Iran’s parliament has lowered the government’s oil export target from 2.3 million to 1.5 million to manage expectations, news agency ISNA reported Jan 2. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes Continue Reading
The Pentagon said on Sunday that it had ordered the aircraft carrier Nimitz to remain in the Middle East because of Iranian threats against President Trump and other American officials, Continue Reading
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday accused U.S. President Donald Trump of attempting to fabricate a pretext to attack Iran, and said Tehran would defend itself forcefully. Separately, Continue Reading
Iran will use part of the proceeds from its electricity and natural gas exports to Iraq to buy COVID-19 vaccines from Europe, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday, quoting Energy Continue Reading
The U.S. military is bracing for a possible attack on American personnel and interests in Iraq, U.S. defense officials said, days before the first anniversary of an American drone strike Continue Reading
Iran has reduced exports of natural gas to its neighbor Iraq claiming the latter owed it more than $6 billion for supplies already made. The cuts were made two weeks Continue Reading
Alongside the continued development of its huge West Karoun oil fields , the completion of the supergiant South Pars non-associated gas offshore sector (including the implementation of Phase 11 operations Continue Reading
Iraq is set to suffer from acute power shortages as Iran plans to cut its gas shipments to its neighbor due to outstanding payments, the electricity ministry said in a Continue Reading
Iran has slashed the amount of natural gas it exports to Iraq and threatened further cutbacks over unpaid bills, increasing the likelihood of more electricity shortages in Baghdad and other Continue Reading
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) of Iran unveiled this week the second oceangoing oil tanker it has helped to build, to show that the Islamic Republic has managed to Continue Reading
With an eye on US sanctions relief once US President-elect Joe Biden takes office, Iran’s leaders have ordered its oil sector to prepare to ramp up production and exports in Continue Reading
Iranian oil minister Bijan Zanganeh has urged Russia to boost ties with Tehran in the face of US sanctions and praised the country’s role in helping to stabilize global crude Continue Reading
With an eye on US sanctions relief once US President-elect Joe Biden takes office, Iran’s leaders have ordered its oil sector to prepare to ramp up production and exports in Continue Reading
Nearly a year after the U.S. airstrike that killed a revered Iranian military leader, a senior American general said that Tehran is still considering retaliatory steps, raising the possibility of Continue Reading
Drilling operations of the first well of the game-changing but highly-controversial Phase 11 of Iran’s supergiant South Pars non-associated natural gas field officially began last week. Significant gas recovery from Continue Reading
Iran has stated its interest in attracting investments from Russian oil companies to help develop its oilfields, Russia’s TASS news agency said on Monday, quoting Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh. Continue Reading
In the last decade, the humble Strait of Hormuz has seen a fifth of the world’s oil supply, a third of all liquefied natural gas (LNG), and a third of Continue Reading
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday that he has “no doubt” the incoming U.S. administration will rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal and remove punishing sanctions on Iran’s economy. His remarks Continue Reading
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei held his first public function on Wednesday since rumours surfaced of his deteriorating health, Iranian state media reported. Khamenei met organisers of events to Continue Reading
On the high end, U.S.-based TankerTrackers.com, which uses satellite imagery to follow deliveries, estimated Iranian crude oil exports hit 1.2 million barrels a day over the fall, up from 481,000 Continue Reading
A ruptured pipeline arterial to Iran’s refining system has been repaired but yet to become operational again, the oil ministry news service reported Dec. 14. The Marun-Isfahan conduit broke Dec. Continue Reading
Iran has brought a fire caused by an oil pipeline spill under control, local media reported . An oil pipeline ruptured on Sunday because of a landslide in southwestern Iran, Continue Reading
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in a direct appeal to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, said his country was willing to return to full compliance with its nuclear deal with world powers Continue Reading
A major crude oil pipeline in southwest Iran has burst, setting fire to surrounding farms and lands, state news agency IRNA reported Dec. 13. The 30-inch Marun-Isfahan pipeline, with six Continue Reading
Iran is planning to produce 4.5 million b/d of crude oil and condensate in its next year that starts March 21 and export 2.3 million b/d of it if current Continue Reading
Iranian authorities seem confident they could be able to sell as much as 2.3 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in the next Iranian year that begins in March Continue Reading
Iraqi police stand near a poster of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. strike nearly a year ago. Tensions between Iran and the United States have Continue Reading
The killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist last month was carried out remotely with artificial intelligence and a machine gun equipped with a “satellite-controlled smart system”, Tasnim news agency quoted Continue Reading
An official close to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denied rumours on social media about the top authority’s deteriorating health, the semi official Fars news agency reported on Continue Reading
The top U.S. Navy official in the Mideast said Sunday that America has reached an “uneasy deterrence” with Iran after months of regional attacks and seizures at sea, even as Continue Reading
Iran is ramping up oil production capacity in a bid to raise crude sales under US President-elect Joe Biden’s administration after Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign to curb the country’s Continue Reading
Iran is sending its biggest fleet yet of tankers to Venezuela in defiance of U.S. sanctions to help the isolated nation weather a crippling fuel shortage, according to people with Continue Reading
Iran plans to install hundreds more advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges at an underground plant in breach of its deal with major powers, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report showed on Friday, a Continue Reading
President-Elect Joe Biden has long signaled he’ll seek US reentry into participation in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, or JCPOA, brokered under the prior Obama administration. On Thursday Iran issued Continue Reading
What is the Iran nuclear deal? Iran will not accept preconditions from a new Biden administration over its nuclear programme and the US must return to a 2015 deal before Continue Reading
President-Elect Joe Biden has long signaled he’ll seek US reentry into participation in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, or JCPOA, brokered under the prior Obama administration. On Thursday Iran issued Continue Reading
Centrifuges in the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in central Iran last year.Credit…Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, via Associated Press Iran passed a law on Wednesday to immediately begin enriching uranium Continue Reading
In September, a senior Iranian commander made an unannounced visit to one of Shi’ite Islam’s holiest sites in the southern Iraqi city of Kerbala. Hassan Pelarak, a top officer in Continue Reading
Iran’s Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit Continue Reading
A bill requiring Iran’s government to suspend nuclear inspections unless sanctions are lifted, and ignore other restraints on its nuclear program agreed with major powers, was passed by the hardline-led Continue Reading
Iran’s parliament has approved plans to dramatically increase its nuclear enrichment program in contravention of its agreement with global powers as the Islamic regime reels from the aftermath of the Continue Reading
Iranian lawmakers urged the Rouhani government to restrict United Nations inspections of its nuclear activities and boost uranium enrichment, following the killing last week of a top nuclear scientist. On Continue Reading
Humiliated by the killing of a top nuclear scientist, Iranian officials sought this week to rewrite the attack as an episode of science fiction: Israel had executed him entirely by Continue Reading
President-elect Joe Biden has said he plans for the U.S. to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal he helped establish under the Obama administration in 2015. WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib explains Continue Reading
Commentators, brushing past Israel’s refusal to comment on an assassination that showed the hallmarks of an Israeli clandestine operation, have moved on to asking what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Continue Reading
A senior Iranian official said on Monday an opposition group was suspected alongside Israel in the killing of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist, an attack that has raised the prospect Continue Reading
President-elect Joe Biden has said he plans for the U.S. to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal he helped establish under the Obama administration in 2015. WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib explains Continue Reading
The hit squad behind last week’s deadly attack on the man long thought to be the mastermind of Iran’s alleged military nuclear program left nothing to chance. As nuclear scientist Mohsen Continue Reading
With the assassination by Israel of Iran’s top nuclear warhead designer, the Middle East is promising to complicate Joe Biden’s job from day one. President-elect Biden knows the region well, Continue Reading
ran will give a “calculated and decisive” response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist, said a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, while a hardline newspaper suggested Tehran’s Continue Reading
