Iranians have been growing increasingly anxious amid threats of military action by the Trump administration but say they are already struggling with daily life in a war economy regardless of Continue Reading
With tensions rising between Iran and the U.S. in recent days, amid concerns about a potential U.S.-Iran conflict, is there a chance the two countries could talk directly? WSJ’s Gerald Continue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attend a news conference, after a meeting in the Black sea resort of Sochi on 14 February, 2019 [File: Reuters/Sergei Chirikov] Continue Reading
Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia has raised production in May, a Reuters survey found, but not by enough to compensate for lower Iranian exports which collapsed after the United States Continue Reading
The United States will sanction any country which buys oil from Iran after the expiration of waivers on May 2, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said on Thursday. Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf, saying it was an effort by Tehran to raise the global price Continue Reading
Khurmala Dome accounts for one-third of Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil output; the federal North Oil Company, which controlled the field until 2008, is taking legal action to reclaim it. Then-KRG Prime Continue Reading
Japan cut its Iranian crude oil imports by 51.6% month on month to 141,712 b/d in April before the expiry of US sanction waivers on May 2, according to data Continue Reading
China’s CNPC Capital, the financial arm of state energy giant China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), said on Friday that a unit cited by a U.S. official this week as owning Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has not made a decision on extending a 90-day U.S. waiver exempting Iraq from sanctions to buy energy from Iran, a State Department spokeswoman Continue Reading
