Reuters reports that Iran recently made a major oil discovery, finding an oil field that has estimated reserves of 38 billion barrels of oil. If true, that would make it one of the world’s largest undeveloped oil fields.
Reuters quoted Iran’s Oil Development and Engineering Company general director Abolhasan Khamoushi as saying that the vast oil […]
After the Iranian revolution in 1979 and the subsequent war with Iraq, Iran’s radical Islamic regime explicitly sought an increase in the population of Iran and succeeded too well. In the decade from 1976 to 1986, the population if Iran increased by 50 percent.
At that rate of growth, Iran’s population would have reached 108 million […]
A recent conference on the status of the Caspian Sea area highlighted the ongoing lack of development due to corruption and a lack of any stable structure determining who has development rights over the area.
Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, control of the Caspian Sea was divided between Iran and the USSR. Currently […]