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In the aftermath of the oil shock of 1973, Iran's oil revenue suddenly quadrupled to nearly $20 billion a year (equivalent to $130 billion in today’s money). Flushed with new petro-dollars, Iran’s then-leader, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, immediately went on a spending spree to build Iran's economic,

The Islamic Republic has long sent thousands of people to visit the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) in southwestern Iran. These pilgrims, more commonly known as Rahian-e Noor in Persian (the passengers of light), were at the outset part of an ostensibly “grassroot and spontaneous" moveme

In a new IOD survey, a third of Iranian participants have stated that they had experienced power outages in the fall of 2021 when Iran faced sweeping blackouts. The average blackout for the respondents was three hours a day; the data also suggests that 96% of the participants had access to the urban

The Caspian Sea has significant hydrocarbon resources. All Caspian littoral states, namely Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and the Republic of Azerbaijan except Iran have been making billions of dollars by producing the hydrocarbon resources of the Caspian Sea. In 1998, Iran founded Khazar Explora

This data is taken from the table 6 on page 22 of "The experience of selected countries in gas flaring: Lessons for Iran"

This data is taken from the table 2 on page 6 of "The experience of selected countries in gas flaring: Lessons for Iran"

This data is taken from the table on page 3 of "The experience of selected countries in gas flaring: Lessons for Iran"

Cyber attacks are fairly common these days, it happens to international banks and most governmental organisations. However, the Iranian government seems to attract a higher share of cyber attacks than most other countries.The recent cyberattack on Iran’s fuel distribution system caused a lot of pain

In recent years the Islamic Republic has broken with Iran's long tradition of closely supervising its oil and gas exports. This tradition, which dates back to the days of Mohmmad Reza Shah Pahlavi, was perhaps disrupted first during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-2013). After the intern

Business is booming between Iran and Venezuela, as they are expected to sign a 20-year cooperation accord when the Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, visits Tehran in the next few months.Both countries, who are under the U.S. sanctions, have also recently struck a new agreement to swap Venezuela'

In a new nationwide poll by Iran Open Data, 84% of respondents reported access to piped drinking water; a third of whom said they experience water shut offs for more than three hours a day.Water crisis is a global problem. According to the Guardian newspaper, 20% of 41 countries studied around the w

This data is taken from table number 24-14 from page 902 of Natural Gas Supplied to the World Market by OPEC Member Countries.