Interview with ITV television
A former Durham University professor has alleged that a research project was used by America to gather intelligence on an enemy country.
Interview with BBC WORLD NEWS Channel
Interview with BBC WORLD NEWS Channel
Interview with BBC Radio 5
Interview with BBC Radio 4
Academic: ‘I saw jail as a fact-finding mission’
A FORMER North-East academic jailed as a political prisoner in his native Iran has been freed and returned to the UK, The Northern Echo can reveal. Reza Molavi, a former head of Durham University’s Centre for Iranian Studies, has revealed how he had his passport seized on trying to return to the UK in June 2010, was arrested at his Tehran home the next morning and detained at the […]
Oil and Gas Privatisation in Iran
iran is the fourth biggest producer of oil in the world, and its coastline stretches the entire length of the Persian Gulf, one of the world’s most strategic waterways in terms of energy security. The establishment of the Islamic Republic after the 1979 Revolution paved the way for religious clerics to gain ultimate political control […]
OIL AND NATURAL GAS PIPELINES TO EUROPE
OIL AND NATURAL GAS PIPELINES TO EUROPE ALI EMAMI MEIBODI (PH.D.)1 – SYED SHABBER ALI2 Europe’s growing and seemingly insatiable need for a study supply of fuel to maintain its industrialized status including the so-called European standard of living’ requires a flow of oil/gas from diversified sources without putting all eggs in one basket in […]
The international politics of peak oil and energy policy
Written by Reza Molavi and K. Luisa Gandolfo on July 28, 2009 – 19:34 The impact of oil scarcity in relation to the global economy and power balance: peak oil and energy policy
Iran needs to be “part of the solution”
As the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution (Sunday, February 1), approaches Dr Reza Molavi, said Iran needed to “be part of the solution”, particularly in relation to meeting the world’s energy needs. February 1, 1979, saw the return of the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini to Iran, sparking the revolution that established the current Islamic Republic. […]