Kamran Dadkhah

Iran with having adequate investment could increase its oil production to 6 million barrels a day (bpd) and export 4.5 million bpd, a professor of economics at U.S. Northeastern University Kamran Dadkhah believes. Dadkhah told Trend that Iran could increase its oil production after the sanctions are lifted but the addition volumes cannot be substantial. […]

An economist from Northeastern University, Dr. Kamran Dadkhah, stated that if sanctions were lifted, Iran could export 1 million more barrels daily. Ilan Goldenberg, director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), whose credentials include being a part of the noted anti-Israel leftist group J Street’s National […]

While Iran’s current oil production is about 2.8 million barrels per day, Middle Eastern economies expert Dr. Kamran Dadkhah said only about 1 million barrels per day are exported. But a nuclear deal with the country would most likely ease Western sanctions, allowing Iran to increase oil exports. “Right now if the sanctions were removed, […]

Until Thursday, Iranians could purchase up to 16 gallons of gas for just $0.45 per gallon. Now, they are paying $0.83 and, after the first 16 gallons, they’ll pay $1.17 a gallon. That’s because the government is cutting part of the subsidy it provided for gas in an attempt to improve the economy. While the […]

Iran has enlisted celebrities, from actors to politicians to athletes, in a campaign to help the government save the ailing economy. The campaign called “No to Subsidies” is a brainchild of a key adviser to President Hasan Rouhani and encourages Iranians to turn down government cash handouts that replaced energy and food subsidies a few […]

Iran has great oil and gas resources, therefore Western and indeed all international companies do not want to lose the opportunity to do business with Iran, professor of economics at U.S. Northeastern University, Kamran Dadkhah told Trend. “This is of course, if the country’s nuclear issue is resolved and sanctions are lifted,” he added. Iran […]

There seems to be pessimism in the air regarding the economic prospects of the West and by extension the world. In its recent report, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) revised downward its estimates of growth for many countries. It lowered the overall growth rate forecast of the Euro Zone for 2013 and […]

Kamran Dadkhah, an associate professor at Northeastern University who has studied the Iranian economy, said Iran’s oil industry has been left behind as technology has improved because there’s been no real investment in Iran’s oil fields in decades. For instance, he said, the lack of investment means Iran’s oil wells aren’t well maintained. “If the […]

IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards) may object to any type of arrangement that entails ownership of the oil and gas fields or their revenues by a foreign company, professor of economics at U.S. Northeastern University, Kamran Dadkhah told Trend. He was commenting on the possibility of foreign companies coming back to Iran, for investing in country’s […]

Pr.Kamran Dadkhah’s exclusive article for Trend. Iranian origin economist Dadkhah is associate professor in the department of economics at Northeastern University, Boston. Finding reliable data on the Iranian economy has become increasingly more difficult. The data on government debt to Bank Markazi (the central bank) is reported in the annual balance sheet and economic report […]