{"id":27457,"date":"2026-03-19T13:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=27457"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:00:41","slug":"ian-wereley-adjunct-research-professor-department-of-history-carleton-university-published-a-piece-in-the-conversation-on-the-history-of-oil-and-imperialism-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2026\/ian-wereley-adjunct-research-professor-department-of-history-carleton-university-published-a-piece-in-the-conversation-on-the-history-of-oil-and-imperialism-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Wereley Adjunct Research Professor, Department of History, Carleton University published a piece in the Conversation on the history of oil and imperialism in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Ian Wereley Adjunct Research Professor, Department of History, Carleton University published a piece in the Conversation on the history of oil and imperialism in Iran\n <\/h1>\n \n \n \n\n

Ian Wereley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adjunct Research Professor, Department of History, Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

With the recent outbreak of hostilities in the Persian Gulf, the focus of international attention has returned to one of the world\u2019s most important energy chokepoints: the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil passes through this narrow strait. Its closure, alongside U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran\u2019s oil infrastructure<\/a> \u2014 including the strategic export hub on Kharg Island<\/a> \u2014 has raised fears of a protracted conflict as fuel prices soar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most news coverage and analysis has focused on the immediate threats posed by missiles<\/a>, drones and mines<\/a>, and the global implications of the strait\u2019s closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But beneath these headlines lies a much deeper story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than a century, Iran has occupied a powerful place in the western imagination, characterized as a volatile region that sits atop one of the world\u2019s largest oil reserves<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working within the energy humanities<\/a> sub-field, my research<\/a> and teaching focus on the early history of oil in Iran and the development of western oil cultures during the early 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full article: https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-west-has-long-characterized-irans-oil-as-a-prize-to-be-claimed-278379<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the recent outbreak of hostilities in the Persian Gulf, the focus of international attention has returned to one of the world\u2019s most important energy chokepoints: the Strait of Hormuz. Roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil passes through this narrow strait. Its closure, alongside U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran\u2019s oil infrastructure \u2014 including the strategic export hub on Kharg Island \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":27458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27459,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27457\/revisions\/27459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}