Features
Getty Villa’s Open-Air Persian Concerts Feature Fared Shafinury, Awardwinning Setar Virtuoso
By Fred Parvaneh
On June 25, 2022, Farhang Foundation, a nonprofit organization established to celebrate and...
Iran Arrests Four Female Vocalists; Women Face More and More Constraints
By Kayhan Life Staff
Authorities in Minab, in the southern province of Hormozgan, arrested four female...
INTERVIEW: Israeli-Iranian Singer Liraz Charhi to Debut Her Album “Zan” In London Concert
By Ahmad Rafat
Liraz Charhi, a 31-year-old Israeli Singer of Iranian descent, will debut her album...
INTERVIEW: Singer Niaz Nawab Fuses Persian Poetry With Western Sound
By Fred Parvaneh
Niaz Nawab is an Iranian-born singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, and music teacher currently...
INTERVIEW: Hollywood Soundtrack Composer, Niyaz Founder Loga Ramin Torkian
By Fred Parvaneh
Loga Ramin Torkian is an Iranian-born instrumentalist and composer and co-founder of the...
Singing About Hijab: Pop Vocalist Golazin Speaks to Kayhan Life
By Ahmad Rafat
Golazin Ardestani, better known as “Golazin” or “Gola,” is an Iranian-born Trap pop...
Googoosh Embarks on World Tour, Releases Album 21 Years After Her Comeback
By Nazanine Nouri
Googoosh, one of the most influential Iranian pop artists of all time and...
EXCLUSIVE: The Sweet Destiny of Arash Sobhani, The Kiosk Band Leader Speaks to Kayhan Life
By Ahmad Rafat
Arash Sobhani is the founder of the pioneering Iranian rock group Kiosk. An...
Half-Iranian Eurovision Contestant Barbara Pravi Draws Comparisons With Edith Piaf
By Nazanine Nouri
Barbara Pravi is a half-Serbian, half-Iranian singer-songwriter who finished second in the Eurovision...
Silenced Musicians of Iran Come Together on Homanity Album
Music in Iran dates back thousands of years. Archeological records from the 3rd millennium BC...
“Exiles from Paradise”: Novelist Brigitte Adès Explores the Life of Iranians in the West
By Firouzeh Nabavi
Brigitte Adès is a French journalist and author who, for the past 25 years, has been the UK bureau chief of the...
Jewish-Iranian Industrialist Habib Elghanian Is Remembered in Granddaughter’s Book: Interview
By Nazanine Nouri
Habib Elghanian was one of the most prominent industrialists in pre-revolutionary Iran. From modest beginnings, he worked his way up to running...
Life At the Italian Embassy in Tehran: Ambassador’s Daughter Writes Graphic Novel
By Ahmad Rafat
Chiara Mezzalama has a special relationship with Iran: She moved there two years after the 1979 Revolution when her father, Francesco Mezzalama,...
Iranian-Born Journalist Farah Nayeri Releases Book on Art and Censorship
By Natasha Phillips
Artists are regularly monitored and censored nowadays in places such as the Middle East and Asia. According to a new book by...
Empress Farah Republishes Pre-Revolution Memoirs, Discusses Them in Harvard Interview
By Nazanine Nouri
“1001 Days: Memoirs of an Empress” is the title of a memoir that Empress Farah Pahlavi wrote in 1976, three years before...
Heritage
Soccer-Iran Reinstates Skocic as Head Coach
DUBAI, July 17 (Reuters) - Dragan Skocic has been reinstated as head coach of Iran after a meeting between the board of directors of the Iranian Football Federation and its technical committee, semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.
Skocic's dismissal had been reported on Monday, prompting widespread criticism among...
Soccer-Skocic Dismissed as Iran Coach – IRNA
July 11 (Reuters) - Dragan Skocic has been dismissed as Iran head coach with little more than four months to go to the World Cup finals in Qatar, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
It said that Iran's football federation had decided to dismiss the 53-year-old, adding that "there are unconfirmed reports that several Iranian candidates have a good...
Empress Farah Urges FIFA to Defend Iranian Women’s Right to Watch Sports Events
By Kayhan Life Staff
Empress Farah Pahlavi has called on Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) president, to use the forthcoming Qatar World Cup 2022 to advocate for Iranian women’s rights to watch sports events.
Qatar will host the World Cup 2022 between...
Iranian Women’s National Taekwondo Team Wins the 2022 Asian Championships
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iranian women’s national taekwondo team won first place at the 2022 Asian Taekwondo Championships, taking home three gold, two silver, and one bronze model, and scoring a historic achievement in women’s sports.
Nahid Kiani (bantamweight -53 kg), Zahra Pouresmaeil (middleweight -73 kg),...
Soccer-‘Match of the Century’, Iran’s History Man Mahdavikia Recalls US Clash
By Michael Church
HONG KONG, June 22 (Reuters) - More than two decades have passed since Iran's Mehdi Mahdavikia famously sealed a 2-1 victory over the United States but the thrill of delivering his country their first ever World Cup win has not faded.
Tuesday marked the 24th...
Soccer- Wales Joins Iran in World Cup Group
By Simon Evans
CARDIFF, June 6 (Reuters) - It has been 62 years since Wales last appeared in the World Cup finals but their interim manager Rob Page believes his side can make a real impact in Qatar and progress from their group.
Wales beat Ukraine 1-0 in...
Tehran Abstains on UN Resolution on the Right to a Clean...
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Tehran Grants Bail to British-Iranian Environmentalist on Security Charges – Lawyer
DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) - Iran has granted bail to British-Iranian environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, who has been convicted of security offences, his lawyer was quoted as saying by...
Iran Can Prevent Water Scarcity Predicted by UN Agency, Official Says
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iran will face water stress by 2025 and water scarcity by 2040, the Tehran-based Hamshahri newspaper reported on June 26, quoting...
The Struggle to Save Iraq’s Last Persian Leopards
By Charlotte Bruneau and Mohammed Jalal
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, April 21 (Reuters) - Tying a camera trap around a tree trunk on Bamo mountain in Iraq's...
ANALYSIS: As Iran Faces “Water Bankruptcy”, Drought Exposes Past Problems, Future...
By Maya Gebeily
BEIRUT, July 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Severe water shortages in Iran in recent weeks have prompted electricity outages and even sparked deadly protests,...
Youth Killed in Iran Water Crisis Protests
DUBAI, July 17 (Reuters) - A young man was shot dead during a second night of protests over water shortages in southwest Iran, a local official...
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell
GAZA/JERUSALEM, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza while the militant Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel on Saturday as a cross-border clash continued into a second day, killing at least...
DUBAI, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Iran seeks revival of a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, the Iranian foreign minister said on Sunday, adding that success of indirect talks between Tehran and the United States depended on Washington's flexibility, Iranian state...
JERUSALEM, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Israeli officials say air strikes on Gaza have targeted the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement rather than Hamas, the militant group which rules the enclave. What is the difference between the two groups? Read full story
The PIJ...
Aug 5 (Reuters) - Russia's envoy to talks on reviving Iran's 2015 nuclear deal said on Friday they had resumed in a "serious" atmosphere even as few expect a breakthrough compromise while Tehran's disputed uranium enrichment programme surges forward.
Indirect talks between Tehran...
By Natasha Phillips
At least 251 people were executed in Iran between Jan. 1 and June 30, according to research by Amnesty International and the Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran (ABC).
An estimated 45 people were executed...
DUBAI, July 19 (Reuters) - Award-winning Iranian film director Jafar Panahi will serve a six-year prison sentence originally issued by a Tehran court in 2010, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday, amid a stepped-up crackdown on dissent in the Islamic Republic.
Panahi was...
By Kayhan Life Staff
Girls and women across Iran removed their headscarves in public, defying the mandatory hijab rule on July 12, designated as “Hijab and Chastity Day” by the Islamic Republic.
The day marks the anniversary of a large protest...
By Simon Johnson and Johan Ahlander
STOCKHOLM, July 14 (Reuters) - A Swedish court sentenced a former Iranian official to life in prison on Thursday for his part in the mass execution and torture of political prisoners in the 1980s.
Hamid Noury, 61,...
3 July 2022
Alexander De Croo
Prime Minister of Belgium
Rue de la Loi 16 BE-1000 Brussels
Mr Prime Minister
Prisoners swap between the Belgium Kingdom and Islamic Republic of Iran
Your government's proposed bill that authorizes the transfer of convicted criminals between the Islamic...
Honourable Alexander De Croo, Belgium Prime Minister
[email protected]
Tel: +32 2 501 02 11
Fax: +32 2 512 69 53July 2, 2022
July 5, 2022
Dear Prime Minister De Croo,
We write you in regard to the disturbing extradition treaty currently pending ratification before the...
London (19 January 2022): To honour the life of one of its founders, Persia Educational Foundation formally launched the Abdolreza Ansari Scholarship on Human Rights Day, marking the first anniversary of his passing.
The webinar included distinguished panellists including well-known...
By Kayhan Life Staff
Ardeshir Zahedi, Iran’s Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1971 and its onetime ambassador to Washington and London, died in Montreux, Switzerland, on Nov. 18, aged 93. The family of “Ardeshir Khan,” as he was called by...
