When the Internet Went Dark, the Killing Began
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
More than a week ago, the Islamic Republic plunged Iran into digital darkness. Under the cover of this shutdown, the state launched a bloody crackdown. Doctors across the country received...
Fear Changes Sides
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
By Thursday, January 1, protests that erupted on Sunday, December 28, had spread to more than 72 cities across Iran, stitching together a geography of dissent that runs from the...
Shadow of War Looms Over the ‘supreme leader’
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Islamic Republic is navigating one of its most precarious periods in more than four decades.
Diplomatic paralysis, economic pressure, and deep public resentment are threatening not only the clerical state’s...
X Update Reveals IRGC Cyberarmy
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
A routine update to X’s About This Account tool—now revealing where and how users log in— spotlighted one of the Islamic Republic’s worst-kept secrets: a two-tiered internet system. One offers a free, unfiltered...
Can The Ayatollah’s Nuclear Sprint Be Stopped?
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
Will the latest resolution by the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors be enough to halt the Islamic Republic’s sprint towards a nuclear weapon? The vote delivered a reminder that the...
Death Roams Iran’s Streets, the Islamic Republic Barely Blinks
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
Air pollution has tightened its grip on Iran’s cities with the lethality of the Grim Reaper. This is a public-health emergency claiming tens of thousands of lives every year.
According to...
Ears Plugged, Nukes Primed
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
Ayatollah Khamenei has perfected the art of strategic deafness. It’s his preferred method of tuning out the global chorus calling for compliance, cooperation, or even mild compromise.
For years, he has...
Diplomacy on a Plank
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
In the latest episode of the Islamic Republic’s long-running political drama, the supreme cleric marches resolutely toward the void — cane in hand, finger raised skyward — as if...
Shuffling Toward Sanctions, Mumbling Uranium
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By: Kayhan Life Staff
The so-called supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, emerged Tuesday night for another televised monologue. Frail, isolated, and visibly clinging to the scraps of his authority, Khamenei once...
Tehran’s Delay Tactics Run Out of Time
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By: Kayhan Life Staff
The Islamic Republic has once again run out of rope on its most practiced diplomatic strategy: pretending to negotiate while doing nothing. On Friday, the U.N. Security Council declined to...
