Tehran University Football Teams Refuse to Play After Female Fans Banned From Match
By Kayhan Life Staff
Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) football teams refused to play their match after university security removed female spectators from the stadium, according to social media posts by several student activists...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s Workers Struggle With Low or Unpaid Wages, Fixed-Term Contracts
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iranian workers face serious challenges, including low wages, fixed-term contracts, unsafe workplace environments, job insecurity, and a lack of benefits.
Millions of Iranian households live under the poverty line. The current average...
Three Iranian-Born Actresses Are In Competition At 2022 Cannes Film Festival
By Kayhan Life Staff
Three Iranian-born actresses —Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, and Zahra Amir Ebrahimi — have movies in competition for the top prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 17...
Iran-Backed Militias Replace Russian Troops in Syria, Report Says
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iran-backed militias have filled the vacuum created after Russian troops and local paramilitary units under their control withdrew from several strategic regions in Syria, the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported.
The militias,...
Iran’s Missed Opportunity to Revive Oil Industry Following Russia-Ukraine War
By Kayhan Life Staff
Some oil-producing nations have benefited from Russia’s recent military invasion of Ukraine. Iran is not one of them.
Stringent sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine have caused an energy...
Iran May Be Banned from World Football for Barring Women from Stadium Matches
By Kayhan Life Staff
On March 29, authorities in the holy city of Mashhad, the capital of the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi, prevented female football fans from entering a sports stadium to watch a...
Oberlin College Faces Renewed Calls for Removal of Professor Mahallati
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iranian-American protestors returned to Oberlin College in Ohio on March 5 to demand the removal of Professor of Religion and Chair of Middle Eastern and North African Studies Mohammad Jafar Mahallati — Iran’s former...
Iranian Experts Discover Cuneiform Tablet Dating Back to Reign of Xerxes I
By Kayhan Life Staff
Experts at the Takhte Jamshid World Heritage’s Research Center for Paleography — the study of historical writing — have discovered a limestone tablet written in cuneiform inside the archives of the...
Jailed Human Rights Lawyer Soheila Hejab Hospitalized, Report Says
By Kayhan Life Staff
On Feb. 24, authorities reportedly transferred Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Soheila Hejab from Kermanshah Prison to a hospital after she fell seriously ill, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists in...
Iranian Authorities Arrest Teenager Suspected of Fraud Using Fake Credentials
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Iranian authorities have arrested Mehrshad Soheili, a 17-year-old suspected of running a fraudulent scheme, according to Ainollah Niazifar, the head of the Judiciary for Dasht Abbas and Mousian, in the...
