Iran’s Invitation to Host UN Rapporteur on Sanctions Is a ‘Trick,’ Shirin Ebadi Says
By Natasha Phillips
Iranian Nobel Laureate and Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said an upcoming visit to Iran in May by Dr. Alena Douhan -- the UN’s Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures -- had...
The Week in Reveiw: April 15th – April 22nd
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 22.04.22
April 22 - A United Nations Special Rapporteur charged with looking at the impact of sanctions on countries is set to visit Iran in May.
The UN Human Rights Office said...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Violated Women in Evin Prison, Former Political Prisoner Says
By Natasha Phillips
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards raped women detainees in Evin prison during official visits to the jail in 2009, according to former political prisoner Marziyeh Amirizadeh.
Amirizadeh was arrested and imprisoned in 2009 for converting...
The Week in Review: April 8th – April 15th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 15.04.22
April 15 - Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the government had agreed a preliminary deal to release frozen funds held abroad in a news conference on Wednesday.
Several billion dollars...
The Week in Review: April 1st – April 8th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 08.04.22
April 8 - The Iranian government has reached an agreement which would allow a “considerable amount” of its assets frozen in overseas accounts to be released, according to an unnamed...
#10 Kayhan Life Podcasts: Interview with Patrick Wintour
By Natasha Phillips
KayhanLife · #10 Kayhan Life Podcasts: Interview with Patrick Wintour
After spending almost six years in detention in Iran, the British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was freed on March 17. On the same day the...
The Week in Review: March 25th – April 1st
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 01.04.22
April 1 - Political analysts in Iran accused Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi of being unable to bring about fiscal reform and lift the country out of its economic crisis.
Iran is...
ANALYSIS: UN Urged to Address Iran’s Human Rights Violations
By Natasha Phillips
Leading human rights organizations have called on the United Nations to address alleged human rights violations in Iran. The appeal was made in a March 24 letter addressed to member states of...
The Week in Review: March 18th – March 25th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 25.03.22
March 25 - Concerns raised by the Iranian government that the war in Ukraine could affect Iran’s food supply and push up the price of goods were revealed by a...
UK Parliament Is Urged to Open Inquiry Into Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Detention
By Natasha Phillips
Tulip Siddiq, the UK Member of Parliament representing the freed British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has asked the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee to review the reasons why it took six years to release her constituent.
Siddiq made the announcement at...
