UN Declines Comment on Iran’s Election to Its Gender Equality Commission
By Natasha Phillips
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) — an international body established to promote gender equality — declined to comment on Iran’s election to its Commission on the Status of...
The Week in Review: April 23rd – April 30th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 30.04.21
Iran called for the creation of a prisoner exchange program with the United States, as talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between the countries and other parties to the...
UK Court Postponement Complicates Release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Husband Says
By Natasha Phillips
A British court has postponed hearings due to take place in April on the $550 million that the U.K. owes Iran, potentially complicating the release of the detained British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
The High...
The Week in Review: April 9th – April 16th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 16.04.21
Iran and major world powers hoping to revive the 2015 nuclear deal held another round of talks on Thursday. The negotiations followed Tehran’s decision to increase its Uranium enrichment to...
Iran’s Religious Minorities Are Focus of New Online Magazine MVoices Iran
By Natasha Phillips
A new online magazine, MVoices Iran, is shedding light on religious minorities and the discrimination that they face in the country. The magazine describes itself as the first publication of its kind.
Iran, which has been an Islamic...
The Week in Review: April 2nd- April 9th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 09.04.21
Diplomats from Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia met Iran and the U.S. separately in Vienna on Tuesday to discuss how to bring both countries back to compliance with the...
Nasrin Sotoudeh, ‘Iran’s Mandela,’ Is Focus of New Documentary
By Natasha Phillips
A documentary telling the story of the acclaimed Iranian human rights lawyer and activist Nasrin Sotoudeh offers a rare glimpse into Iran, and the ongoing fight for women’s equality in the country.
“Nasrin” follows Sotoudeh...
The Week in Review: March 26th – April 2nd
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 02.04.21
A virtual meeting between Iran, Britain, Germany, China and Russia to discuss the possibility of reviving the nuclear deal took place on Friday, ending a months-long deadlock which had halted...
UK Must Push For Release of British-Iranian Mehran Raoof, Amnesty International Says
By Natasha Phillips
The British government must include the unjustly detained British-Iranian Mehran Raoof in its efforts to free other British-Iranians such as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, Amnesty International has said.
Raoof, a 64-year-old labor...
The Week in Review: March 19th – March 26th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 26.03.21
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stepped up its recruitment efforts in the Syrian region of Deir Zour, according to residents in the area.
The location, which is a gateway for Iran’s...
