The Week in Review: January 15th – January 22nd
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 22.01.21
United States President Joe Biden said negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran through diplomacy would be included in his first set of discussions as president.
The U.S. president, who was sworn...
International Olympic Committee Must Condemn Iranian Wrestler’s Sentencing, British Lawmaker Says
By Natasha Phillips
Iran’s judiciary has sentenced the 29-year-old wrestler Mehdi Ali Hosseini to death in a move that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is yet to denounce. The IOC’s silence has been called “cowardly,”...
The Week in Review: January 8th – January 15th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 15.01.21
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Iranian government had given al Qaeda a new home base in Iran this week, and announced publicly for the first time...
Twitter Should Ban Ayatollah Khamenei, Says Iranian Human Rights Activist Masih Alinejad
By Natasha Phillips
Twitter should remove accounts belonging to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for repeatedly violating the platform’s policies, human rights activist Masih Alinejad has said.
Ms. Alinejad, the founder of My Stealthy Freedom,...
The Week in Review: January 1st – January 8th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 08.01.21
The Iranian government said it had resumed its Uranium enrichment programme at an underground nuclear facility, taking its levels up to 20%, in breach of terms set out in the...
New Database Tracks Iran’s Human Rights Violations Since 1979
By Natasha Phillips
Evidence linking Iranian officials and organizations to human rights violations in Iran has been shared in a new database produced by London-based charity Justice for Iran.
The database, entitled “Faces of Crime,” was launched...
The Week in Review: December 25th – January 1st
By Natasha Phillips
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 01.01.21
The possibility of an attack in Iraq by the Iranian government on the eve of the anniversary of General Qasem Soleimani’s assassination left U.S. government officials divided this...
Britain Has Legal Duty To Protect Detained Dual Nationals, Lawyer Geoffrey Robertson Says
By Natasha Phillips
A statement made in a letter by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s lawyers that neither the Foreign Office or the British government have a legal duty...
The Week in Review: December 18th – December 25th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 25.12.20
Security agencies in the United States said they had received highly credible information this week that Iranian hackers had created a website which featured death threats aimed at U.S. election...
The Week in Review: December 11th – December 18th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 18.12.20
The UN’s atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi, said a nuclear deal with Iran in 2021 would need to be redrafted in order to address the Islamic Republic’s ongoing breaches of...
