The Week in Review: June 14th – June 21st
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 21.06.24
June 21 - The six political candidates nominated to run in Iran’s upcoming presidential elections on June 28 set out their economic policies in a televised debate on Monday in...
The Week in Review: July 23rd – July 30th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 30.07.21
Negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal continued to stall this week. Washington said Tehran had not yet agreed to come back to compliance with the current agreement as a...
Nobel Prizewinner Shirin Ebadi Joins Campaign To Ban Iran From International Sporting Events
By Natasha Phillips
Shirin Ebadi, a former judge who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for pioneering the rights of children, women and refugees in Iran, has joined a campaign led by human-rights activists and athletes to ban the Islamic...
German-Iranian Hostage Taghavi Released in Iran; France Says Its Hostage Has Been Tortured
By Natasha Phillips
Nahid Taghavi, a 70-year-old German-Iranian women’s rights campaigner who was arrested in Tehran in October 2020 while on a visit to the country, was released from prison in Iran and returned to...
The Week in Review: December 29th – January 5th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 05.01.24
Jan. 5 - A senior Houthi official, Mohammad Abdul Salam has thanked Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian for the Iranian regime’s “strong” support of Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas war.
The officials...
The Week in Review: February 17th – February 24th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 24.02.23
Feb. 24 - A network made up of more than 40 unofficial torture centers and secret prisons used by Iran’s government to torture and imprison anti-government protesters was revealed by...
Islamic Republic’s Threats Against Lawyers Discussed at London Law Society Conference
By Natasha Phillips
An exiled Iranian lawyer who previously worked in Iran described the dangers of practicing law in the Islamic Republic during a Jan. 24 Iran human rights conference held at the Law Society...
The Week in Review: January 29th – February 5th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 05.02.21
Iran’s government announced that it would be taking delivery of more than 4 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine this week, despite a ban on U.S. and British made...
The Week in Review: February 5th – February 12th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 12.02.21
Iran’s government produced uranium metal in breach of the 2015 nuclear deal it is signed up to, after being warned by Western powers to scale back its plans to do...
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...
