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,”...
Threats Against Iran Journalists in Britain ‘Unprecedented,’ Says UK Head of Reporters Without Borders
By Natasha Phillips
Threats faced by journalists reporting about Iran from abroad are “unprecedented,” said Fiona O’Brien, the London Bureau Director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) during an April 17 online event to launch its report on...
Survey of 50,000 Iranians Finds Almost Half Are No Longer Religious
By Natasha Phillips
A survey of 50,000 Iranians has found that nearly half of respondents said they had lost their faith and were no longer religious.
The survey, which was published in June by the Netherlands-based Group for Analyzing...
Nazanin Boniadi, Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Discuss Iran at One Young World Summit
By Natasha Phillips
The British-Iranian actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi and the former political prisoner Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, discussed the plight of political prisoners in Iran during the One Young World Summit in Munich on Nov....
Flash Briefing: September 5, 2025
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 05.09.25
Sep. 5 - Israel said it monitored and targeted the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military officials and nuclear scientists through their bodyguards’ phones for several years, as new details emerged...
British Parliament Hosts First-Ever Persian New Year Event
By Natasha Phillips
The British Parliament held an event to mark the Iranian and Kurdish new year (Nowruz) on March 21, the first such celebration ever to be held by the Speaker of the House in...
Flash Briefing: Nov. 23, 2024
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 23.11.24
Nov. 23 - The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity relating...
Flash Briefing: November 21, 2025
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 21.11.25
Nov. 21 - The Islamic Republic of Iran said it was willing to resume negotiations with the United States over its nuclear program as long as its red lines were...
The Week in Review: December 22nd – December 29th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 29.12.23
Dec. 29 - A controversial call to bomb Islamic Revolutionary Guard strongholds in Iran was made by a US Republican lawmaker this week.
Senator Lindsey Graham, who is known for his...
EXCLUSIVE: New UN Rapporteur on Iran to Focus on Gender Inequality, Executions
By Natasha Phillips
Dr. Mai Sato, the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, outlined her priorities in an exclusive interview with Kayhan Life, and said...
