Interview – “Iran in Turmoil and the Clergy in Power: What Next?”
By Nazenin Ansari
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered his first sermon in eight years last Friday. Caught in unprecedented turmoil unleashed by nation-wide protests, and following the loss of his right hand Quds Force commander Qasem...
Women’s Rights & Sexuality in Revolutionary Iran: Interview with Novelist Ingrid Leksand
By Nazenin Ansari
Born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1960, Ingrid Leksand (not the author's real name) moved to the UK with her family when she was five years old. Her father was an engineer whose...
INTERVIEW – “We Will Go After Those in the Regime Who Target ...
By Nazenin Ansari
U.S. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus talks to Kayhan Life’s Nazenin Ansari in Washington, on the U.S.’s policies towards Iran and the Trump Administration's support for anti-government demonstrators in Iran.
In the interview,...
Kayhan Life’s Nazenin Ansari Speaks to the BBC about Olympic Medalist Kimia Alizadeh and...
By Natasha Phillips
Kayhan Life's Nazenin Ansari Tells the BBC's World Service that the defection of Iran's only Female Olympic medalist from the Islamic Republic is a significant development in the movement calling out the...
Yalda, Hanukkah, Christmas, Iran and Europe — in Conversation with Amir Taheri
By Nazenin Ansari
As 2019 comes to a close, Amir Taheri, Chairman of Gatestone Europe and former editor-in-chief of Kayhan, explains the significance of the ancient Persian Yalda celebration as well as Christmas, and Hanukkah...
Swedish MEP’s Bill Calling for an Inquiry Into the Iran Protests is Approved by...
By Nazenin Ansari
Swedish MEP, Charlie Weimers, and his party, the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, launched a Resolution on December 17, which asked the EU to set up an independent inquiry into allegations of violence and...
Wife of British-Iranian Detainee Ashoori Petitions for His Release: Interview
By Nazenin Ansari
The UK government’s failure to recognize that the arbitrary detention of British-Iranians is a form of hostage taking has not helped secure their freedom, according to the wife of one of the...
British-Iranian Voters Courted by UK Labour Party Ahead of Dec. 12 Election
By Nazenin Ansari
Iran has been all but absent from the campaign for the UK general election due on Thursday Dec. 12, despite the nationwide protests and bloodshed in Iran over rising fuel prices. One...
#2 Kayhan Life Podcasts: With Nizar Zakka
Nizar Zakka — a Lebanese citizen and permanent US resident held by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps for nearly four years in Iran — was released in June 2019 after having staged at least...
‘All Totalitarian Rules Eventually End’: An Interview with Reza Pahlavi
By Nazenin Ansari
Since December 2017, workers, teachers, pensioners and ordinary people from all walks of life have been staging protests in cities and towns across Iran. They have been voicing their anger at the...
