Friday, January 31, 2025

New UN Rapporteur on Iran Is Expert on Death Penalty

By Natasha Phillips Dr. Mai Sato, an associate professor at the prestigious Monash University in Australia, has been appointed as the next United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran by the UN Human...

ANALYSIS: Iran’s New President Is Unlikely to Alter Nation’s Foreign Policy

By Kayhan Life Staff On July 6, Masoud Pezeshkian was elected president of the 14th government of the Islamic Republic of Iran amidst a muddle of crises across all sectors. Even the most optimistic analysts...
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ANALYSIS: Iran’s New President Masoud Pezeshkian Is No Moderate

By Ahmad Rafat Western governments have eagerly been awaiting the election of a new Iranian president – one who could be perceived as a reformist and moderate figure, and allow them to justify restarting nuclear...
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The Week in Review: July 5th – July 12th

KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 12.07.24 July 12 - The Islamic Republic’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said Tehran was still engaging in indirect talks about its nuclear program with Washington. The discussions, which are being...

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  By Ahmad Barakizadeh  

Iranian Female Labor Activist Faces Death Sentence; Human Rights Group Protests 

By Natasha Phillips A  death sentence pronounced by Iran’s judiciary against Sharifeh Mohammadi, a female Kurdish labor activist, has been “strongly” condemned by the international human rights group Frontline Defenders (FD). Mohammadi was arrested on Dec. 5 on...
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Empress Farah Pahlavi Is Focus of New Book By France’s Frédéric Mitterrand

By Firouzeh Nabavi “Farah” is the title of the last book ever published by Frédéric Mitterrand, a onetime Culture Minister of France and a nephew of President François Mitterrand, who passed away on March 21....
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The Week in Review: June 28th – July 5th

KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 05.07.24 July 5 - The Islamic Republic in Iran threatened to launch an “obliterating war” on Israel, if it invaded Lebanon amid ongoing fighting between the two states. The warning followed threats...

Islamic Republic Engaged in ‘Genocide’ in the 1980s, Says UN Rapporteur

By Natasha Phillips The United Nations Special Rapporteur Dr. Javaid Rehman has said the mass executions and killings of thousands of political prisoners and minority groups by the Islamic Republic during the 1980s amounted to “genocide.” He...