Iranian Businesses That Pose No Public Health Risks Can Reopen, Deputy Minister Says
By Roshanak Astaraki
Businesses that pose no public health risks and are unlikely to cause the spread of coronavirus can soon reopen under the government’s “smart social distancing” scheme, according to Hossein Modarres Khiabani, the...
Iran Must Explore Trade Opportunities with Neighboring Countries, Experts Say
By Roshanak Astaraki
Iran has exported, respectively, $1.1 billion and $24 billion worth of goods to the 28 member states of the European Union and to 13 neighboring nations plus Egypt in the past year....
Kayhan Life Exclusive: Coronavirus Spreading Among Industrial Workers in Iran
By Roshanak Astaraki
The Iranian government has been slow in responding to the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 that has infected 4747 people and claimed 124 lives in the country so far. Most of...
More Than Half a Million Iranian Families Forced into Poverty in 2019, Official Says
By Roshanak Astaraki
During a Dec. 11 cabinet meeting, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the director of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation Morteza Bakhtiari had assured him that extreme poverty had been completely eradicated in...
EXCLUSIVE: Bodybuilder Khaled Pirzadeh Speaks of Being Tortured in Prison
By Roshanak Astaraki
On July 14, prison authorities in Iran reportedly transferred Khaled Pirzadeh, an advocate of constitutional monarchy and a civil rights activist, from the Greater Tehran Penitentiary in Fashapuyeh District (commonly known as...
Iran Excluded from World Bank, IMF Meetings on Coronavirus Aid
By Roshanak Astaraki
The World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held an emergency meeting on March 19 to discuss debt relief for International Development Association (IDA) countries affected by the COVID-19...
Iranian Job-Seekers Say They Are Hit Hard By the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Roshanak Astaraki
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the economies of most countries around the world and resulted in millions of job losses. Iran, which already faces double-digit inflation and rampant unemployment, is among the...
COVID-19 Has Bankrupted Event Venues in Iran, Affected Wedding Planners, DJs
By Roshanak Astaraki
Half of the events venues in Iran have gone bankrupt since the start of the coronavirus lockdown a few months ago, causing massive job losses, according to Khosrow Ebrahimnia, the head of...
EXCLUSIVE: Iranian Protesters Speak Out in Interviews With Kayhan Life
By Roshanak Astaraki
A nationwide protest sparked a day after the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old ethnic Kurd, while in the custody of the morality police (guidance patrol) in Tehran on Sept. 16...
Iranians Petition to Demand Justice for Slain Protesters
By Roshanak Astaraki
A petition has been circulating online since early May encouraging Iranians to support the “Justice Campaign” officially launched on April 24 by Manouchehr Bakhtiari, the father of Pooya Bakhtiari, a 26-year-old man...
