Saturday, October 3, 2026

Late to Shanghai: Tehran’s Look East Doctrine in Action

Artist: Behnam Mohammadi By: Kayhan Life Staff The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit kicked off on August 31, with 20 leaders smiling for the cameras. Missing from the all-important family photo, however, was Masoud Pezeshkian, president of the...

The Fall of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

By Ahmad Barakizadeh

Khomeini and his Fatwas

By Ahmad Barakizadeh

Iran’s Unshackled Voices: Breaking Free from the Chains of Ideology

Artist: Ahmad Barakizadeh By Kayhan Life Staff Protests erupted across Iran as students, steelworkers, and nurses took to the streets, voicing their anger with the Islamic Republic in cities such as Tehran, Bushehr, Qazvin, Gilan, Dehdasht, and...

X Update Reveals IRGC Cyberarmy

Artist: Behnam Mohammadi By Kayhan Life Staff A routine update to X’s About This Account tool—now revealing where and how users log in— spotlighted one of the Islamic Republic’s worst-kept secrets: a two-tiered internet system. One offers a free, unfiltered...

The Hanging Regime

Artist: Ahmad Barakizadeh By Kayhan Life Staff With the memorandum’s two-month deadline passing and its leverage dwindling, the Islamic Republic is left clinging to power.

Two Years After Mahsa, the ‘Woman Life Freedom’ Spirit Remains Vibrant

By Ahmad Barakizadeh On Sep.16, it will be the second anniversary of the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in police custody in Iran. She was arrested for not wearing her hijab 'properly.' Her death...

Iran on the G7 Table

By Ahmad Barakizadeh       Leading powers committed to curbing Iran’s nuclear capabilities and asked the country to respect human rights laws, at a meeting in London ahead of the G7 summit.

Bandar Abbas: A Powder Keg Primed for Explosion 

Artist: Behnam Mohammadi By Kayhan Life Staff A week has passed since the explosion at Shahbandar (Rajai Port) in Bandar Abbas, in Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan. The blast caused extensive damage to the port and a climbing...