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...
Can The Ayatollah’s Nuclear Sprint Be Stopped?
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
Will the latest resolution by the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors be enough to halt the Islamic Republic’s sprint towards a nuclear weapon? The vote delivered a reminder that the...
Death Roams Iran’s Streets, the Islamic Republic Barely Blinks
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
Air pollution has tightened its grip on Iran’s cities with the lethality of the Grim Reaper. This is a public-health emergency claiming tens of thousands of lives every year.
According to...
The Scarecrow Republic
Artist: Ahmad Barakizadeh
By Kayhan Life Staff
Across the Middle East and extending to Africa, the Islamic Republic’s vast network of influence is showing signs of decay. The ideological project that once fueled militancy now resembles a...
Ears Plugged, Nukes Primed
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
Ayatollah Khamenei has perfected the art of strategic deafness. It’s his preferred method of tuning out the global chorus calling for compliance, cooperation, or even mild compromise.
For years, he has...
Diplomacy on a Plank
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By Kayhan Life Staff
In the latest episode of the Islamic Republic’s long-running political drama, the supreme cleric marches resolutely toward the void — cane in hand, finger raised skyward — as if...
The Islamic Republic’s Greatest Enemy: Itself
Artist: Ahmad Barakizadeh
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Islamic Republic of Iran has once again demonstrated that its most formidable enemy is not America, Israel, or any foreign conspiracy — but its own spectacular incompetence. In a...
Supreme Isolation: The Ayatollah of Nowhere
Artist: Ahmad Barakizadeh
By Kayhan Life Staff
Two years after the flames of October 7 lit up the region, the Islamic Republic, the self-proclaimed architect of an “Axis of Resistance, finds itself marooned on the shrinking sandbar...
A Trickling Hose vs Roaring Flames
Artist: Ahmad Barakizadeh
By Kayhan Life Staff
For decades, the Islamic Republic has insisted it could outmaneuver any Western plot and outlast every sanction. But with the U.N.’s “snapback mechanism” now in full force, the theocratic state’s...
Shuffling Toward Sanctions, Mumbling Uranium
Artist: Behnam Mohammadi
By: Kayhan Life Staff
The so-called supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, emerged Tuesday night for another televised monologue. Frail, isolated, and visibly clinging to the scraps of his authority, Khamenei once...
