Sunday, December 21, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Kayhan Life Interviews Iran’s Striking Oil Workers 

By Roshanak Astaraki A nationwide strike by Iranian oil workers on fixed-term contracts -- which started a day after the June 18 Iranian presidential elections and spread to 114 oil, gas, and petrochemical companies --...

Marjane Satrapi Releases ‘Radioactive,’ Biopic of Marie Curie

By Nazanine Nouri The Iranian-born, Oscar-nominated director Marjane Satrapi has a new movie out. “Radioactive” is the story of the scientist Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the only woman...

Dropbox’s Billionaire Co-Founder Arash Ferdowsi, Ex-MIT Student, Leaves Company 

By Nazanine Nouri Arash Ferdowsi is a pioneering Iranian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Dropbox  --the cloud-based file-syncing service -- in 2007 with Drew Houston, a fellow student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thirteen years later, Dropbox...

INSIDE LONDON’S ‘EPIC IRAN’ SHOW: 5,000 Years of Beauty, Splendor and Might  

By Tim Cornwell How do you pack 5,000 years of Iranian art, architecture, archeology, culture, literature, religion, kingship, craftsmanship and contemporary art into the low-light, grey-walled temporary exhibition spaces of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum? With...

‘The Night,’ First U.S.-Made Film To Be Released in Iran, Impresses U.S. Film Critics 

By Tim Cornwell Sometime this year, an Iranian-American movie will make history. “The Night” -- a hallucinatory horror film by the young director Kourosh Ahari -- will be the first U.S.-produced movie to show in...

Dual Nationals Should Not Travel To Iran, German Government Warns

By Natasha Phillips German-Iranian dual nationals have been warned not to travel to Iran by the German government, after a 66 year-old Cologne resident was arrested in Tehran. Nahid Taghavi, a retired architect who has lived...

Leading Iranian Women Advocates In the Spotlight As Georgetown Hosts Two Online Panels

By Kayhan Life Staff The status of women in present-day Iran will be the focus of two panels hosted by Georgetown University’s  Institute for Women, Peace and Security on Sept. 1 and Sept. 8.  The...

Iranian Oil Workers’ Industrial Action Enters Fourth Week, Continues to Spread

By Roshanak Astaraki A nationwide strike by Iranian oil workers on fixed-term contracts -- which started a day after the June 18 Iranian presidential elections -- has spread to 114 oil, gas, and petrochemical companies...

Iranian-American Group Files Complaint About BBC Persian Report

 By Kayhan Life Staff The U.S.-based National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) has lodged a formal complaint with the BBC Persian Service for a reference made to Iranians who have objected to the appointment...

Twitter Should Ban Ayatollah Khamenei, Says Iranian Human Rights Activist Masih Alinejad 

By Natasha Phillips Twitter should remove accounts belonging to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for repeatedly violating the platform’s policies, human rights activist Masih Alinejad has said.  Ms. Alinejad, the founder of My Stealthy Freedom,...