Iranian Economy Is Hit Hard As Billions of Dollars in Capital Leave the Country
By Kayhan Life Staff
Nearly $100 billion in Iran’s capital accounts has left the country over the past decade, according to the Tehran-based 90-Eghtesad economics news website, citing a recent report by the Central Bank...
Video Interview With Yasmine Pahlavi, Wife of Prince Reza Pahlavi
By Azadeh Karimi and Ali Eshtiagh
Yasmine Pahlavi is the wife of the former Iranian Crown Prince, Reza Pahlavi. She is a children’s rights lawyer, and has played an active role in highlighting the plight...
Jailed Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Removed From Hospital, Husband Says
By Natasha Phillips
Nasrin Sotoudeh -- the Iranian human rights lawyer who was sentenced to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes in 2019 on charges including “activities against national security,” has been taken out...
Iranian and Afghan Campaigners Call On UN to Protect Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
By Natasha Phillips
A letter signed by more than 1,200 Iranian and Afghan human rights activists and journalists has called on the United Nations to protect women’s rights and secure peace in Afghanistan after the...
Actress Mary Apick Discusses Her Animation Film On Iran’s Underage Street Peddlers
By Ahmad Rafat
Iranian-American stage and television actress Mary Apick has produced a 13-minute animation film titled “The Cat” drawing attention to the plight of Iran’s child peddlers. The focus of the story: a flower...
Lifting U.S. Sanctions Will Not By Itself Revive Iranian Economy, Officials Say
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iran-Italy Chamber of Commerce Chair Ahmad Pourfallah has warned the country’s officials that they cannot jump-start the economy even if all sanctions were to be lifted unless they enact the Financial...
Iran Unveils New Domestically Built Warship
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy (IRGCN) unveiled its latest warship, Shahid Roudaki, earlier this month in a ceremony in the port of Bandar Abbas, the capital of the southern province of...
“Iran’s Napoleon” in Exile: Reza Shah’s Life After Abdication Is Evoked in New Book...
By Tim Cornwell
When the wife of the British governor of Mauritius learned that Reza Shah, the former Shah of Iran, was to make the island his home in exile, she went out of her...
‘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...
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...
