Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Ailing Iranian-Austrian Prisoner Massud Mossaheb Issues Plea from Evin Jail

By Kayhan Life Staff In a leaked audio file, Massud Mossaheb, a 74-year-old Iranian-Austrian who has been in Tehran’s Evin Prison since January 2019, has appealed to the public to campaign for his release. Mr. Mossaheb,...

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,...

Iran Dismisses Damning Chemical Weapons Convention Report

By Kayhan Life Staff Iran has dismissed the findings of a recently declassified report by the U.S. Department of State which states that it was in “non-compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).” The CWC is...
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Iranian Performers, Personalities Come Together in Global Yalda Celebration

Star Iranian musicians and leading personalities from Europe and the U.S. came together on Dec. 20th to ring in the winter solstice’s arrival and celebrate the ancient Persian festival of Yalda. The program, presented online...

New Database Tracks Iran’s Human Rights Violations Since 1979

By Natasha Phillips Evidence linking Iranian officials and organizations to human rights violations in Iran has been shared in a new database produced by London-based charity Justice for Iran. The database, entitled “Faces of Crime,” was launched...

ANALYSIS: A Year After Soleimani’s Death, Iran’s influence Is Receding

By Ahmad Rafat January 3 marked the first anniversary of the death of the former Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Qods Force (IRGC-QF), Lieutenant General Ghasem Soleimani, who was assassinated in a U.S....

Iran Had World’s Second Worst Human Rights Record in 2020, UN Watch Says

By Kayhan Life Staff Iran had the world’s second worst human rights record in 2020, after China, a recent report by United Nations Watch said. Cameroun, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Turkey, North Korea, and Russia...

Britain Has Legal Duty To Protect Detained Dual Nationals, Lawyer Geoffrey Robertson Says

By Natasha Phillips A statement made in a letter by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s lawyers that neither the Foreign Office or the British government have a legal duty...

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...