ANALYSIS: Iran’s Worst Nightmare Would Be A Military-Led Revolt
By Kayhan Life Staff
Senior Iranian military officials have hailed lifting a 13-year UN arms embargo on Oct. 18 as a victory for the Islamic Republic. They say the measure will enable the country to...
Noor Pahlavi: Pandemic Is ‘Spiraling Out of Control’ in Iran
While the world focuses on the unfolding political and humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, just across its border, in Iran, another crisis is approaching a breaking point.
Every two minutes an Iranian is dying from COVID-19,...
Remembering Hormoz Farhat, Celebrated Iranian Composer and Musician
By Kayhan Life Staff
The celebrated Iranian composer and music professor Hormoz Farhat died on Aug. 16 in Dublin at the age of 93.
Professor Farhat had left Iran after the Revolution and lived in Dublin...
Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei to Head Iran’s Judiciary, Replacing Raisi
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appointed Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei as the head of the Judiciary. Mr. Ejei replaces Ebrahim Raisi, who won Iran’s presidential elections in June. Mr. Raisi will...
ANALYSIS: Even With Trump Defeat, Iran Nuclear Deal Is Uncertain
By Kayhan Life Staff
During an election campaign rally in Sanford, Florida, on Oct. 12, U.S. President Donald Trump said: “We took out the world’s number one terrorist, and the mass murderer of American troops...
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...
Co-Founder of Chart-Topping Band “Shahin & Sepehr” Releases Novel
By Fred Parvaneh
Sepehr Haddad — a recording artist who co-founded the band Shahin & Sepehr — has just released his debut novel, “A Hundred Sweet Promises,” based on a true family story told to...
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...
UK Opposition Leader May Offer Help to Free British-Iranians Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Anoosheh Ashoori
By Natasha Phillips
The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour party Kier Starmer has promised to look into the unjust detentions in Iran of dual nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori after discussions with their relatives on Nov. 9...
Empress Farah Republishes Pre-Revolution Memoirs, Discusses Them in Harvard Interview
By Nazanine Nouri
“1001 Days: Memoirs of an Empress” is the title of a memoir that Empress Farah Pahlavi wrote in 1976, three years before the Islamic Revolution. It was published in French in 1978,...
