Iran Ministry’s Removal of Girls’ Images from Textbook Cover Sparks Public Outrage
By Kayhan Life Staff
A decision by Iran’s Ministry of Education to remove images of girls from the cover of the third-grade mathematics textbook for the 2020-21 school year has triggered a public outcry. People...
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...
Striking Iranian Workers Receive Support from International Trade Unions
June 29, 2021
By Kayhan Life Staff
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 80 oil, gas,...
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...
Iranian Jiu-Jitsu Champion Rajabi Dedicates Win to Executed Wrestler Afkari
By Kayhan Life Staff
Sam Ehsan-Rajabi, the winner of the gold medal at the World Master IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2020, has dedicated his victory to Navid Afkari, a 27-year-old Iranian champion wrestler who was executed...
Many Iranian Students Deprived of Remote Learning During Covid-19 Pandemic
By Kayhan Life Staff
The 2020-21 school year started two months ago in Iran in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. In April, the Iranian government rolled out its e-learning app Shadi (happy) as part of its...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘Paying the Price’ for UK Debt To Iran, Lawmaker Says
By Natasha Phillips
A new case brought against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran is linked to the British government’s failure to address a debt the UK owes Iran, Tulip Siddiq, a member of Britain’s parliament has...
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...
Reza Pahlavi Urges Iranians to Join Forces and Liberate Homeland
By Ahmad Rafat
Prince Reza Pahlavi presented his “new covenant” in a live broadcast. He said his speech was a “response to the innumerable messages of those of you who are rightly worried about Iran...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s Khamenei Holds Key to Talks With U.S.
By Ahmad Rafat
Joe Biden is the sixth U.S. president to have had to deal with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the past 31 years. Contrary to popular belief, and despite Mr. Biden’s...
