Sunday, January 11, 2026

ANALYSIS: How Accurate Are Opinion Surveys of Iranians Conducted From Abroad?

By Ahmad Rafat On Feb. 24, the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy Center for International and Security Studies (CISSM) published a study titled “Iranian Public Opinion in the Biden Era,” which, according to...

Google’s ‘Security Princess’ Parisa Tabriz Battles for Web Safety, Gender Balance

By Nazanine Nouri Parisa Tabriz is one of the most sought-after executives in the cybersecurity world. Her business card identifies her as Google’s “Security Princess”-- a title she came up with herself. She is the...

U.S. Treasury Removes Three Iranians from Sanctions List

By Kayhan Life Staff The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has removed three Iranians from its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list. In September 2020, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration placed Behzad...

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...

Director Ana Lily Amirpour to Compete at Venice Film Festival With ‘Mona Lisa’ Movie

By Nazanine Nouri The Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour -- who won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2016 for her horror movie “The Bad Batch” -- will be back in...

Exclusive Interview with Prince Reza Pahlavi: “I Expressed My Political and Ideological Principles”

By Nazenin Ansari In an audio file published on social media in the closing days of the Iranian year (ending March 20), Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980), spoke...

Iran’s Striking Oil Workers Joined by Eight More 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,...

New Iran Law Could Make Arbitrary Detention Easier, Richard Ratcliffe Says

By Natasha Phillips A new law in Iran that transfers the power to grant and revoke lawyers’ licenses from the Iranian Bar Association (IBA) to the judiciary could make it easier for the government to detain...

Iranians Win Awards at Venice Film Festival; Keep Silent on Afkari Execution

By Ahmad Rafat Iranian films were among the winners of the 77th International Venice Film Festival, which ran from 2 to Sept. 12 -- and was the first international film festival to be held with...