Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Iran Regime’s ‘Death Committee’ President Unyielding in Defence of Clerical Rule

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - As a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi sat on a "death committee" overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital, rights groups say. Now president three decades...

Iran Detains Mahsa Amini’s Uncle as Anniversary of Her Death, Protests Looms

DUBAI, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Iran's security forces have detained a relative of a Kurdish Iranian woman days before the anniversary of her death in the custody of the morality police that sparked months of nationwide protests,...
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VIDEO:Mattie Heaven Insists Anti-IRGC Campaign in UK Will Continue Despite Security Fears

By Kayhan Life Staff Mattie Heaven, the wife of anti-IRGC campaigner Vahid Beheshti, explains the campaign to convince the British government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the UK. Ms Heaven is a...

Iran Is Paying ‘Political and Diplomatic Price for Its Brutality,’ UK Official 

By Natasha Phillips Iran’s government knows “the political and diplomatic price they are paying for their brutality ,” the UK Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell has said. Mitchell made the remarks during a June 7 debate at the...

Artist Minoo Emami To Burn Her Own Paintings In Solidarity With Iranian Women’s Struggle

By Firouzeh Nabavi The Iranian-born artist Minoo Emami plans to destroy a number of her early paintings in a sacrificial burning on the campus of the University of Hartford on November 11th. Motivated by the sacrifices ...

EU Ministers Agree on New Package of Sanctions Against Iran

BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - EU ministers on Monday agreed on a new package of sanctions against Iran, the Swedish EU presidency said. "Ministers adopted a new package of sanctions against Iran, targeting those driving the repression. The EU...

Iran Protests Were Fueled by 20 Foreign States, Says IRGC Intelligence Chief

By Kayhan Life Staff Brigadier-General Mohammad Kazemi, the head of the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (SAS), has claimed that 20 foreign governments were involved in the nationwide protests sparked by the...
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UN Diplomats Walk Out On Iran’s Foreign Minister As He Addresses Human Rights Council...

By Natasha Phillips United Nations diplomats walked out of a speech by Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian during a Feb. 27 session of the UN’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. The session was held...

Dr Firouz Naderi, The Eminent Visionary Scientist Passes Away

By Kayhan Life Staff: The global Iranian community has been left shocked and saddened by the death of Dr Firouz Naderi, the man who led the Mars Exploration Program at NASA and the successful...

Iran’s Government Executes Three Men Over Recent Protests, Judiciary Says

May 19 (Reuters) - Iran executed three men on Friday over recent protests, the country's judiciary said on Twitter. Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi were executed in the central city of Isfahan, it said. https://kayhanlife.com/special-reports/analysis-iran-has-executed-225-people-since-late-march/ They were implicated in the...