Professor Gholam Reza Afkhami, Former Deputy Interior Minister, Passes Away
By Kayhan Life Staff
Gholam Reza Afkhami, Iran’s Deputy Interior Minister before the Revolution, who also served as a professor of political science at the National University of Iran and as Secretary General of Iran's...
EXCLUSIVE-Top US General Says Risk of Broader War Eases a Bit After Israel-Hezbollah Exchange
By Phil Stewart
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The near-term risk of a broader war in the Middle East has eased somewhat after Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah exchanged fire without further escalation but...
Meta Says Iranian Group Tried to Target Trump, Biden Officials’ WhatsApp Accounts
By Katie Paul
Aug 23 - Meta META.O said on Friday it had identified possible hacking attempts on the WhatsApp accounts of U.S. officials from the administrations of both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, blaming the...
ANALYSIS: Can Israel and Hezbollah Both Claim Success After Weekend Strikes?
Source: THE CONVERSATION
By: Ian Parmeter - Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
For weeks, Israel had been anticipating a major attack from Hezbollah in retaliation for its killing of Hezbollah commander...
ANALYSIS: What Is Islamic State, the Group Implicated in Germany Stabbing?
By Michael Georgy
DUBAI, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Islamic State has described the 26-year-old Syrian man taken into custody after a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen as a "soldier" of the group.
Though largely crushed by...
EXCLUSIVE – Top U.S. General Makes Unannounced Middle East Trip as Iran Threat Looms
By Phil Stewart
AMMAN, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The top U.S. general began an unannounced visit to the Middle East on Saturday to discuss ways to avoid any new escalation in tensions that could spiral into a...
EXCLUSIVE: New UN Rapporteur on Iran to Focus on Gender Inequality, Executions
By Natasha Phillips
Dr. Mai Sato, the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, outlined her priorities in an exclusive interview with Kayhan Life, and said...
Remembering Sirak Melkonian, Iranian-Armenian Modern Artist, Pioneer Of Abstraction
By Nazanine Nouri
Sirak Melkonian, a prominent Iranian-Armenian artist and one of the founders of the modern art movement in Iran passed away in Toronto last Saturday at the age of 93. Melkonian was a...
Iran’s Parliament Approves Pezeshkian’s Unity Cabinet
DUBAI, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament approved President Masoud Pezeshkian's 19 ministers on Wednesday, state media reported, giving way to a cross-factional cabinet reflecting his focus on consensus after days of debate.
In contrast to former President Ebrahim Raisi's...
Pakistani Pilgrim Bus Overturns, Killing 28, Injuring 23 in Iran
DUBAI, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims overturned in central Iran, killing 28 passengers and injuring another 23 people, state media reported on Wednesday.
The accident took place late on Tuesday in the central Iranian province...
