Iran Launches Advanced Module to Deploy Satellites to Higher Altitudes, Media Say
Dec 6 (Reuters) - Iran sent into space on Friday its heaviest-ever payload using the Simorgh carrier rocket including an advanced module for transferring satellites to higher-altitude orbits, state television reported.
The Samān-1 transfer module, along with...
Two Men Charged Over Attack on British-Based Iranian Journalist
LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - British prosecutors said on Thursday they had authorised charges to be brought against two Romanians over the stabbing of a journalist working for a Persian language media organisation in London in...
Earthquake of Magnitude 5.7 Strikes Western Iran
Dec 5 (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring magnitude 5.7 struck Western Iran on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported.
The quake struck Iran's Khuzestan Province injuring at least 15 people but did not damage oil infrastructure in...
In Dubai Debut, Artist Fariba Boroufar Celebrates Persian Architecture
By Rawaa Talass
Fariba Boroufar is an Iranian textile artist whose works draw attention to the preservation of Iran’s great architectural heritage at a time of modernization and rapid technological change. She is presenting her...
The Russia-Iran-Assad ‘Axis of the Vulnerable’ Is Cracking in Syria
Source: THE CONVERSATION
By Scott Lucas: Professor of International Politics, University College Dublin
The so-called “axis of the vulnerable” is breaking in Syria. Starting in 2016, Russia and Iran, propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad,...
Iranian Nobel Prize Winner Mohammadi Released From Jail for Medical Treatment
DUBAI, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi was released from Evin prison after the suspension of her jail term to undergo medical treatment, her husband Taqi Rahmani told Reuters on Wednesday.
Mohammadi...
Iran Says It May Send Forces to Combat Syrian Rebels in Hama
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi
AMMAN, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Intense airstrikes overnight drove Syrian rebels back from the edge of Hama, a major city whose fall would pile pressure on President Bashar al-Assad, both sides said on Wednesday.
Rebels...
Inspired by Iran-Iraq War, Photographer Gohar Dashti Shows Her ‘Home’ Series at Paris Photo...
By Nazanine Nouri
The Iranian-born photographer Gohar Dashti featured prominently at the recent edition of Paris Photo, a major international fair dedicated to photography and held this year in the newly restored Grand Palais, the...
US Deepens Sanctions on Iran’s ‘Shadow’ Oil Fleet
By Doina Chiacu, Susan Heavey and Florence Tan
WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Tuesday ramped up sanctions on Iran, targeting 35 entities and vessels it said carried illicit Iranian petroleum to foreign markets as part of what...
UN Mission Meets Victims, Survivors of Iran’s 2022 National Protests
By Kayhan Life Staff
Members of the United Nations’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran have met with survivors and victims of the protests that erupted in Iran in 2022 and...
