Monday, November 18, 2024

Iranian Women Can Watch Men’s Football Games, Head of Federation Says

By Kayhan Life Staff Iran’s National Security Council has granted permission for women to enter certain football stadiums to watch men's games, according to the head of the Iranian Football Federation. Iran Football Federation President Mehdi...

Tough Realities of Life In Iran Are Highlighted in London Festival of Films By...

By Ahmad Rafat The first festival of documentaries, short films, and animation by Iran-based female directors was recently held in London. The two-day festival was co-organized by the Persia Educational Foundation (established in 2016) and...

Iranian Artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh Dies At 60; Alcohol Poisoning Blamed For Death

By Nazanine Nouri The Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh has died in a hospital in Tehran aged 60.  According to media reports, the cause of death was alcohol poisoning, contracted after consuming a bootleg drink. The artist...

Iran Is Alarmed by Mutiny In Russia Led by Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin

By Ahmad Rafat The mercenary Wagner group’s occupation of the port city of Rostov-on-Don in Russia, on June 23 lasted just one day: Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin halted its march on Moscow after a deal...

Executions Have Surged In Iran Following Protests, Boroumand Center Reports 

By Natasha Phillips There has been a sharp rise in the number of executions carried out in Iran since anti-government protests began in September. In the first five months of this year, Iran executed at least 293...

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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London Conference By Baha’i Community Denounces Religious, Gender Repression in Iran 

By Natasha Phillips Gender apartheid in countries such as Iran should be a recognized crime under international law, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic...

IRGC Agent Fails to Kill Sunni Leader, Local News Website Reports

By Kayhan Life Staff On June 19, security personnel at the Makki Grand Mosque in Zahedan, the capital of the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, reportedly foiled a plot by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards...

Albanian Authorities Enter Mojahedin Camp To Carry Out Searches, Arrests 

By Ahmad Rafat At 8 am (local time) on June 21, hundreds of officers from the Albanian Special Anti-Corruption Structure (SPAK) and the Department of Neutralization of Armed Elements (RENEA) entered camp Ashraf-3 in the...

Iran Pardons 90,000 People Arrested During Nationwide Protests

By Kayhan Life Staff Mohammad Mosaddegh Kahnamoui, the first deputy to Iran’s Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, said on June 18 that 90,000 people arrested since the start of the nationwide protests in September 2022 had...