Thursday, July 17, 2025

Mehdi Ebrahimian, Architect of Shah Abbas Hotel, Passes Away 

By Kayhan Life Staff Professor Mehdi Ebrahimian, who designed the legendary Shah Abbas Hotel in Isfahan, passed away on July 11 in Tehran. He was laid to rest in the Rezvan Garden cemetery, at his...

Islamic Republic To Introduce Gender Segregation In Textbooks, Overhaul Schooling

By Kayhan Life Staff Girls and boys enrolled in schools in Iran should work from different textbooks, Education Minister Reza Morad Sahraei has announced. He made the announcement during the closing ceremony of the National...

Russia-Iran Fighter Jet Deal Has Been Shelved, Defense Minister Indicates 

By Kayhan Life Staff Iranian government plans to purchase Sukhoi Su-35 jet fighters from Russia appear to have fallen through, according to recent comments by Iran’s Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL), Brigadier-General...

Iran’s Government Is Jailing and Torturing Doctors, Report Says

By Natasha Phillips Iran’s security forces are torturing, jailing and killing doctors for treating injured anti-government protesters, according to a Feb. 10 report by the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). A physician in Iran interviewed by...

Russia Is Reluctant to Side with Iran in Disputes Over Persian Gulf Islands

By Kayhan Life Staff Iran has rejected a recent joint statement by the Gulf States and Russia, proposing that the dispute over ownership of the three Persian Gulf Islands of the Greater and Lesser Tunbs...

Nearly 20 Percent of Iran’s School Buildings Are Dilapidated, Official Says

By Kayhan Life Staff Hamidreza Khan-Mohammadi, Iran’s Deputy Education Minister for Development, recently warned that nearly 19 percent of all the schools in the country are in a state of disrepair, adding that the buildings...

Islamic Republic Ministries, Central Bank Implicated In $3.37 Billion Corruption Scandal  

By Roshanak Astaraki The Islamic Republic of Iran’s ministries, customs office and central bank are implicated in a $3.37 billion corruption scandal centered on tea imports and orchestrated  between 2019 and 2022 by the Debsh...

A Survey by a US-Based Research Institute Shows Iranians Support Reza Pahlavi

By Kayhan Life Staff In February 2023, the Empirical Research and Forecasting Institute (erf.i), a research center and think tank based in the United States, released the results of its second survey titled “Political Stance...

Islamic Republic Had A Hand In Attack on Shiraz Shrine, Says Analyst Vahedi

By Ahmad Rafat A terrorist attack on the Shah Cheragh Shrine in Shiraz on Aug. 13 left one person dead and seven others injured, according to the local authorities. Shortly after the attack on the Shia...

Detained Iranian Protesters Want Reza Pahlavi Back in Iran, Says IRGC Official

By Kayhan Life Staff Some of those arrested in the nationwide protests in 2022 were nostalgic during their interrogation for the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and hoped for the return to Iran of...