Thursday, December 25, 2025

Iran’s Female Prisoners Condemn Executions As 40 Political Prisoners Face Death 

By Natasha Phillips   Female prisoners detained in Iran’s notorious Evin prison in Tehran issued a statement on Nov. 16 condemning the increasing number of executions by the Islamic Republic, while drawing attention to the plight...
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Regime Change Is Only Solution For Iran, Say DC Conference Speakers

By Kayhan Life Staff Leading Iran experts, activists, and policymakers gathered in Washington, D.C., for a two-day conference organized by the National Union for Democracy (NUFDI) in Iran. The conference, which took place on Sept....

Islamic Republic Is Condemned for Human Rights Violations at UN Human Rights Council 

By Natasha Phillips The Islamic Republic of Iran faced withering criticism for its human rights violations from the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) and Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur...

Trading Shahnameh for De Kooning: New Memoir Recounts Historic 1994 ‘Exchange’

By Nazanine Nouri A new memoir by the late British art dealer Oliver Hoare tells the story of how, 30 years ago, he engineered a clandestine swap between a priceless 16th-century manuscript of the Shahnameh,...

Prince Reza Pahlavi Meets Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs

By Kayhan Life Staff Prince Reza Pahlavi and Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli met and held talks on June 6 in the US. The discussions focused on the significance of “restoring the historic...

Femicide Surges in Iran, Which Still Ranks Near Bottom of Global Gender Gap Index 

By Natasha Phillips The killing of women and girls in Iran because of their gender has risen sharply in the Islamic Republic, according to the Norway-based Kurdish human rights organization Hengaw. At least 50 cases of...

Islamic Republic Is Allegedly Hiring Crime Gangs to Kill Opponents in Europe

By Ahmad Rafat   The arrest of two individuals in the Netherlands has exposed a strong link between the security agencies of the Islamic Republic and the infamous “Mocro-Maffia” drug gang operating in the Netherlands and...

Iran’s Minorities Disproportionately Targeted in Crackdowns, UN Mission Reports

By Natasha Phillips Ethnic and religious minority groups in Iran have suffered more than the rest of the population from the government’s crackdowns on the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests which began in 2022, according to an Aug....

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Ebadi Slams Institutions for Hosting Alleged Terrorist Mousavian

By Benjamin Weinthal Shirin Ebadi, the first-ever Nobel Prize laureate from Iran, in late September issued a scathing indictment of the former high-level Iranian government official Seyed Hossein Mousavian and institutions that host him, because...

Iranian Women Athletes Win Medals For Taekwondo In Paris 2024 Olympics 

By Ahmad Rafat Mobina Nematzadeh, an Iranian taekwondo competitor, won a bronze medal in the 49-kilogram category at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, becoming the second Iranian woman to secure an Olympic medal. Another notable performance...