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Venice Film Festival To Feature Iranian Directors Including Nader Saeivar

By Ahmad Rafat The 81st Venice Film Festival, the world’s oldest film festival, will open on Aug. 28 on Lido Island. This year’s event will showcase 188 films -- including feature-length and short formats, fiction,...

Iranian Nurses Stage First National Strike in History; Fall Below Poverty Line

By Kayhan Life Staff A strike by Iranian nurses started three weeks ago in various cities nationwide and has now reached the capital, Tehran. Hundreds of nurses in state hospitals have joined the strike across...

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...

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,...

Iran’s Police Admit Shooting And Injuring 31-Year-Old Mother in Car

By Natasha Phillips The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Police Command has confirmed that Arezoo Badri, a 31-year-old mother of two, was shot in the back by officers while in her car following weeks of speculation...

Pezeshkian’s Cabinet Choices Show No Change In Islamic Republic’s Policies

By Ahmad Rafat Massoud Pezeshkian, who officially assumed the presidency of Iran on July 30, presented his cabinet nominees to the Majlis (Iranian Parliament) for approval on August 11. Pezeshkian said that he developed the...

Islamic Republic Faces Challenges As It Prepares Response to Haniyeh Killing

By Ahmad Rafat Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political office, was killed in Tehran on July 31. In response, the Islamic Republic quickly announced its plan to take retaliatory action against Israel, even though...

Saman Soltani, Iranian Kayaker on Olympics Refugee Team, Leaves Games Full of Hope

By Kayhan Life Saman Soltani, a refugee kayaker originally from Iran, was one of the athletes competing in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as part of the Olympic Refugee Team – which participated for the...

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...