Friday, January 17, 2025

Remembering Iranian Novelist Parviz Ghazi Saeed, Creator of “Detective Lawson”

By Ahmad Rafat Parviz Ghazi Saeed, a celebrated pre-Revolution fiction writer, died on April 21 in San Jose, California, aged 83. His family said Mr. Saeed, who was a political commentator for Persian-language media in...

ANALYSIS: Iran’s Workers Struggle With Low or Unpaid Wages, Fixed-Term Contracts

By Kayhan Life Staff Iranian workers face serious challenges, including low wages, fixed-term contracts, unsafe workplace environments, job insecurity, and a lack of benefits. Millions of Iranian households live under the poverty line. The current average...

Author Nazila Fathi, Ex-New York Times Reporter, Releases Children’s Book

By Nazanine Nouri Nazila Fathi is an Iranian-American author and a former New York Times reporter in Tehran. Fathi emigrated to Canada and later the U.S. after the 2009 Iranian elections, in which a wave of...

Iran’s Invitation to Host UN Rapporteur on Sanctions Is a ‘Trick,’ Shirin Ebadi Says

By Natasha Phillips Iranian Nobel Laureate and Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said an upcoming visit to Iran in May by Dr. Alena Douhan -- the UN’s Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures -- had...

Three Iranian-Born Actresses Are In Competition At 2022 Cannes Film Festival

By Kayhan Life Staff Three Iranian-born actresses —Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, and Zahra Amir Ebrahimi — have movies in competition for the top prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 17...

ANALYSIS: IRGC Is Main Obstacle in Talks to Revive Iran Nuclear Deal

By Ahmad Rafat In the past few weeks, there have been intense discussions on whether the U.S. should remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) in the...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Violated Women in Evin Prison, Former Political Prisoner Says

By Natasha Phillips  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards raped women detainees in Evin prison during official visits to the jail in 2009, according to former political prisoner Marziyeh Amirizadeh. Amirizadeh was arrested and imprisoned in 2009 for converting...

ANALYSIS: Russia Is Mastermind of Rocket Attacks on Iraqi Kurdistan

By Ahmad Rafat The Islamic Republic’s regional adventurism and meddling in Iraqi affairs continue. On March 13, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) reportedly launched multiple Fateh-10 ballistic missiles from Iran’s northwestern province of East Azerbaijan...
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Captain Behnam, Pilot Who Prevented 2018 Plane Crash, Tells All

By Fred Parvaneh In 2018, United Airlines Flight 1175 from San Francisco was en route to Honolulu when the 777 aircraft had catastrophic engine failure over the ocean. A hair crack on the engine blade...

Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli To Be Spacecraft Commander of 2023 NASA SpaceX Mission

By Nazanine Nouri On March 24, NASA and the European Space Agency announced the selection of two astronauts to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station:   NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli as the...