ANALYSIS: How Hostage Taking Is An Integral Part of Iran’s Foreign Policy
By Ahmad Rafat
Holding foreign nationals and Iranians with dual citizenship hostage, and demanding money or a prisoner swap for their freedom, has been an integral part of the Islamic Republic’s transactional foreign policy since...
UK Parliament Is Urged to Open Inquiry Into Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Detention
By Natasha Phillips
Tulip Siddiq, the UK Member of Parliament representing the freed British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has asked the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee to review the reasons why it took six years to release her constituent.
Siddiq made the announcement at...
Genius Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani Is Remembered in Documentary: Interview
By Firoozeh Nordstrom
Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win the world’s most prestigious mathematics prize, the Fields Medal. George Csicsery’s “Secrets of the Surface” is the first feature-length film about the life and...
Iranians Celebrate Nowruz, Mark the Start of the Year 1401 With Worldwide Festivities
By Nazanine Nouri
More than 300 million people around the world are celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in festivities, gatherings and celebrations all over the world this month. Nowruz celebrates the return of spring...
Two Iranian Lawyers Sue Khamenei for Handling of Pandemic
By Natasha Phillips
A lawsuit brought by two Iranian lawyers has accused Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of mishandling the Coronavirus pandemic. The action was filed on March 6 in Iran.
Iran remains the Middle...
Award-Winning Young Inventor Erfan Nouraee Discusses His Life and Success: Interview
By Firouzeh Nordstrom
Erfan Nouraee is a 20-year-old Iranian-Canadian second-year student in electronic engineering at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering in Toronto who recently won a major international award for a sensor he invented.
Nouraee...
Iranian Female Futsal Player Summoned for Wearing “Stop War” T-shirt
By Kayhan Life Staff
The disciplinary committee of Mes Rafsanjan Women’s Futsal Club has summoned one of the team’s players, Mahsa Kamali, after she showed the public a t-shirt she was wearing under her team...
Professor Farhad Yusef-Zadeh Discusses the Galaxy, Extraterrestrial Life: Interview
By Fred Parvaneh
In the early 1980s, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh (also known as Farhad Zadeh) — a professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University — came across mysterious magnetic filaments in the galaxy that consisted...
Jewish-Iranian Industrialist Habib Elghanian Is Remembered in Granddaughter’s Book: Interview
By Nazanine Nouri
Habib Elghanian was one of the most prominent industrialists in pre-revolutionary Iran. From modest beginnings, he worked his way up to running a business empire in plastics, mining, real estate, construction, and...
At Art Dubai, Farideh Lashai Is Remembered In Special Display: Interview
By Rawaa Talass
Nine years ago, Iran lost one of its most prominent female artists, Farideh Lashai, after a long battle with cancer. Yet Lashai’s memory lives on.
Her abstract works were a highlight of this...
