Saturday, May 4, 2024

OBITUARY: Raffie Aryeh, Iranian Industrialist 

  Raffie Aryeh, born in Tehran in 1931, passed away in Newport, California earlier this month. Under the mentorship of his father, Morad Aryeh, Raffie and his brother Eskandar jointly led an industrial conglomerate with...

Exclusive Interview with Prince Reza Pahlavi: “I Expressed My Political and Ideological Principles”

By Nazenin Ansari In an audio file published on social media in the closing days of the Iranian year (ending March 20), Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980), spoke...

Dropbox’s Billionaire Co-Founder Arash Ferdowsi, Ex-MIT Student, Leaves Company 

By Nazanine Nouri Arash Ferdowsi is a pioneering Iranian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Dropbox  --the cloud-based file-syncing service -- in 2007 with Drew Houston, a fellow student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thirteen years later, Dropbox...

Actor Nazanin Nour Collaborates with Hip Hop Artist Afta Hill in YouTube Film

By Fred Parvaneh Nazanin Nour -- the Iranian-American actor, writer and voice-over artist --  has released a short film on YouTube this week titled “I Don’t See the Point,” directed by Kia Mozaffari, with a...

OPINION: Europe Should Empower Iranian People, Isolate Islamic Republic

By Prince Reza Pahlavi The organizers of the Munich Security Conference decided not to invite representatives of the Islamic Republic to speak at this year’s gathering. Instead, they invited Iranians who oppose the regime. I...
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INTERVIEW – “We Will Go After Those in the Regime Who Target ...

By Nazenin Ansari  U.S. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus talks to Kayhan Life’s Nazenin Ansari in Washington, on the U.S.’s policies towards Iran and the Trump Administration's support for anti-government demonstrators in Iran. In the interview,...

‘Empty Chairs’ Across Canada’s Academic Community After Iran Plane Crash

By Moira Warburton and Denise Paglinawan TORONTO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The crash in Iran of a Ukrainian Airlines jet bound for Toronto killed dozens of professors and researchers from campuses across Canada, leaving a painful hole...

Empress Farah Remembers Her Coronation 50 Years Ago

November 03, 2017 In its October 31 issue, the French weekly Point de Vue published an exclusive interview with Iran’s former Empress Farah Pahlavi to mark the 50th anniversary of her coronation. In the course of...

OPINION: Is the British Government Supporting the Ayatollahs?

By Potkin Azarmehr A Times of London exposé last week revealed that a high-ranking Islamic Republic official responsible for the mandatory hijab laws and the hated ‘Morality Police’ in Iran is also the director of...

An Outstanding Iranian Statesman: Remembering Mr. Abdolreza Ansari

​​​​​​By Amir Taheri In the 1960s, as Iran emerged from decades of instability triggered by the Allied invasion and occupation in World War II, the Azerbaijan crisis, the aftershocks of oil nationalization and a looming...