Islamic Republic Has Gone Back to Seizing Assets of Iranians Living Abroad
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Islamic Republic has resumed the practice of confiscating the assets of Iranians living abroad -- a practice that was a widespread tool of repression after the 1979 Revolution. The authorities...
Iran Says It Is Implementing Sentences Against Convicted January Protesters
DUBAI, March 23 (Reuters) - The cases of individuals arrested over Iran's nationwide protests earlier this year have been processed, first deputy Chief of the Judiciary Hamzeh Khalili said on Monday, with cases given a final verdict...
Former Iranian Water Polo Player Soleimani Distraught Over Wrestler’s Execution
By Iain Axon
March 20 (Reuters) - Reza Soleimani, a former Iranian water polo player, said he was devastated after learning that 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi had been executed for his alleged role in anti-government protests in Iran.
Iran executed three...
Reza Pahlavi, Shirin Ebadi Plan Transitional Justice System for Iran
By Kayhan Life Staff
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last Shah and the country’s most recognizable opposition leader, is setting up a committee tasked with establishing a transitional justice system in a future...
EXCLUSIVE: Tehran Residents Hope for Regime Change in Run-Up to Nowruz
By Firoozeh Nordstrom
For Iranians, the month of March marks the arrival of spring and the celebration of the Persian New Year, Nowruz. Yet this year, countless Iranian families are mourning the Islamic Republic's brutal...
Five Iranian Women’s Soccer Players Granted Humanitarian Visas in Australia
By Praveen Menon and Katharine Jackson
SYDNEY/WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - Australia on Tuesday granted humanitarian visas to five Iranian women soccer players after they sought asylum, fearing persecution on their return home for their refusal to sing the...
Trump Calls on Australia to Give Asylum to Iranian Women’s Soccer Players
WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he had spoken to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese about the Iran women's soccer team after reports that five players had sought asylum in Australia.
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency...
Soccer-Iran Players Labelled ‘Wartime Traitors’ After Anthem Silence in Asian Cup Opener
March 6 (Reuters) - An Iranian state television presenter has labelled the women's national soccer team as "wartime traitors" after the players did not sing their national anthem before their Asian Cup opener against South Korea in...
EXCLUSIVE: Mother of 16-Year-Old Killed in Protests Speaks to Kayhan Life
By Firouzeh Nordstrom
Soda Akramifard was a 16-year-old first-year graphic design student at an art academy. She lived in Marlik, Malard, in the province of northern Tehran. And on Jan. 9 -- when the Islamic...
Islamic Republic Continues to Imprison Artists In Aftermath of Protests
By Kayhan Life Staff
Two months after the nationwide protests in Iran and the deadly crackdown that followed, Iranian citizens continue to undergo arrest. The artist community seems particularly hard hit: the number of recently...
