ANALYSIS: Death of Iranian Arab in Prison Raises Human Rights Concerns
By Ahmad Rafat
Benyamin Alboghbiesh, a 28-year-old ethnic Arab who along with his brother Mohammad Ali were arrested by security agents on May 26, has died under suspicious circumstances at the Intelligence Detention Center in...
ANALYSIS: Israel Intensifying Air War in Syria Against Iranian Encroachment
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi
AMMAN, April 22 (Reuters) - Israel has dramatically expanded air strikes on suspected Iranian missile and weapons production centres in Syria to repel what it sees as a stealthy military encroachment by its...
ANALYSIS: Elections: Allegations of Corruption and Influence Peddling
May 20, 2017
By Roshanak Asteraki
Hostilities between reformist and conservative camps have reached a toxic level ahead of the presidential elections on Friday 19 May 2017.
Reformist President Hassan Rouhani and Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative cleric...
ANALYSIS: Saudi Oil Attack Shows How Iran Sees New Mideast Game
By Peter Apps
LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - If Iran's government was truly behind last weekend's cruise missile and drone attack on Saudi Arabia's energy infrastructure, it has put its potential foes across the Middle East...
Haniyeh Assassination: Why Tehran Is Blaming A “Projectile From Abroad”
Kayhan-London Staff
July 31, 2024
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From sources inside Iran, as well as around the Arab world, the first elements are emerging of how the high-stakes mission to assassinate Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran may have been successfully...
ANALYSIS: Politics, Not Substance, Seen Guiding U.S. And Iran on Terror Listing
By Arshad Mohammed and Parisa Hafezi
April 11 (Reuters) - One of the last obstacles to reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal - Tehran's demand to remove its Revolutionary Guards from a U.S. terrorism list - is...
ANALYSIS: Why Sweden Was Silent About Iran’s Alleged Assassination Plots
By Ahmad Rafat
On Feb. 15, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Lennart Billstrom publicly denounced the Iranian government’s involvement in a plot to assassinate three Swedish Jewish citizens.
In a conversation with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian,...
ANALYSIS-Iran Nuclear Deal Near Death, but West Not Ready to Pull Plug
By Arshad Mohammed, John Irish and Parisa Hafezi
WASHINGTON/PARIS/DUBAI, May 2 (Reuters) - Western officials have largely lost hope the Iran nuclear deal can be resurrected, sources familiar with the matter said, forcing them to weigh how to limit Iran's...
Iran’s Gasoline Crisis: Clean Labels, Toxic Reality
By Kayhan Life and Kayhan London Staff
Leaked data from Iran’s energy sector offer a rare, unvarnished look at how the country’s gasoline crisis has been managed—and mismanaged—over the past decade. The documents suggest a...
ANALYSIS: Europe Is Reluctant to Designate IRGC As A Terrorist Organization
By Ahmad Rafat
European governments are in the process of deciding whether to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
On Jan. 18, the European Parliament overwhelmingly supported a proposal urging the...
