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Iran’s Human Rights Violations Draw Global Condemnation

September 9, 2020

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Farzad Kohan is the Ovissi Foundation’s second 202 Farzad Kohan is the Ovissi Foundation’s second 2026 award winner. A sculptor who also paints, he explores love, migration, and identity, often using found objects and appropriated media. Persian language and scale run through his work — his piece “How Do You Title a Massacre?” uses Persian numerals to stand in for people, their overlapping and vanishing forms symbolizing how systems flatten individual lives. Rather than depicting Iranian history directly, Farzad engages it through language, material, and personal experience. With the award, he’ll develop “Language as Evidence,” studying how language and numbering shape and record the experience of displacement and survival. Jurors Ebrin Bagheri, Keyvan Fehri, Stephanie Moore, Reza Paykazadi, and Safoura Zoroofchi join the Foundation in congratulating him. @foundationovissi @farzadkohan #ovissifoundation #farzadkohan
On her Instagram page, @gracespelmanmusicproject, On her Instagram page, @gracespelmanmusicproject, Grace Spelman, a Los Angeles–based music writer, screenwriter, and musician, shared that she came across a cover of “Jolene” during the pandemic while exploring Iranian music, and expressed her enthusiastic appreciation for Dolly Parton. Leila Forouhar, the Iranian pop star celebrated for her fame in pre-revolution Tehran, recorded her own version of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” on her album “Do Parandeh”. She transformed the track into a Middle Eastern disco tune, layering in funky basslines and rich strings, while preserving the yearning, jealous emotion of the original. It stands out as one of the most unique covers in the song’s extensive history. @leilaforouhar #leilaforouhar #jolene
“The Gentleman Thief,” also billed as “Cash Out 3, “The Gentleman Thief,” also billed as “Cash Out 3,” is an upcoming action-heist thriller starring John Travolta as veteran con man Mason Goddard. His brother Shawn draws him out of retirement for one last job: stealing a $100 million painting aboard a yacht. But the heist turns out to be a trap set by a vengeful crime boss seeking revenge. Iranian-American actor Sam Asghari also stars, and the film is set to hit theaters on July 31, 2026. @samasghari #samasghari #johntravolta #thegentlemanthief #kayhanlife
Sepideh Moafi, an Iranian-American actress born in Sepideh Moafi, an Iranian-American actress born in a refugee camp in Germany to parents who had fled Iran, earned her first-ever Emmy nomination this year (2026) for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi on HBO Max’s medical drama “The Pitt.” The show, set in a Pittsburgh emergency room, follows Al-Hashimi as a strong-willed doctor who arrives in the second season and tries to take charge while temporarily replacing Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby. An Emmy is, essentially, the television industry’s highest honor, an award given each year by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to recognize outstanding achievement in TV, similar to how the Oscars honor film. “The Pitt” had a huge showing overall, with 13 of its cast members nominated for acting Emmys, one of the biggest achievements for a cast in Emmy history. @sepidehmoafi @hbomax #sepidehmoafi #kayhanlife
Kayhan Life: What would you like moviegoers to tak Kayhan Life: What would you like moviegoers to take away from the experience of watching “77 Hours”? Director Vahid Mahdavi: I want audiences to leave the cinema with the feeling that they have witnessed something that cannot be ignored. The film is intense, but its purpose is not shock for the sake of shock. It is about forcing us to look at what is often hidden. I would like moviegoers to think about the cost of silence, the fragility of truth under dictatorship, and the courage of ordinary people who risk everything simply to be heard. The film is also about survival – not only physical survival, but the survival of memory. If audiences leave with more empathy, more awareness, and a stronger sense that these stories must be documented and remembered, then the film has done its job. Read full interview on kayhanlife.com #77hours #kayhanlife @vahidearth @vahidearth
At the NATO summit in Ankara, President Trump told At the NATO summit in Ankara, President Trump told reporters he now considers the ceasefire with Iran finished, saying he sees no point in continuing to engage with Tehran’s leadership. He described Iranian officials in harshly dismissive terms, calling them dangerous and untrustworthy, and said further talks would be pointless. His remarks came shortly after the U.S. and Iran had exchanged strikes, raising doubts about whether the memorandum of understanding reached last month would hold.
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