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By Kayhan Life Staff May 19 - Staff at Iran’s airp

By Kayhan Life Staff
May 19 - Staff at Iran’s airports are suffering layoffs, months of unpaid wages, and deepening job insecurity nearly three months since most airports across the country suspended operations.

The wave of layoffs has now spread to airport workers and employees across Iran. A significant portion of airport personnel are employed through contracting companies as “contract workers” or “company workers,” categories of employment that leave workers far more vulnerable to job insecurity than formally employed staff.

An employee working for a contracting company at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) told the Iranian Students News Agency (ILNA): “Following the recent war, several airport contracting companies suspended their operations and instructed their employees to remain at home until further notice.”

The employee, who worked in the translation department at IKIA, has remained at home since the Feb. 28 outbreak of the US-Iran war. During that time, they have received only delayed payments of their minimum base salary, and their employer has reportedly stated that the company may no longer be able to pay wages in the coming months. According to this employee, there is now a serious possibility that many employees will lose their jobs.

This person added that both they and many of their colleagues hold Masters degrees and have worked for years in relatively well-paid positions.

“I have not been able to cover my rent since the year started,” they said. “Our monthly rent is 30 million tomans (approximately $194), and it is impossible to cover these costs with a minimum wage salary.”

ILNA reported that airport employees and workers across many provinces “are facing nearly identical conditions: unpaid or extremely low wages, widespread layoffs, and growing anxiety about an uncertain and bleak future.”

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. military i

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. military investigation into a blast at a girls’ school in Iran is “complex” given that it was located on an active Iranian cruise missile site, U.S. Admiral Brad Cooper, head of Central Command, testified on Tuesday before Congress.

Reuters first reported that an initial, internal U.S. military investigation showed U.S. forces were likely responsible for the destruction of the girls’ school in Minab. The Pentagon has since elevated the probe.

The incident took place on Feb. 28 on the first day of the conflict and killed 168 children, mostly ⁠girls, Iranian officials say.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart and Patricia Zengerle)

“Eternal Iran: With My Roots” brings together more

“Eternal Iran: With My Roots” brings together more than 100 Iranian artists at Mall Galleries, London, in 2026.
Open 10am-5pm daily. Tickets £7

Representing both emerging and established artists and voices, the exhibition draws participants from Iran and diaspora communities across 14 countries.

Works span painting, photography, installation, digital art and video, united by themes of identity, memory, migration and cultural continuity.

A dedicated section highlights artists currently based in Iran, whose work responds directly to the realities of ongoing conflict.

@dariushnehdaran @capitalartlondon @mallgalleries @adnan.art.london @farnazmohammadee_
@mallgalleriesartconsultancy

#withmyroorts #kayhanlife

By Kayhan Life Staff May 19 - Lotus Advocacy, a UK

By Kayhan Life Staff
May 19 - Lotus Advocacy, a UK-based think tank, has launched a campaign calling on the British government to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and to designate it as a terrorist organization, arguing that sanctions alone are no longer sufficient to counter the IRGC’s activities inside Iran, across the Middle East, and in Britain.

The “Ban IRGC” campaign aims to raise public awareness of the IRGC’s involvement in domestic repression, hostage-taking, overseas intimidation, money laundering, and opinion-shifting operations in the UK.

The campaign comes amid renewed concerns in Britain about Iranian state-linked threats.

Between January 2022 and October 2024, the UK responded to 20 Iran-backed plots targeting British nationals or residents considered threats by Tehran. The scale of the threat increased sharply in 2025, with MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, tracking more than 20 potentially lethal Iran-backed plots in a single year.

This year, the UK’s domestic security climate has further deteriorated. On 30 April, the Joint Terrorism Analysis Center raised the UK national terrorism threat level from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe.’ In early May, anti-terrorism police arrested two people after an arson attack on a memorial wall honoring Iranian protesters killed by the state in January.

British-Iranian actor and comedian Omid Djalili told Kayhan Life that IRGC proscription would have consequences far beyond symbolism. “As well as spreading terror, the IRGC is an international business,” Djalili said.

Continues on kayhanlife.com

@omiddjalili #kayhanlife @lotus_advocacy #banirgc

Googoosh, the renowned Iranian singer and actress,

Googoosh, the renowned Iranian singer and actress, was among 76 recipients of the 2026 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, awarded at the annual gala held on Ellis Island on May 16, 2026.
Established by the Ellis Island Honors Society and recognized by the United States Congress, the medal honors Americans who uphold the nation’s diversity and excel in their respective fields, with each year’s recipients entered into the Congressional Record.
In accepting the honor, Googoosh dedicated it to the people of Iran, expressing her wish for peace and brighter days, and closed her remarks by citing the words of the Persian poet Saadi, whose verse speaks to the shared bonds of humanity.

@googoosh #googoosh #ellisislandmedalofhonor
@ eihonors #NasserKazeminy @nasserkazeminy

By Steve Holland, Parisa Hafezi and Ariba Shahid W

By Steve Holland, Parisa Hafezi and Ariba Shahid
WASHINGTON/DUBAI/KARACHI, May 18 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he had paused a planned attack against Iran to allow for negotiations to take place on a deal to end the U.S.-Israeli war, after Iran sent a new peace proposal to Washington.

Trump said he had instructed the U.S. military that “we will NOT be doing the scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow, but have further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment’s notice, in the event that an acceptable Deal is not reached.”

Trump, under pressure to reach an accord that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and limit the economic fallout of the war that he started in February, has previously expressed hope that a deal was close on ending the war, only for no agreement to materialize.

In his post, he said the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had requested that he hold off on the previously undisclosed attack because “a Deal will be made, which will be very acceptable to the United States of America, as well as all Countries in the Middle East, and beyond.”

Trump’s post came after Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei confirmed that Tehran’s views had been “conveyed to the American side through Pakistan” but gave no details.

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