The broadcast by Iranian state-controlled television of interviews with several women not wearing the Muslim headscarf during a rally commemorating the Islamic revolution has angered critics of the ...

When was the last time your mother, sister, wife, or daughter let you forget something that they didn’t like? We Persian ...

Israel and the United States say that their attacks on Iran are for the benefit of its women. Iranian feminists couldn’t disagree more. On June 14, a day after Israel launched a series of airstrikes ...

Over three years after the suspicious death of Jina Mahsa Amini sparked a nationwide protest movement in Iran, artists continue to fuel creative resistance.

A member of the Iranian police force stands on a street during the revival of morality police in Tehran, Iran, July 16, 2023. automation "We Iranian girls are not afraid of anything anymore," said ...

With protests raging and artists detained, Iranian filmmakers at the Berlinale say global festivals are one of their few remaining outlets to tell the truth - and to be heard.

Authorities in Iran have long been fighting a battle with women who refuse to wear the hijab or headscarf, often arresting and, in some cases, killing them for disobeying the religious edict. Now the ...

Iran's appointment as vice-chair of UN Commission for Social Development faces sharp criticism from human rights advocates and Iranian activists calling it a 'mockery'.

On a recent evening in the north of Iran’s capital of Tehran, a young woman with long hair fashioned into a high ponytail hopped onto a motorcycle behind a male companion. Not far away, two other ...