The fire festival offers a great opportunity for that. Known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi, the festival comes in the ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a ...

An Iranian man jumps over a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Masih Alinejad, the charismatic Iranian dissident and journalist who prosecutors say was targeted by her former homeland’s government for assassination, is set to testify Tuesday at ...

Iranian authorities are cracking down on female vocalists who have defied the country's restrictions on women singing in ...

The Iranian regime continues to ramp up efforts to restrict the rights of citizens across the country, and this is to crush ...

A United Nations group has accused Iran of committing serious human rights violations following the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini ...

Authoritarian regimes often enforce strict clothing laws to assert their dominance over their citizens' physical and ...

I was trying to get into her life,” Khalid Mehdiyev said of targeting activist Masih Alinejad. “I was trying to get the easy ...