In the ongoing struggle for democracy in Iran, women have emerged as some of the most influential and unifying voices, championing secularism, equality and inclusive governance. Over the past 150 ...

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties for ...

Israel and the United States say that their attacks on Iran are for the benefit of its women. Iranian feminists couldn’t disagree more. Young Iranian women walk past a banner featuring portraits of ...

GENEVA (AFP) — More than 400 prominent women, including four Nobel laureates and several former presidents and prime ...

Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...

Haines shared her statement in an Instagram story after a fiery discussion of the conflict between Israel and Iran between the hosts during Hot Topics, the opening segment of the ABC daytime program. ...

Iran in 2024 executed at least 31 women, an NGO said on Monday, warning that female prisoners were increasingly being caught in a surge in the use of capital punishment in the Islamic republic. Norway ...

Never in history have the women of a nation suffered so profound a reversal of their rights and status as the women of Iran did in 1979. Islamists and Marxists joined together to overthrow a secular, ...

Iranian journalist Zeinab Rahimi has refused to wear the mandatory hijab for over two years, despite the risk of arrest and imprisonment. She is among a growing number of women and girls who have ...

TEHRAN, Iran — Two of the main organizers of a marathon in Iran have been arrested after pictures circulated on social media showing women competing without the mandatory headscarf. “One of those ...

An Iranian woman protests the death of Mahsa Amini death after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 1, 2022 (AP photo). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click ...