DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — For Googoosh, Iran's most-famous singer, life always has been balancing act of one kind or ...

The human rights organization Hengaw said Iranian security agencies detained over 300 women for political or ideological reasons last year, with more than 100 still facing imprisonment for various ...

As the referee's whistle signalled the start of the match, two five-year-old Iranian girls faced off, delivering a closely watched karate bout to a captivated audience -- a sign of the changing ...

In December 2023, the presence of 3,000 women at the Tehran derby between Persepolis and Esteghlal seemed to indicate progress in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Female fans had been banned from ...

Iranian authorities banned directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha from attending the Berlinale for the world premiere of their film, a story of a 70-year-old woman who tries to rekindle her ...

In her first-ever interview with a U.S. media outlet, Jamileh Alamolhoda, the wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, sat down with Newsweek Senior Foreign Policy Writer and Deputy Editor of National ...

Since Iran announced it would hold a snap presidential election on Friday, June 28 after the sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month, Iranian activists have taken to ...

Iranian human rights attorney and activist Nasrin Satoudeh holds a photo of her husband outside Tehran's Evin Prison, where he is an inmate. Reza Khandan was taken into custody in December on charges ...

On December 14, 2024, in an unprecedented move, the Supreme National Security Council, a twelve-member body tasked with ensuring Iran’s foreign and domestic security, intervened to halt the ...