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 ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed Western capitalist systems reduce women to objects and erode their basic dignity. He added ...

Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the Islamic Republic has disproved western false logic that Hijab will hinder women’s progress. In a meeting with a group of women and girls on ...

Decades of protest show Iranians are pushing for non-violent democratic change—and the world’s solidarity could help make it ...

Shervin Hajipour, the Iranian Grammy Award winner whose hit song became the anthem of the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, has ...

More Iranian women are choosing to forgo the country's mandatory hijab. This shift was unthinkable just a few years ago in ...

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 ...

Reza Khandan was arrested in December 2024 for supporting women’s rights in Iran, and creating thousands of homemade buttons that said, “I Oppose the Mandatory Hijab.” He had previously been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. The Iranian regime continues to ramp up efforts to restrict the ...

Iran was still reeling from news in late January that a 17-year-old girl was fatally stabbed by her father in the country's northwest when news broke that another 17-year-old was shot by her father ...

A woman without a headscarf holds a sign reading, "For Freedom" in Farsi, beside a burning dumpster amid protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran's mandatory hijab law in Tehran on Oct. 1, 2022.

Facial recognition systems identify women flouting hijab law Technology also used to target protesters, dissidents Activists fear more arrests, abuses after death of Mahsa Amini Sept 21 (Thomson ...