Her lifeless body was found nine days after going missing following which the government claimed she killed herself. To ...
Iranian women are being sexually assaulted, tasered and beaten in a fresh morality police crackdown on those flouting ...
After a recent order from Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, "morality police" are increasing patrols, and women who ...
A new campaign, called Noor (“light” in Persian) is cracking down on “violations” of the country’s draconian hijab rules, ...
There’s no length Iran won’t go to in order to quash dissent. Murder included. Last week, the Islamic Republic Revolutionary ...
Videos shared on social media purportedly show dreaded unit enforcing hijab rules deploying in force, sweeping women off the ...
But in 2017, Trump ripped up the deal and reimposed sanctions. Millions of Iranians entered poverty. And the Iranian ...
Despite averting a war with Israel for now, Tehran is nervous. It is cracking down on critics and women who disobey the ...
Nika Shakarami's disappearance and death were widely reported, and her picture has become synonymous with the fight by women ...
The elder sister of Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old girl who was killed during the 2022 anti-government protests in Iran, has ...
The subsequent rise of a repressive theocracy in Iran underscored the gravity of the situation. While initial media reports portrayed a more open atmosphere under the ayatollah, it has become ...
With Israeli bombardments hitting close to home, Iranian clerics and officials have cracked down harder on dissent. Hijab-wearing is now more strictly enforced, with hundreds of women in prison for ...