Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian is awaiting trial for working with female dancers and singers after being arrested earlier ...

As the referee's whistle signalled the start of the match, two five-year-old Iranian girls faced off, delivering a closely ...

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 ...

As Iranians prepare to head to the polls to vote in the 12th parliamentary election since the Islamic Revolution, a record number of female candidates are among the thousands vying for one of 290 ...

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 ...

Of the many paradoxes presented by the Islamic Republic of Iran, the most confounding remains its stubborn preoccupation with regulating women. The 1979 revolution that brought fundamentalist clerics ...

A member of the Iranian police force stands on a street during the revival of morality police in Tehran, Iran, July 16, 2023. automation "We Iranian girls are not afraid of anything anymore," said ...

A coalition of top athletes including Riley Gaines and Martina Navratilova condemned Iranian regime's death sentence for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...