Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Protests engulfing Iran have reached a point of "no return" as demonstrators demand wide reforms beyond the end of mandatory ...

As my fellow Iranian-American Lisa Daftari so eloquently put it: “It’s astonishing that Whoopi Goldberg would even suggest that life for black Americans is somehow equivalent to living under the rule ...

Iranian director Soheil Beiraghi almost landed in prison for his latest film, Bidad. Now it's landed him the Special Jury Award at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech ...

Iran executed at least 612 people in the first half of 2025—more than double the number put to death during the same period last year—prompting the UN’s top human rights official to demand an ...

The U.S. military attack on Iranian nuclear sites has been hailed as a remarkable feat of arms. B-2 stealth bombers flew thousands of miles, dropped bunker-busting bombs never before used in combat ...