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

When 38-year-old Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to drive her yellow motorbike through the gridlocked streets of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Merat Behnam drives her motorbike in downtown Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 1 Police called twice to Kris Jenner’s 70th ...

Iranian police arrested 300 people at a party in the central city of Semnan because the event allowed the mixing of men and women. Colonel Ali Mirahmadi, deputy commander of Semnan Province's law ...

Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...

Nazanin Boniadi is an Iranian-born human rights activist, actress, and 2023 Sydney Peace Laureate. The Islamic Republic of Iran was built upon bricks of patriarchal misogyny. One of the first acts of ...

The Women’s Assembly of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party issued a written statement condemning the approval of a death sentence for Kurdish activist and labor rights ...

In September 2022, young Mahsa Amini was killed by the morality police in Iran. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman was severely beaten for allegedly improperly wearing the veil and violating the strict ...

Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz doesn’t know how to start a movie. The first time we see Leila, her alter ego in the autobiographical, warm-hearted, personal, funny but also somewhat ...

It has been one year since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after morality police arrested her in Tehran. Her death unleashed decades of pent-up anger over Iran’s clerical rule and sparked the country’s ...