Iranian lawmakers have pushed through changes to the dowry law, further weakening women's rights and aggravating gender discrimination in the Islamic Republic.

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 ...

Iranian journalist Zeinab Rahimi has refused to wear the mandatory hijab for over two years, despite the risk of arrest and imprisonment. She is among a growing number of women and girls who have ...

Are These Iran Protests Different? What Is Somaliland, and Do We Have to Care About It? Israeli and American efforts to degrade the military, nuclear, and oppressive capabilities of the regime ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a recent evening in the north of Iran’s capital of Tehran, a young woman with long hair fashioned into a high ponytail hopped onto a motorcycle behind a male companion. Not far away, two other ...

Veiled Iranian women gather outside a sports hall, waiting to participate in a celebration introducing Iran's 1404 Lady of the Year, held in commemoration of National Mother's Day in downtown Tehran, ...

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 ...

The Iranian judiciary on December 6 said it had arrested two organizers of a marathon after some women competed in the event without wearing the mandatory hijab, the Islamic head scarf. "Despite ...