The Islamic Republic has long presented itself as protector of women’s dignity — which is why, while a dead male protester is ...

When was the last time your mother, sister, wife, or daughter let you forget something that they didn’t like? We Persian women don’t forget. I should know, I am one and was raised by one: a refugee of ...

In November 2025, Omid Sarlak, a young man living in western Iran, posted a video on social media showing himself setting fire to a photograph of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Just hours after the ...

The broadcast by Iranian state-controlled television of interviews with several women not wearing the Muslim headscarf during ...

Israel and the United States say that their attacks on Iran are for the benefit of its women. Iranian feminists couldn’t disagree more. On June 14, a day after Israel launched a series of airstrikes ...

Ahead of The Persian Version ‘s wide theatrical release on Nov. 2, Keshavarz spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about portraying the complicated generational relationships among one family’s women, ...

Over three years after the suspicious death of Jina Mahsa Amini sparked a nationwide protest movement in Iran, artists continue to fuel creative resistance.

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 ...

Never in history have the women of a nation suffered so profound a reversal of their rights and status as the women of Iran did in 1979. Islamists and Marxists joined together to overthrow a secular, ...

The new resolution comes amid widespread unrest in Iran, where massive nationwide protests triggered by economic hardship and a severe government crackdown have shaken cities across the country.

The eyes of the world are currently on Iran, where tens of thousands of people are demanding an end to the mullah regime. We’re shedding light on the story of the Iranian Revolution of 1979.