Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi withdrew from a long-planned interview with CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday ...

Women in Iran will still be required to wear the hijab under Islamic ... Women participate in a rally supporting the mandatory wearing of head scarves at Shiroudi stadium, Dec. 1, 2022, in ...

Women in Iran have found a middle ground in the struggle between those who want to cover their hair and those who don't in a new campaign called White Wednesday or "Wednesday without compulsion." ...

Women have been casting off their legally required head scarves, forming the primary image of the protests. But grievances against a repressive regime go far beyond the hijab.

GENEVA - Iran's women's team was correctly prevented from playing a 2012 Olympics qualifier wearing Islamic head scarves, FIFA said Monday. Iranian officials were "informed thoroughly" before ...

Iran women's rights movement endures on anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death ... we decided to post Instagram stories showing our followers different ways they can fashion their scarves into tops ...

Lengthy prison terms, hefty fines, and travel bans. Those are among the punishments facing women who violate Iran's new hijab law.. Approved on November 30, the Hijab And Chastity law has ...

EMERGING from a carpet shop in Iran’s beautiful and ancient city of Esfahan, I was engulfed by a group of jostling young men.

It was the quietest protest Iran has ever witnessed. Vida Movahed, a thirty-one-year-old mother of a toddler, stood atop a large utility box on Tehran’s busy Enghelab Street and removed the ...

GENEVA, March 20 (Reuters) - Iran's authorities have committed violations in recent months that may amount to crimes against humanity, a U.N.-appointed expert told the Human Rights Council on ...

In the early 1950s, Iran had a liberal prime minister who promised to stop shipping the country's resource riches offshore, but that was not going to work for the West.