TEHRAN, Iran — When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ride her yellow scooter through the gridlocked streets of Iran 's capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn't her main worry.
The Iranian judiciary on December 6 said it has arrested two organizers of a marathon after some women competed in the event without wearing required hijabs, the Islamic headscarf that covers the head ...
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 ...
TEHRAN—A customary headscarf of Lor women called ‘Golvani’ is not just a piece of clothing. It is a combination of history, ...
Of the many paradoxes presented by the Islamic Republic of Iran, the most confounding remains its stubborn preoccupation with regulating women. The 1979 revolution that brought fundamentalist clerics ...
An elevated view of city skyline seen from one of the upper decks of Milad Tower in Tehran, Iran, June 20, 2021. automation A woman at an Iranian university stripped down to her underwear in an ...
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 ...