On first visit to Iran's capital since 2022 anti-hijab protests, AP reporter sees women openly flout headscarf laws; ...

More Iranian women are choosing to forgo the country's mandatory hijab. This shift was unthinkable just a few years ago in ...

When West Vancouver psychotherapist and clinical counsellor Poran Poregbal began exploring the inner lives of Iranian women ...

As you enter Iran’s capital, it starts with only occasional glimpses—a passenger in a car speeding by or a pedestrian trying ...

Paniz Faryoussefi, who made history last week as the first woman to conduct the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, says she hopes her ...

Directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni explore the life of Sara Shahverdi as they capture her teaching girls to ride ...

In 2022 he believed he had made his last film — this year he won Cannes’s top prize with political kidnapping drama ‘It Was ...

November 28 marks the 82nd anniversary of the Tehran conference, where the Allied ‘Big Three’ Franklin D Roosevelt, Joseph ...

Iran publicly executed a man last Tuesday who was accused of raping two women in the Senman province, the judiciary’s ...

Women's professional and cultural lives are still heavily restricted in the conservative Islamic republic, particularly in terms of public performance before mixed-gender audiences.

Thousands of Iranian protesters were arrested in the months after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, following her arrest for ...

Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian is awaiting trial for working with female dancers and singers after being arrested earlier ...