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 ...

An ongoing internet blackout and intensifying crackdowns are obstructing documentation of abuses in Iran, as women human rights defenders face arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment, and prolonged detention.

Thousands of miles from home, British-Iranian women are haunted and sustained by every notification, blackout, and unanswered call.

There were nightclubs and bars. People mixed freely. Women could dress however they wanted: tight jeans, mini-skirts, hair loose. The king drove around in a luxury Cadillac, appeared to have a soft ...

Iranians’ demand for change is not a political preference, but a civilisational instinct; and a free Iran — rooted in its ...

A daughter of the Iranian diaspora grapples with feelings of hopefulness and futility during an extraordinary moment of protests.

NEW YORK (AP) — The tears come quickly to Masih Alinejad when she talks about the messages she's received in recent days from women in Iran protesting against their government after a young woman died ...

Behind Iran’s ancient sites and legendary hospitality, women are holding together a tourism industry shaped by sanctions and geopolitics. In this World Tourism Network feature, Shahrzad Moayeri shares ...

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...

Instructor Maryam Ghelich (L) gives women students a lesson in riding motorbikes at a training centre in northern Tehran — ATTA KENARE When she first started learning to ride a motorbike, Iranian ...