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

The murder of Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 triggered the eruption of 50-years of rage that Iranians inside and outside of the country have been harboring. It erupted with the screams and frustrated tears ...

March is Women’s History Month, and this month we will be taking a closer look at the female artists featured in Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection.

TEHRAN — Each trip I make to Iran is a source of fresh wonder. Last year the encroaching war in Iraq, a country that shares a long and conflict-ridden border with Iran, discouraged many Americans and ...

As Iranian women defy the law and let their hair down, Tehran's conservative wing sounds alarm to judiciary, says it 'cannot ...

Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz doesn’t know how to start a movie. The first time we see Leila, her alter ego in the autobiographical, warm-hearted, personal, funny but also somewhat ...

Since coming to power in July 2024, President Masoud Pezeshkian has maintained that women cannot be forced to wear the hijab.

Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian is awaiting trial for working with female dancers and singers after being arrested earlier this month, in the country's latest move to stop women artists performing.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 's long imprisonment has captured global attention and has now been brought to the screen in the ...