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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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