Iranian women are taking off their hijabs, defying authorities and the oppression they face at the hands of the government.

More women in Tehran are riding motorbikes despite legal and cultural barriers, reflecting shifting attitudes toward women’s ...

In the ongoing struggle for democracy in Iran, women have emerged as some of the most influential and unifying voices, championing secularism, equality and inclusive governance. Over the past 150 ...

Senior Revolutionary Guards general, Hassan-Nia, rebuked the president's comments this week, arguing: “Dialogue won’t fix the ...

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 ...

When I saw photos of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for the first time, I felt like I was looking at someone who was a part of my family; someone I know without a doubt I would have loved had I known her. It ...

Momentum is steadily growing toward transformative change in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and with it comes greater awareness of the fact that women will be among the greatest agents of that change.

The “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran is much more than a “tug of war” over whether women should be required to wear the hijab, said exiled poet, scholar and feminist activist Fatemeh Shams at ...

A woman without a headscarf holds a sign reading, "For Freedom" in Farsi, beside a burning dumpster amid protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran's mandatory hijab law in Tehran on Oct. 1, 2022.

In the heart of Iran, Christian women are at the forefront of a silent revolution. While Women’s History Month celebrates the freedoms enjoyed by women in the United States, it’s crucial to ...

Never in history have the women of a nation suffered so profound a reversal of their rights and status as the women of Iran did in 1979. Islamists and Marxists joined together to overthrow a secular, ...

In a country where lone women are banned by law from raising their voice in song in front of men, Iran's first woman ...