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

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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 ...

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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.

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In Nooshie Motaref's unpublished manuscript of Persian fairy tales, the girls run the show. The women in these stories are not damsels in distress waiting at the top of a tower for the arrival of ...

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