Young people across Iran have been leading a dramatic change in social mores in recent months. “We have a fearless young ...

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 ...

In many cities around the world, change often starts quietly. It begins with small acts that would seem ordinary anywhere else. In Tehran, those acts stand out in a very different way.

When West Vancouver psychotherapist and clinical counsellor Poran Poregbal began exploring the inner lives of Iranian women ...

British-Iranian journalist Jonathan Harounoff discusses his new book 'Unveiled: Inside Iran's #WomanLifeFreedom Revolt.' “A country can’t be free unless all women are free” is one of the central ...

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.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- On the streets of Iranian cities, it's becoming more common to see a woman passing by without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, as the second anniversary of the ...

Their prominence in the ongoing struggle for human rights has been met with fierce crackdowns by the state. Amid Iran’s heightened, unconscionable mass scale of executions and a growing abolitionist ...

As my fellow Iranian-American Lisa Daftari so eloquently put it: “It’s astonishing that Whoopi Goldberg would even suggest that life for black Americans is somehow equivalent to living under the rule ...

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, ...

Iranian dissidents are speaking out over Whoopi Goldberg’s “offensive” claim that life for black Americans is equivalent to living under Iran’s brutal autocracy. “Whoopi Goldberg’s comparison between ...