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

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

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Iranian security forces detained Mahsa Amini’s father Saturday on the one year anniversary of the 22-year-old’s death in their custody, which sparked widespread demonstrations across the country, ...

Sources close to the family of the late Iranian-Kurdish student Mahsa Amini have told Radio Farda on September 15 that security forces "have surrounded their home" in Saghez and prevented them from ...

According to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Amini's father, mother and brother were prevented from boarding a flight at Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport on Saturday. They ...

Sadjadpour is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The Islamic Republic of Iran has thus far proved too ideologically rigid to reform and too ruthless to collapse. As in ...

Protests have erupted across Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian who died in police custody earlier this month. Amini was arrested for improperly wearing her hijab in violation ...

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died on September 16th in Tehran after being detained and allegedly beaten by Iran’s morality police for wearing an “improper” hijab – exposing too much of ...

Board-certified rheumatologist Dr. Mahsa Tehrani explains how the H3N2 flu strain could affect the upcoming winter season on ...

"Mahsa is well known in the community by hundreds of families there," Geoff Stollery said, who is the owner of a childcare ...