Dozens of female students in Iran have been summoned to attend "mandatory counseling sessions" for failing to wear their hijab "properly" following months of women’s rights and anti-regime ...

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist, author, and women's rights activist who the IRGC attempted to assassinate, commented on X, “In Iran, a student harassed by her university’s ...

Women in Iran have been compelled to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise their figures since the implementation of Sharia Law, following the 1979 revolution.

An image taken from video shared widely on social media shows a female student sitting in her underwear outside Tehran's Islamic Azad University after she removed her clothing in protest of ...

(CNN) — A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code.

Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and ...

Under Iran’s Islamic sharia law, imposed after the 1979 revolution, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise their figures.

Exhibit of poetry, art and fashion showcases Iranian history and women’s struggle for human rights "The Seen Iranian Women" exhibit, on display in the University Union Gallery through Nov. 16, uses ...

Iranian women opposing the hijab also continued to post pictures of themselves without the compulsory scarf on social media, in a challenge of the new police plan to identify culprits by using ...

Since September 2022, Iran has been rocked by anti-government protests led by women, triggered by the death of a young woman in police custody. The reasons driving the unrest date back decades.

The exhibit, named "Restless Anahita," features pictures of traditional Iranian clothing and Iranian women's daily lives that he captured during his most recent journey back to Iran.