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 ...

Before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran was often described as a vibrant and diverse country, where life flourished under a relatively liberal social framework. Women actively participated in society ...

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 ...

Iran’s parliament on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, approved a bill to impose heavier penalties on women who refuse to wear the mandatory Islamic headscarf in public and those who support them.

(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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

On Saturday, Iran's chief prosecutor, Mohamed Jafar Montazeri, said the religious police "had been closed," in a report published by the semi-official news agency, ISNA.

Last month’s war with Israel and the United States lasted only 12 days, but Iran is likely to feel its consequences for years ...

CAIRO (AP) — Confusion over the status of Iran’s religious police grew as state media cast doubt on reports the force had been shut down. Despite the uncertainty, it has appeared for weeks ...