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 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 ...

Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A female student at an Iranian university has been arrested after reportedly stripping off her clothes in protest against the Islamic regime's strict dress code.

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 ...

On June 15, 2019, two spectators were removed from the Women’s World Cup match between Canada and New Zealand in Grenoble for wearing clothing displaying the message: “Let Iranian Women Enter ...

The wearing of a hijab (or headscarf) in public is mandatory for women under Iran’s strict interpretation of Islamic law that is enforced by the country’s so-called morality police.

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.

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.

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: In Iran, female singers are facing a wave of arrests and harassment. The country's religious government does not permit women to perform alone on stage.

(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.

In October 2023, Iranian teenage Armita Geravand was injured in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s metro while not wearing a headscarf. She later died in the hospital after falling into a coma.