Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran won’t let women watch the world cup

The Daily Beast: Fans are experiencing further obstacles to watching the sports they love. Cinema owners had hoped to arrange screenings for this year’s World...

Iran’s population drive worries women’s rights, health advocates

Reuters: Iran's supreme leader has called for a population increase, in an edict likely to restrict access to contraception that critics fear could damage...

Iran Facebook page wants women lashed for unveiled photographs

Bloomberg: A Facebook page seeks lashes and imprisonment for Iranian women who posted photographs of themselves without headscarves on the social media website. The anonymous page...

When freedom is the right to stay under wraps

New York Times:  Cars honked frantically, their drivers in despair as separate columns of Iranian men and women in black chadors fist-pumped their way through...

Iran gets seat on U.N. body that presses for women’s rights

Washington Times: Iran won seats on five subcommittees of the U.N. Economic and Social Council earlier this week, including one to the Commission on the...

Iran rape victim bound for gallows unless she changes story

The Telegraph: An Iranian rape victim has been offered the option of avoiding the gallows if she complies with terms for forgiveness set by the...

Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari at imminent danger of execution

Death Penalty News: Reports from Iran indicate that the death sentence of the 26 year old Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari can be carried out...

Iranian rights lawyer summoned by Intelligence Ministry

Reuters: Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been summoned by Iran's Intelligence Ministry for questioning, her husband's Facebook page said, days after a video...

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Iran’s Regime Upholds Death Sentences of Five Political Prisoners in Ahvaz

Karoon Human Rights Organization reported that the death sentences of five political prisoners held in Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz...

Political Prisoner Yahgoub Derakhshan Sentenced to Death for a Second Time

Yahgoub Derakhshan, a political prisoner and supporter of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held in Lakan Prison...

Widespread Student Protests Across the Country; Opposition to Educational Policies

Student protests against the educational policies of the Iranian regime, particularly the issue of the mandatory impact of grade...

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Iran’s Regime Executes Two More Protesters from the January Uprising

This morning, two more protesters were executed by Iran's...

The Collapse of Iran’s Economic Resilience

The latest international reports show that the Iranian regime’s...

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Iran’s military chief warns of aggressive strategy

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 – The supreme...