Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iranian cleric defends earthquake-promiscuity link

AP: A prominent hard-line Iranian cleric elaborated on his claim that promiscuity and immodest dress cause earthquakes, saying Friday that God may be holding...

EXCLUSIVE: U.N. elects Iran to Commission on Women’s Rights

FOX News: Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat...

Suntanned women to be arrested under Islamic dress code

Daily Telegraph: Iran has warned suntanned women and girls who looked like "walking mannequins" will be arrested as part of a new drive...

Iranian cleric: Promiscuous women cause quakes

AP: A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes. The Associated PressBy...

Claims of savage rape emerge from Iran’s prisons

AP: An Iranian opposition leader said Sunday that detained protesters are alleging male and female prisoners were savagely raped by their jailers to the...

Women in Iran’s protests: head scarves and rocks

AP: For years, women's defiance in Iran came in carefully planned flashes of hair under their head scarves, brightly painted fingernails and trendy clothing...

Young woman commits suicide in Iran prison after torture

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 04 - A female prisoner has committed suicide to escape “unbearable torture” by prison guards, according to reports from...

Iran women’s rights activist beaten in prison

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 26 - An Iranian women's rights activist was beaten by inmates inside a prison in the western province of...

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The Secret of the Kolang Mountain Nuclear Shelter

The Iranian regime's nuclear secrecy deep inside Kolang Mountain demonstrates its prioritization of destructive nuclear projects and its insistence...

Ghezel Hesar Prisoners Enter Ninth Day of Dry Hunger Strike

The mass hunger strike by death row prisoners in Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj entered its...

Iran’s Economy on the Brink of Hyperinflation

Masoud Nili, a regime-affiliated economist and faculty member at the Department of Management and Economics of Sharif University of...

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Iran’s Economy on the Brink of Hyperinflation

Masoud Nili, a regime-affiliated economist and faculty member at...

Eighth Day of Hunger Strike by 1,500 Prisoners in Ghezel Hesar Prison

The hunger strike and sit-in by about 1,500 prisoners...

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