Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

‘Mother, they’re going to kill me’: Calls for international tribunal into Iran’s ‘illegal’ hanging

Daily Mail: A 23-year-old woman made a frantic phonecall to her mother begging for help before Iran authorities held a rushed execution - disregarding...

Iran hangs young woman for teenage crime she denied

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 1 - A young Iranian woman, who was accused of a committing a crime when she was 17 and...

Rights group urges Iran not to stone women

Iran Focus: London, Mar. 09 - Amnesty International on Monday urged Iran to suspend stoning sentences pending for eight women. Iran FocusLondon, Mar....

Relieving the Iran woman pressure

RFE/RL: An adviser to Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has said that female engineers can serve society from home. Radio Free Europe /...

Starting at home, Iran’s women fight for rights

New York Times: In a year of marriage, Razieh Qassemi, 19, says she was beaten repeatedly by her husband and his father. Her husband, she...

Lawyer: Iran detains women’s rights activist

AP: A lawyer for an Iranian activist says police detained the woman while she was campaigning for equal marriage rights for women. The...

Iran confirms stoning sentence against adulteress: report

AFP: Iran's supreme court has confirmed a sentence of death by stoning against a woman convicted of adultery in the southern city of Shiraz,...

Iran urged to halt “crackdown” on women activists

Reuters: U.N. human rights investigators called on Iran on Thursday to end what they called a "crackdown" on women's rights activists who have been...

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Iranian Regime Parliament Speaker: No Access Will Be Granted to Bombed Sites

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian regime's Majlis (parliament) and head of the Iranian regime's negotiating team,...

Tanker Trackers: Vessel Grounded in the Strait of Hormuz Belongs to Iran’s Oil Smuggling Network

Maritime monitoring firm TankerTrackers responded to Iranian regime media claims that a vessel had "run aground" after sailing outside...

The United States and Arab Allies Sanction Five Entities and 16 Hezbollah Officials

The United States and the member states of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) have imposed a new round...

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The ‘No To Executions Tuesdays’ campaign has entered its 127th week

The campaign “No to Executions Tuesdays,” a prisoner-led protest...

Escalating Iran-US Conflict Cuts Strait of Hormuz Traffic, Lifts Oil Prices

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Nicholas Sarkozy condemns Iran

Daily Telegraph: Nicholas Sarkozy, the French president, issued the...