Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran sentences woman to death by stoning

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 11 – An Islamic court in Tehran sentenced a woman to stoning for adultery in the town of Varamin,...

Iran hangs young woman in prison

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 08 – A young Iranian woman was hanged in prison in the north-eastern town of Shirevan, a state-run daily...

Iran women block off road during protest

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 07 – Dozens of women blockaded a main road leading to Tehran during a protest on Monday. Iran...

Women protest against Iran-linked torture centres in Iraq

Iran Focus: Baghdad, Dec. 05 – Iraqi women gathered outside a political party headquarters in Baghdad protesting secret prisons and torture chambers run by...

Iran court sentences woman to hanging

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 23 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a woman, state dailies reported on Wednesday. ...

Iran sentences woman to death by hanging

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a woman who had been accused of murdering...

Iran’s Ansar-e Hezbollah vows to root out mal-veiling

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 11 – The radical group Ansar-e Hezbollah pledged to Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that it would root out...

Two-thirds of Iran women victims of domestic abuse: official

AFP: Two thirds of Iranian women have suffered domestic violence and a quarter are unhappy with their gender, a social welfare official said Monday....

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Iran’s Negative Economic Growth: From Statistical Manipulation to the Collapse of Investment

When the gap between official figures and reality becomes too wide, the economic crisis is no longer confined to...

Iraq Sets September 30 as Deadline for Disarmament of Iranian Regime-Backed Militia Groups

Iraqi government spokesperson Haider al-Aboudi announced on Monday, June 29, that the government has given Shiite armed groups backed...

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

Oil Prices Rise and Ship Traffic Through the Strait of Hormuz Declines Following Tensions Between Iran and the United...

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