Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Women biggest victims of Iran quake

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 25 – More than two thousand women in the earthquake-stricken city of Bam in southern Iran live in extreme poverty,...

649 under-14 girls arrested in Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 23 – The commander of Iran's State Security Forces in Tehran announced that 649 teenage girls under 14 years...

Iran denies women can run for presidency: Update

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 22 – Iran has denied allowing women to take part in this year's presidential elections. This morning Reuters news agency...

Iran denies allowing women to take part in presidential elections

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 22 – Iran has denied allowing women to take part in this year's presidential elections. This morning Reuters news agency...

Eighty-nine percent of unemployed women in Iran highly educated

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 17 – Eighty-nine percent of unemployed women in Iran are highly educated, with many in universities, according to a senior...

Victim’s family pardons Iranian woman, seeks blood money

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 12 - A woman sentenced to death for killing a senior police officer who tried to rape her has been...

Friday Prayers Leader denounces mal-veiling in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 10 - Iran’s Friday Prayers Leader for the city of Urumiyeh (northwest Iran) demanded a harsher crackdown on “mal-veiling” in...

Iran’s conservative MPs turn to fashion design

AFP: Deputies in Iran's conservative-run parliament have begun preparing designs for what will be a new national costume aimed at stemming the encroachment of...

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Iran’s Regime Rejects Retrial Request by Protester Sentenced to Death

On Wednesday, September 2, human rights media outlets reported the continued detention and interrogation of opponents of Iran's regime,...

Corruption in Iran’s Ports Reaches the Regime’s Parliament

The corruption case in Iran’s ports has once again become one of the controversial issues in the regime’s parliament....

Heavy Collapse in Iranian Workers’ Purchasing Power Over the Past 10 Years

In recent years, and particularly in the months following the recent war, workers’ “real wages” in Iran have experienced...

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