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NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said women's issues are "one of the most sensitive issues and one of the ...

Elham Destani, an Iranian solo traveler, finds herself stranded at the Attari border, living out of her van as her visa nears ...

University of Ottawa provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. In Iran’s 2022–2023 “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, women’s bodies quite literally became battlefields.

Helicopters and aircraft dumped water from the air on the raging fire through the night into Sunday morning at the Shahid ...

In Iran, a wave of arrests and harassment of women singers has swept the music industry. Some artists have found some fame by releasing music on social media. Authorities are tracking them down, too.

The release of a newly surfaced audio recording has once again thrust Iran’s 1988 massacre of political prisoners into the ...

In Iran’s 2022–2023 “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, women’s bodies quite literally became battlefields. The protest movement erupted after the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini, who ...

Security experts are urging the U.S. to consider Iran's human rights abuses in its nuclear talks with Tehran as executions ...

Iranian runner Parisa Arab won fifth place and received a $3,500 prize in the Basra International Half Marathon Competition, ...

The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.