As I prepared to take a photograph of an anti-American mural outside of the former U.S. Embassy in Iran’s capital recently, a ...

A contentious bill backed by right-wing politicians that would ban headscarves in all sporting competitions has cleared its first legislative hurdle in the Senate ...

Truck drivers in Iran continued a nearly week-long strike on Wednesday, incensed by low salaries, high insurance rates, and a ...

Less than three years after the brutal crackdown on the protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police ...

Iran’s National Security Council has halted implementation of the controversial headscarf law.“The Security Council has instructed us not to implement the hijab (headscarf) law,” said Parliament ...

GENEVA: Iran is relying on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the mandatory headscarf in public, a UN report said Friday. The findings of the Independent ...

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties ...

The fearless woman then wrapped the turban around her head as a headscarf in a defiant act of protest - before Iran's morality police swooped in to arrest her. The fiery confrontation kicked off ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Seemingly every afternoon in Iran’s capital ... Amini after she was detained for not wearing a scarf to the authorities’ liking. A United Nations panel ...

Even after suffering the savage beating, Heshmati refused to wear a headscarf provided for her by officials, Iran International reported. All women in Iran have been required by law to cover ...

Iranian actresses who defy Iran's so-called morality police and go out in public without a headscarf have been banned from working. Many remain defiant, even as locals pay an increasingly high ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media reported Saturday.