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 ...

Thousands of young Muslim women in France are sidelined from competitive sport because of rules in several disciplines ...

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 ...

Despite facing potential repercussions, Iranian women are increasingly defying mandatory hijab laws following Jina Mahsa Amini's death, challenging the state's authority. While some conservatives ...

And I’d like to premise this by saying that if the situation were different in Iran, if we were in a country without a mandatory headscarf and without many other restrictions, I would’ve made ...

Diplomats have warned that a collapse of US-Iran negotiations or a new nuclear deal that does not alleviate Israeli concerns about Iran developing nuclear weapons could motivate Israeli strikes ...

Wearing a hijab, or headscarf, remains mandatory in Iran. However, even before the nationwide protests following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody in September 2022, Motahari was one of ...

Iranian women increasingly resist the public headscarf rule. Despite ongoing repression, Iran's regime seems powerless to stop social change. https://p.dw.com/p/4ugrN ...