Iranian women

The Iranian people are not their regime: Meet the lionesses

They tried to silence them, but these women roar louder than ever

A woman wearing a Lion and Sun Iranian flag (used before the 1980 Islamic Revolution) holds a sign during a protest in solidarity with the anti-government protesters of Iran on February 14, 2026.
Shamim Mafi, 44, driving a luxury vehicle in an undated picture; illustrative.

LAX authorities arrest Iranian national attempting to traffic arms to Sudan for Islamic regime

PEOPLE ATTEND a funeral ceremony for the Head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' intelligence organisation, Majid Khademi, who was killed in strikes according to Iranian and Israeli statements, in Tehran, Iran, April 8, 2026.

Iranians fear harsher regime crackdown after war with US ends

Iran and Israel flags on Middle east geopolitical map.

Three chessboards, one war: One month into the second Iran war - opinion


Why is Iran’s regime so afraid of Kurdish dissidents? - analysis

Iran has tended to believe it can oppress minority groups in specific ways and that the groups will not unite in protest at the same time.

 PAK FIGHTERS at their base in Pirde, Kirkuk Province.

Iran Guards detain dual national for 'organizing unrest and sabotage'

The Revolutionary Guards detained a dual national suspected of "trying to organize unrest and sabotage," on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death.

 Khatareh Plesnick, from Baltimore, poses during a march in support of women's rights in Iran on the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, outside the White House in Washington, U.S., September 16, 2023.

Iranian female inmates set fire to Tehran's Evan prison in protest

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network had said earlier that special forces beat up the imprisoned women before gaining control of the fire.

 A view of the entrance of Evin prison in Tehran, Iran October 17, 2022

A year after Mahsa Amini’s death, has anything changed in Iran?

IRANIAN AFFAIRS: Despite the Iranian regime clamping down with modesty laws, the Iranian people are pushing for freedom.

 A PHOTO OF Mahsa Amini is pictured at a vigil of students and activists from Delhi University in New Delhi, India, last September following her death.

Iran slams opposition abroad for 'profiting' off of Mahsa Amini protests

Mass protests rocked Iran last fall and continued into January as a result of the killing of the young Kurdish girl by the Iranian regime.

A newspaper with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by Iranian morality police is seen in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2022.

'Gender apartheid': UN slams Iran's modesty laws, one year to Amini's killing

The UN said that this is "gender discrimination designed to bring the women of Iran into complete submission."

 A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran on September 19, 2022.

Iranian chess player who removed hijab gets Spanish citizenship

The 26-year-old has told Reuters she had no regrets over her gesture in support of the protest movement against her country's clerical leadership.

Sara Khadem of Iran plays against Olga Girya of Russia.

What Iran doubling down on hijab enforcement means - analysis

Iranian media has relaunched attacks against the family of murdered Mahsa Jina Amini, who was killed for not wearing the hijab.

 Iranian Americans rally outside the White House on September 24, 2022, in support of anti-regime protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini.

Repression by the morality police: Iran’s ethnic minority ‘taming’ policy - opinion

As South Azerbaijani dissident Babek Chalabi noted, the world needs to "break free from Iran's nurturing of terrorism."

 IRANIAN POLICE officers patrol a street amid the revival of the morality police in Tehran, this week.

Woman in Iran dies jumping out of moving taxi's car window - report

After discovering the Iranian taxi's doors were locked, the woman climbed into the front passenger seat and jumped out of the window of the moving taxi. The taxi continued driving afterwards.

Iran's riot police forces stand on a street amid the implementation of the new hijab surveillance in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2023.