Iranian women

Iran keeps Nobel laureate from urgent heart care as experts warn her life is in danger

"She is suffering from terrible headaches, nausea, and chest pain. That is what we are very worried about, her heart," her brother Hamidreza Mohammadi said in an interview.

 A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023.
Mira Nassiri. From crossing mountains into Turkey to confronting legal challenges in Canada, her story is one of persistence and pursuit.

Money, power, exile: Inside an Iranian exile’s war on regime-linked wealth in Canada

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.

Meet the lionesses of Iran leading the fight for freedom

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


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.

Iran's anti-government protests renew after three executed - report

At least seven Iranians who took part in the protests last year have been executed by Iranian authorities.

 A man gestures during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 19, 2022.

Iran: Women's cars can be impounded if they're caught without hijab

AAIRA's Lawdan Bazargan told the Post that the "Islamic regime of Iran is a gender-apartheid regime that has no respect for women, human life, or human dignity."

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

Iran shutters hundreds of business in hijab crackdown

After months of protests, Iranian police announced that they were amending how they enforce hijab regulations.

 Iranian women walk on a street amid the implementation of the new hijab surveillance in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2023.

Chemical attacks on Iranian schoolgirls resume

Poison gas attacks on schoolgirls in Iran have shocked the world for months, from the first reports in November, at the height of the protests against the regime.

 A group of schoolgirls in Iran.

Iran installs cameras in public places to identify, penalize unveiled women

According to a police statement, violators will receive “warning text messages as to the consequences” after being identified.

Women shop at a street in Tehran, Iran, November 29, 2021.

Hooman Khalili: Behind Israel's murals for the Iranian people - opinion

Hooman Khalili’s goal is to organize 18 murals across Israel and hopes to see them in cities like Haifa, Tiberias, Tel Aviv and (most notably) right next to the Gaza border.

 HOOMAN KHALILI (left) and Benzi Broffman, an Israeli graffiti artist, pose in front of the mural in Nazareth.

Women in Iran face 'yogurt attack' for being unveiled in public

President Ebrahim Raisi said in response on Saturday that the hijab was the law in Iran.

Iranian women take a picture of a presidential candidate with their mobile phones in Tehran , Iran

Iran's judiciary chief threatens to prosecute unveiled women 'without mercy'

A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching their veils since the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police.

 A woman walks after the morality police shut down in a street in Tehran, Iran December 6, 2022.