Tehran police said they will launch a new phase of enforcement of the mandatory hijab law from April 13 even though the new "hijab and chastity" bill has yet to be approved by the country's ...
The same day Iran launched its first ever direct attack on Israel it embarked on a less-noticed confrontation at home, ordering police in several cities to take to the streets to arrest women accused ...
Police in Iran announced a new crackdown Saturday on women who ignore the country's strict Islamic dress code that makes it compulsory for them to wear headscarves in public.
The move comes amid continuous protests against the government's strict hijab rules that followed the death of activist Mahsa Amini, who was rounded up last September for allegedly wearing the ...
Meanwhile, media who question attacks are charged with 'disrupting the psychological security of society', and Islamic ...
Iranian women walk through rain in a flower market, ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran, March 16, 2023. [VOA] President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab was the law in ...
Iran’s authorities are installing cameras in public places to identify women defying the country’s compulsory dress code. On Saturday, local police said cameras will be installed in public ...
Move is aimed at trying to quiet protests that have taken place across the country, analysts say. Iran’s attorney general said the country had disbanded its so-called morality police and is ...
Drone and missile arsenal 'growing' Iran's missile and drone arsenal is growing, according to reports from within the country. Jahan News, a website closely linked with Iran's Islamic ...
A Kurdish-Iranian woman named Roya Heshmati was whipped 74 times after a photo of her was published a few months ago in which she was seen not wearing a hijab in Tehran, Iranian human rights ...
The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, ...