For the past two decades, filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi (“Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness”) has captured his two nieces growing up ...

Iranian law controls how women dress, what they drive and what they do in public. But now, more women across Iran are rebelling — risking severe fines or up to 10 years in prison.

In many cities around the world, change often starts quietly. It begins with small acts that would seem ordinary anywhere ...

NORTHAM: Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, based in New York, says for years, the authorities would harass and arrest women who dared to go out in the street ...

As the referee's whistle signalled the start of the match, two five-year-old Iranian girls faced off, delivering a closely ...

Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz doesn’t know how to start a movie. The first time we see Leila, her alter ego in the autobiographical, warm-hearted, personal, funny but also somewhat ...

Iran wrapped up the table tennis events at the Islamic Solidarity Games with five medals, as the women’s squad delivered the ...

As we have come to expect, the Iranian regime reacted to the uprising with horrific brutality. But in the end, the courageous women who were on the streets shouting one of the most profound yet easily ...

A Iranian musician was flogged on Wednesday as part of his sentence for making a song in support of women's rights in Iran. File Photo by EPA-EFE March 6 (UPI) --Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi ...

This year, we have witnessed perhaps the most significant protest against the Iranian regime since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In response, the bloodthirst of the mullahs has been on full display.

TEHRAN — Each trip I make to Iran is a source of fresh wonder. Last year the encroaching war in Iraq, a country that shares a long and conflict-ridden border with Iran, discouraged many Americans and ...

As the referee’s whistle signalled the start of the match, two 5-year-old Iranian girls faced off, delivering a closely ...