Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably ...

Iranian authorities have detained a young woman who was seen walking around a university in Tehran in her underwear, according to video shared on social media and state news agencies, in what ...

On International Women’s Day 1979, Iranian women protested Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s compulsory hijab and new dress codes ...

Iran plans to mobilize 80,000 new morality police officers in Tehran to enforce compliance with Islamic dress codes that require women to wear their headscarves more consistently, according to an ...

While dancing and singing in public is forbidden for Iranian women, the mothers and sisters of those who were murdered by the regime started singing and dancing loudly in public and hold back their ...

Human Rights Watch has condemned Iran’s controversial new law that increases prison terms and fines for women and girls who breach the country's strict dress code in the wake of the mass Women, Life, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female student at a university in Tehran stripped to her underwear in a defiant act of protest on Saturday A female student at a ...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday delivered a staunch defence of the hijab as more women flout the Islamic republic's strict dress code, prompting criticism from ...

BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Before she begins her Wednesday morning, Iranian activist Masih Alinejad spends hours sifting through scores of videos and photos sent to her of women in Iran ...