U.S. President Donald Trump initially threatened a response to Iran’s bloody crackdown on widespread protests in the country last month, and the United States has since positioned military forces near ...

Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...

Tara Kangarlou, an Iranian-American global affairs journalist, shares a message of strength and hope ...

Behind Iran’s ancient sites and legendary hospitality, women are holding together a tourism industry shaped by sanctions and geopolitics. In this World Tourism Network feature, Shahrzad Moayeri shares ...

In November 2025, Omid Sarlak, a young man living in western Iran, posted a video on social media showing himself setting fire to a photograph of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Just hours after the ...

IRAN, a land with a civilization stretching back more than five thousand years, has always been one of the most significant cultural and civilizational centers in West Asia and the world. With ancient ...

Instructor Maryam Ghelich (L) gives women students a lesson in riding motorbikes at a training centre in northern Tehran — ATTA KENARE When she first started learning to ride a motorbike, Iranian ...

“Shirin Neshat,” the latest show at the Miami Art Museum, with films and photographs of the exile Iranian artist, is a unique event, helping us to grasp the complexity of women’s struggle for social ...

A University of Surrey study shows how Iranian women lead tourism despite political isolation, sanctions, and social restrictions. As international arrivals remain limited, women sustain hospitality, ...

An ongoing internet blackout and intensifying crackdowns are obstructing documentation of abuses in Iran, as women human rights defenders face arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment, and prolonged detention.