The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering their husbands to fend off rape or after being forced into marriage ...

GENEVA — The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering their husbands to fend off rape or after being forced into marriage, ...

The wife of an Iranian political activist who criticized the Islamic Republic’s ruling system says he has been arrested ...

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi spent years incarcerated for political reasons. She and other human rights activists say torture and sexual violence against women are ...

Never in history have the women of a nation suffered so profound a reversal of their rights and status as the women of Iran did in 1979. Islamists and Marxists joined together to overthrow a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian authorities have arrested a ... just after the couple visited the tomb complex of a famous Persian poet, Ferdowsi (who died in 1020 A.D.) in the ...

Jewish-American dancer, singer, and activist Montana Tucker shared a video on Wednesday wherein she and members of the Shiraz Dance Ensemble dance in honor of the Iranian women who have stood ...

Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who was detained in Italy at the request of the United States following a drone attack that killed three Americans, has been released. Abedini, 38, was ...

Women can make history — even in the authoritarian government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The historical novel authored by Marjan Kamali, “The Lion Women of Tehran,” explores friendship ...

The KCHG is the central entity in the command chain of Iran’s armed forces, making operational military decisions and coordinating between Iran’s conventional army (Artesh) and the IRGC.

TEHRAN: Iranian police arrested two young women after publication of a video in which they danced in a Tehran cemetery without adhering to the country’s strict dress code, television channels ...