Women Banned From Cycling In Bike-Friendly...

When Khamenei issued his fatwa against women riding bikes in September 2016, he said that “women often attract the attention of male strangers and expose society to debauchery, and thus contravene women’s chastity, and it must be abandoned.”

Love In The Time Of Travel...

American Brian Swank and his Iranian fiance, Mehraneh, say they can’t wait to start a life together.Their courtship began when they met and fell in love four years ago, when Mehraneh was working on her PhD in landscape architecture at a campus of The State University of New York where Brian was studying, too

Iranian TV program Formula One broadcast the interview last week with a self-described abusive husband alongside his wife and two of their young daughters. In it, the man said that despite two decades of beatings and 27 attempts by his wife to divorce him, the family has managed to stay together

Hijabs & Harassment: How Iran Soured...

For more than a year now, the “Girls of Revolution Street” (and a few men) have conducted sporadic one-person protests against the hijab by removing their head scarves and waving them in crowded public spaces in the capital

Looking Back:A Young Woman and Her...

Several images will likely be iconic of this year’s demonstrations including a young woman – reported to be a student – covering her face as she runs from tear gas just outside the University of Tehran, her fist raised defiantly in the air

FIFA Urges Tough Line on Iran...

FIFA’s statutes prohibit gender discrimination, though its leaders typically avoid publicly criticizing Iran’s government