Amid Iran's deadly crackdown, three women share their stories of resistance, fear and an unyielding hope for freedom.

In Iran's 2022 protests, security forces deliberately targeted women's faces, especially their eyes, intending to blind them. This brutal tactic was used to silence and intimidate women leading the ...

Voices from Iran: women defy fear in the face of brutal crackdown ...

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.

Elahe Gol Pari lived through the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran as a child. Now, with her family still in Tehran, the ...

Marion Cotillard, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Juliette Binoche were among the signatures calling out "the organized crimes ...

Cinema has been a part of Iran for nearly its entire history. Though the work of Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi is no longer extant ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ride her yellow scooter through the gridlocked streets of Iran 's capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn't her main ...

French actresses Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard and Camille Cottin as well as Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos have joined ...

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...

Our perception of Iran was largely through films before protests against the régime took to the streets.