Iran’s intelligence service has summoned dozens of people and instructed them not to wear traditional Kurdish clothing during Newroz celebrations later this month, a watchdog said on Friday.

The 2022 protests hark to March 8, 1979, when Iranian women cowed clerics, writes Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi.

Iran’s dress code is so strict that a mental health clinic in the capital Tehran was opened to ‘treat’ women who refuse to wear the hijab. Yarrahi was jailed for more than a year and was ...

Iranian authorities detained a young woman who was seen walking around a university in Tehran in her underwear, and while ...