Take off your scarf, let your hair ... have been outraged over the hijab law and the cruel ways it is enforced. In December, Amnesty International said that Iranian authorities had imposed new ...

Mehdi Yarrahi’s sang ‘take off your scarf’ and open your hair ... opened to ‘treat’ women who refuse to wear the hijab. The Iranian state announced that the centre will be called ...

An 18-year-old Iranian chess grandmaster has been kicked off the national team after she showed up for a game not wearing a hijab. Dorsa Derakhshani was competing in a chess tournament in ...

The talks seek to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some of the crushing economic sanctions the U.S ...

Ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, women in Iran have been required to wear the hijab in public. However, an increasing number of Muslim women are kicking back against the ruling – by ...

Recently, Iranian actress Sadaf Taherian started sharing seemingly normal pics on Instagram, posting a series of photos of herself without a hijab. While this doesn't seem out of the ordinary in ...

The Iranian establishment has increased pressure on women by sending warning text messages to women in Tehran, Shiraz, Rasht and Isfahan, urging them to follow the mandatory Islamic hijab rules.

Her story was no doubt familiar to Rekabi when the Iranian took to the wall on Sunday. Rekabi, who has climbed with a hijab in the past, appeared for the bouldering competition wearing a modified ...

Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi, who is also living outside of the country, has said he will not shoot in Iran until the obligation to wear a hijab is lifted. The political persecution of ...

After landing, Rekabi gave a careful, emotionless interview to Iran's hard-line state television, saying that going without a hijab had been an "unintentional" act on her part. However ...

Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi, who is also living outside of the country, has said he will not shoot in Iran until the obligation to wear a hijab is lifted. The political persecution of ...