Iranian women

Iran reports three femicide cases in one week amid domestic violence study

Three reported femicides in Iran in one week have renewed attention on domestic violence, with a new Iranian study finding that economic hardship can increase violence against women.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
An Iranian woman walks past a piece of street art in Tehran on June 3, 2026.
An Iranian woman walks on a street amid the implementation of the new hijab surveillance in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2023

Women seemingly forced to sell hair to survive in Iran, following Armenian smuggling attempt

Many Iranian activists have speculated that the hair came from some of the protesters killed during the January demonstrations, but hair smuggling was already a problem in Iran.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Kosar Eftekhari, an Iranian student blinded by the Iranian police in Iran, participates in a rally against a death sentence given to Toomaj Salehi, a popular Iranian rapper after he was accused of singing pro-women led protests in Berlin, Germany on Sunday, April 28, 2024.

Islamic regime’s extremism being imported to Europe, Kosar Eftekhari warns ‘Post’

Kosar Eftekhari, who was shot in the eye by the Islamic regime for participating in the Women, Life, Freedom protests, was attacked in Germany last week by supporters of Khamenei.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A picture of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on the wall of the Grand Hotel in central Oslo before the Nobel banquet, in connection with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, in Oslo, Norway December 10, 2023.

Iran keeps Nobel laureate from urgent heart care as experts warn her life is in danger

"She is suffering from terrible headaches, nausea, and chest pain. That is what we are very worried about, her heart," her brother Hamidreza Mohammadi said in an interview.

|ByREUTERS

'Tehran' star Liraz Charhi sings for women's freedom in Iran, Israel

Already, Liraz Charhi says, public shows have been canceled by the new Israeli government, reluctant to have a woman’s voice heard by men. 

JANUARY 28, 2023ByPAMELA PELED
Liraz Charhi, star of ‘Tehran’

Jerusalem mural shows solidarity with Iranian protesters

The Woman Life Freedom mural of Jerusalem is meant to be a show of solidarity with the people protesting in Iran.

JANUARY 27, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
A view of the mural in Jerusalem’s Talpiot industrial area

Iran Revolution is not just a local problem but a global one - opinion

In the 120 days since the protests on 2022, Iran has ruthlessly murdered at least 525 protesters and detained and tortured countless more.

JANUARY 17, 2023ByZINA RAKHAMILOVA
THE BIGGEST disappointment was watching how Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was welcomed at the United Nations and the General Assembly, says the writer

Iran hangs two men for alleged crimes committed during protests - judiciary

Iranian authorities are seeking the death penalty for at least 26 others in what it called "sham trials designed to intimidate protesters in the popular uprising that has rocked the country."

JANUARY 7, 2023ByREUTERS
Iranian women chant during a protest condemning the Shiraz attack and unrest in Tehran, Iran October 28, 2022

15 Iranian women start hunger strike against regime’s prison conditions

Laila Mirzo: 'It is impressive that women are causing the mullahs to stagger.'

JANUARY 6, 2023ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
A woman walks after the morality police shut down in a street in Tehran, Iran December 6, 2022.

Iranians mourn murdered protesters, chant 'death to Khamenei!'

At least 508 protesters have been killed by Iranian forces since nationwide protests began in September, including 69 children.

DECEMBER 29, 2022ByTZVI JOFFRE
A man gestures during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 19, 2022.

Iran likely to be ousted from UN women's body

Iran, 17 other states and the Palestinians argued that ousting Iran would " create an unwelcome precedent."

DECEMBER 14, 2022ByREUTERS
A woman walks after the morality police shut down in a street in Tehran, Iran December 6, 2022.

Iranian student protestors poisoned ahead of mass protests, student union claims

Iranian authorities blame the food poisoning outbreak on water-borne bacteria. Iran’s student union is not buying the explanation. 

DECEMBER 7, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Protesters in Iran remove their head coverings in defiance of the Islamic Republic's laws as protests continue to grow despite regime crackdown, November 2022.

Iranian regime likely to survive the protests, Israeli official predicts

Iran has been engulfed in widespread protests against the regime since mid-September after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was killed in police custody.

DECEMBER 5, 2022ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attend an IRGC ground forces military drill in the Aras area, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, October 17, 2022.

IRGC, Basij militia personal information leaked online by protesters - exclusive

Iranian dissidents are using the Darknet, a shadow realm within the internet, to fight back against the Ayatollah’s foot soldiers.

DECEMBER 4, 2022ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Basij militia forces attend a meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran November 26, 2022.