Mahsa Amini, Iran
Two years after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, Iranians engage in a 'quiet revolution'
While the world is focused on other parts of the Middle East, the Iranian people are fighting their own battles against a harsh government crackdown on women who unveil, and a ramp up in arrests and use of the death penalty.
Two years after the death of Mahsa Amini, a ‘quiet revolution’ is still under way in Iran
The scale of the protest movement that erupted after the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and the brutal repression of those demonstrations have left an indelible mark on Iranian society. More and more
U.S. marks grim two-year anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death with Iran sanctions
The United States unleashed sanctions Wednesday targeting those responsible for oppressing protesters after they took to the streets in anger over the death of Mahsa Amini, who was killed in police cu
Two years after Mahsa Amini death, Western allies sanction a dozen Iranian officials
The U.S., Canada and Australia hit a group of Iranian officials with sanctions Wednesday for their participation in suppressing protests and detaining people in relation to the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who died in the custody of Iran's morality police two years ago for improperly wearing a mandatory headscarf.
2 Years After Mahsa Amini’s Death, Women Defy Iran’s Hijab Law Despite Crackdown
As Iran marks the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death, it has become increasingly common to see women in Iranian cities walking without the mandatory hijab, a symbol of ongoing defiance and the protests sparked by her death.
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Iran revolution: 'I wore a hijab and head-banged to Nirvana'
I was born in the summer of 1979 in California, a few months after Iran's Islamic Revolution; my mother was in her early 20s and my grandmother was 50. Millions of Iranian women took part in the ...
The Salt Lake Tribune7d
Letter: I lived through the Iranian Revolution and know what it means to move backward. We must not let that happen in America.
I witnessed firsthand the loss of freedom after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and understand what it means to move backward. The rise of an Iranian dictatorship took away rights, suppressed ...
NHK1y
Changes in Iran 40 years after the revolution
On February 11th, Iran marked the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and tens of thousands of citizens attended a government-sponsored ceremony. By overthrowing the US-backed monarchy ...
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Iranian women - before and after the Islamic Revolution
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the 1930s ...
Forbes1y
A Story Of Power, Oppression And Resistance: How Iranian Women Are Leading A Revolution
So, what's happening in Iran, actually first it was uprising, but now even we can call it a women's revolution. What I mean by women's revolution...is what ideologically has been done to women ...
Cambridge University Press5mon
Iran's Political Economy since the Revolution
Langenegger, Tobias W. and Hipel, Keith W. 2019. The Strategy of Escalation and Negotiation: The Iran Nuclear Dispute. Journal of Systems Science and Systems ...
Al-Monitor3y
Episode #087: Over the Hill: The Iranian Revolution at 40 (feat. Mohammad Shabani)
In conjunction with Al-Monitor’s "Revolution at 40" series, Phil and Cooper break down the events that led to the rise of the Islamic Republic, and speak with Iran Pulse ...
Asia Society11y
Video: 57 Images of Amazing Pre-Revolution Iranian Art in 28 Seconds
On September 6, Asia Society Museum unveils a landmark exhibition, Iran Modern, featuring artwork from painters, photographers, designers, and sculptors created during the three decades leading up ...
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44th anniversary of Islamic Revolution Iran held in Rawalpindi
On the occasion of 44th anniversary of the Inqilab-e-Islami Iran, a ceremony titled "Islamic Revolution and the Beginning of Modern Islamic Civilization" was held in Khana Farhang Islami Iran, ...
Global Voices Online28d
From revolution to exile: The journey of Iranian activist Nasrin Bassiri
Nasrin holds a PhD in political science from the University of Graz in Austria, and lived in Berlin, Germany, before the Iranian Revolution, where she taught at the Berlin School of Economics. “I ...
Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon Is Injured in Pager Attack, State Media Reports
The ambassador, Mojtaba Amini, lost an eye, according to two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps who were briefed on ...