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Iran has launched a major new crackdown on women defying the country’s strict dress code, deploying large numbers of police to enforce laws requiring women to wear headscarves in public ...
A few weeks after it began, the scale and intensity of Iran’s uprising are tangibly diminishing an already weak regime in Tehran.. Women, who for more than four decades bore the brunt of the ...
Iran’s “repression of peaceful protests” and “institutional discrimination against women and girls” has led to human rights violations, some of which amount to “crimes against humanity ...
On November 13, 2018, Entekhab, Iran's official news agency, published a statement by the hiking board of the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi that requires Iranian women to have permission from their husbands or fathers if they want to go hiking. [85] Iran forbids women from traveling without the consent of her husband.
Despite the strict sex segregation in Iran introduced after the Iranian Revolution, a number of Iranian women served in the military and in paramilitaries during the War. Around 25 000 Iranian served as doctors and nurses, at least 500 fought as combatants, and at least 170 were taken prisoners of war by Iraq.
It was the first collection of short stories published by a woman in Iran. In 1969, she published Savushun (Mourners of Siyâvash), a novel that reflected the Iranian experience of modernity during the 20th century. It was the first novel published by a woman in Iran. Daneshvar was the first president of the Iranian Writers' Association.
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Protests led by women have erupted across Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, a Kurdish woman who was visiting Tehran on Sept. 13 when she was detained by Iran's "morality police," reportedly ...