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President of Iraq Fuad Masum has praised Iran as "the first country to provide weapons to Iraq to fight against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists". [5] Iran's Quds Force is a "key player" in the military intervention against ISIL [6] and its "mastermind" commander Major General Qasem Soleimani maintained a frequent presence in Iraq while his pictures ...
Beginning in 2012, dozens of girls and women traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), becoming brides of Islamic State fighters. While some traveled willingly, including three British schoolgirls known as the Bethnal Green trio, [1] [2] others were brought to Iraq and Syria as minors by their parents or family or forcefully.
The images hold a unique historical value and illustrate the lives of people from different social classes, including members of the royal court. Although few women have been captured in the photos, it clearly documents the existing social hierarchy. Pesce's photos were shown at the World Harris Exhibition in 1867 and received an honorary award ...
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
According to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, they were among an estimated 550 women and girls from Western countries who had travelled to join IS [2] —part of what some [3] have called "a jihadi, girl-power subculture", [4] the so-called Brides of ISIL.
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 ...
Protected by young men, a group of young women protest having to wear the veil at a march in Tehran on March 10, 1979, during the Islamic Revolution. (Bettmann Archive via Getty Images) (Bettmann ...
The society is also known as the Women's Association of the Islamic Republic [4] and the Society of the Women of the Islamic Republic of Iran. [3] The secretary general of the society has been Zahra Mostafavi, a daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. [1] Nida, is the official quarterly organ of the society. [2]