Women in Iran increasingly deciding not to wear headscarves in public

Women in Iran increasingly deciding not to wear headscarves in public

NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said women's issues are "one of the most sensitive issues and one of the issues that's really at the cultural and political heart of the regime".

How Iran’s government has weaponized sexual violence against women who dare to resist

In Iran’s 2022–2023 “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, women’s bodies quite literally became battlefields. The protest movement erupted after the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini, who was arrested by Iran’s morality police for improperly wearing a hijab. Her death became a powerful symbol of the government’s patriarchal control over women’s bodies, and ignited protests that exposed the regime’s use of sexual violence as a weapon …

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Iran reports a 0.7% increase in its headline inflation rate in April.

Iran ramps up state executions amid nuclear talks with US

Executions across Iran have ramped up under Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian by more than 20% in less than a year since he took office.

The authorities are also turning a blind eye to it, but it is unclear whether this is not just a temporary relief.

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