“They have gunned down our closest friends. How many have been killed? Two or three thousand? Maybe more – we don’t know. “All we know is that we will overthrow them and bring back our Shah. One eye ...

"For me, hell was not the moment Israel attacked; hell was the moment they wouldn't open the door [of the cell] for us," Motahareh Goonei recalls in an exclusive interview with the BBC. A political ...

Three days after Iran’s morality police detained 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini on September 13, 2022, for failure to cover her hair properly, her family retrieved her corpse from Tehran’s Kasra ...

This week marks the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody — an event that ignited one of the most powerful protest movements in Iran since 1979. “ Woman, Life, Freedom” became not ...

Shadi Rouhshahbaz was a Women Peacemaker Fellow at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, the University of San Diego (2023-2024). She received funding from this fellowship to conduct research on ...