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Pedestrian walk past a billboard depicting a Persian legendary hero and flying figure hitting US aircraft carriers alongside the message in English and Farsi: “From the Persian Gulf a new power rises” “The army of Satan will be drowned in the Persian Gulf, “ at Islamic Revolution square in downtown Tehran, Iran, September 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 17, 2026, 6:44 am
Iran hesitant to enforce mandatory headscarf law as war and economic pressures mount
Activist says regime is ‘afraid of protests,’ which Khamenei’s father-in-law seems to acknowledge: ‘We can’t enter into that front as we ought to because of wartime conditions’
By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY
Women walk along Enghelab Square in central Tehran on September 10, 2023. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
September 20, 2023, 3:19 pm
Iran MPs advance bill to toughen penalties for women who violate Islamic dress code
Along with prison time for violators, legislation calls for punishment for ‘mocking the hijab,’ following protests sparked by death of woman accused of breaching rules
By AFP
Mitra Hejazipour poses with a chess board in an undated photo (Courtesy/ Mohsen BEZENJANI)
September 16, 2023, 10:07 pm
Chess star who fled Iran after shedding headscarf hails ‘courage’ of protesters
Mitra Hejazipour, who is now living in France after removing head covering at 2019 tournament, wants to use her platform to ‘show Iranian women that they are not alone’
By Valentin GUELET
Elke Reva Sudin adjusts a tichel, or headcovering, on a model before a photo shoot highlighting her newly launched 'Crown Collection.' (Saul Sudin)
September 4, 2023, 1:52 am
An artist is celebrating her Judaism with a line of luxurious headscarves for women
Released just ahead of NY Fashion Week, Elke Reva Sudin’s new ‘Crown Collection’ weaves fashion, tradition and Jewish mysticism, while each individual design holds its own message
By Cathryn J. Prince
Iranian singer Mehdi Yarrahi in a video clip released in May 2023. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 28, 2023, 9:07 pm
Iran arrests singer for ‘illegal’ song encouraging headscarf removal
Judiciary says Mehdi Yarrahi’s new video ‘defies the morals and customs of the Islamic society’; he has consistently backed women’s rights protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death
By AFP
Iranians drive past a huge billboard showing a montage of pictures titled 'the women of my land, Iran' featuring Iranian women who are all observing the hijab, on Valiasr Square in Tehran, on October 13, 2022. (AFP)
July 26, 2023, 4:19 pm
Iran is ‘doubling down’ on hijab crackdown, says Amnesty International
Almost a year after Mahsa Amini protests rattled nation, watchdog says Tehran continuing its ‘oppressive methods of policing and punishing women’ under its veiling laws
By AFP
Illustrative: Iranian women make their way along a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, April 26, 2016. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
July 24, 2023, 12:05 pm
Iran shutters e-commerce giant over photos of female employees without headscarves
In new crackdown, authorities shut down one office of Digikala online retailer, nearly a year after the morality police largely melted away in the face of widespread protests
By AP
Afsaneh Bayegan (Youtube screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
July 19, 2023, 7:57 pm
Iran imprisons actress for flouting mandatory hijab law
Afsaneh Bayegan given 2-year sentence after appearing at movie ceremony without a head covering; is also ordered to visit psychological center for her ‘anti-family personality’
By AFP
A young Iranian woman crosses a street without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf in Tehran, Iran, November 14, 2022. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
May 8, 2023, 4:31 pm
Iran charges 2 more actresses for appearing without a veil
Baran Kosari and Shaghayegh Dehghan face prison terms for violating strict dress code amid ongoing wave of defiance since Mahsa Amini’s death in custody last September
By AFP
A screenshot of video released in early March 2023, showing unveiled Iranian women dancing to the song 'Calm Down' by Nigerian singer Rema. (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 14, 2023, 11:27 pm
Concern grows for Iranian women dancing unveiled in viral ‘Calm Down’ video
Activists say 5 detained and forced to apologize for dance clip set to song by Nigerian singer Rema, which began circulating online around International Women’s Day
By AFP
A screenshot from a video shared on social media on February 17, 2023, shows an Iranian woman who threw her headscarf to the ground in a sign of protest, during an engineering in Tehran, Iran. (Twitter video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 18, 2023, 8:03 pm
Iran indicts woman for throwing headscarf to ground in protest during event
Iranian prosecutors accuse woman of ‘disrespecting’ head covering at public meeting in Tehran, amid ongoing unrest
By AFP
In this file photo taken on July 23, 2007, an Iranian policewoman looks on from the back of a police vehicle before the start of a crackdown to enforce Islamic dress code in the capital Tehran. (Behrouz MEHRI/AFP)
December 5, 2022, 3:30 pm
‘Too little too late’: Iranian activists brush off claims morality police abolished
Protest supporters call supposed disbandment of force a ‘PR move,’ say it doesn’t change oppressive dress code for women but simply marks switch in enforcement of law
By Stuart Williams
A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran shows a woman walking without a head scarf in the heart of the Iranian capital Tehran, on October 11, 2022. (AFP)
October 13, 2022, 5:15 pm
Iran orders judges to hit main instigators of riots with tough sentences
Judiciary chief says ‘undue sympathy’ and weak punishments are an injustice to the people, allows some leniency for ‘less guilty elements’
By AFP
Illustrative: Nasibe Samsaei, an Iranian woman living in Turkey, cuts her ponytail off during a protest outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul on September 21, 2022, following the death of an Iranian woman after her arrest by the country's morality police in Tehran. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)
September 22, 2022, 5:18 pm
With cross-class, ethnic, gender support, Iran protests pose new test for regime
Unrest unifies diverse groups and comes at particularly sensitive time for the ayatollahs, with economy still bogged down by international sanctions over nuclear program
By Stuart Williams
Illustrative: Headcovering for Orthodox Jewish women for sale at a shop in the Jewish quarter in Antwerp, Belgium, on December 9, 2014 (Johanna Geron/FLASH90)
June 1, 2022, 1:11 pm
Prominent Hasidic rebbe bans glitzy head coverings for women
Spokesman Rabbi Yisrael Brecher of the Vizhnitz dynasty says ‘some headscarves don’t reflect any religious piety’
By ToI Staff
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