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Members of Iran's women's soccer team exit Turkey's Igdir airport, on March 18, 2026. (Ali IHSAN OZTURK / AFP)
March 20, 2026, 5:52 am
Most of Iranian women’s soccer team arrives home to fanfare after asylum battle
Just two members of the team remain in Australia after seven initially filed asylum claims, which were later withdrawn amid accusations that Iran had pressured their families
By AFP
Members of Iran's women's soccer team stand at Turkey's Igdir airport, waiting to reach Dogubeyazit, in Igdir on March 18, 2026 (Ali IHSAN OZTURK / AFP)
March 18, 2026, 8:08 pm
With two exceptions, Iran women’s soccer team returns home after players sought asylum
Athletes greeted by officials at border after silence during national anthem prompted calls for punishment by regime-linked media; 2 players stay in Australia on humanitarian visas
By AP
Iran's Zahra Sarbali, top, and Philippines' Malea Cesar battle for the ball during the Women's Asian Cup soccer match between Iran and the Philippines in Robina, Australia, March 8, 2026. (Dave Hunt/AAP Image via AP)
March 9, 2026, 6:35 pm
Trump calls on Australia to give asylum to Iranian women’s soccer team members
US president says Washington will take in athletes if Canberra doesn’t, amid fears they could be persecuted after declining to sing national anthem before one of their games
By Reuters
Iran players pose for a team photo ahead of the Women's Asian Cup soccer match between Iran and the Philippines in Robina, Australia, on March 8, 2026. (Dave Hunt/AAP Image via AP)
March 8, 2026, 6:18 pm
Iranian soccer team exits Women’s Asian Cup and faces tricky prospect of return home
Petition urging Australia to protect women athletes from persecution by Islamic Republic gets 50,000 signatures; team was silent during national anthem before opening match Monday
By AP
Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
December 12, 2025, 11:54 pm
Iran frees former child bride sentenced to death over husband’s killing
Goli Kouhkan was forced into marriage with cousin at 12, gave birth at 13 and was abused for years; she’s spared execution after global pressure, financial settlement with man’s family
By AFP
A combo image from screenshots of social media videos showing hundreds of unveiled women running at the Kish island marathon in Iran, December 5, 2025. (X)
December 6, 2025, 12:00 pm
Iran files charges against marathon organizers after women runners flout hijab law
Hundreds of women seen without veil running at Kish island’s race as Tehran tries to crack down on increasingly ignored modesty laws; prosecutor: event ‘violated public decency’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iranian women walk in front of a billboard depicting slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (C) and his successor Hashem Safieddine (R) as well as the late Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, in Tehran on September 28, 2025.(Atta Kenare/AFP)
December 3, 2025, 4:42 pm
Iran’s Khamenei defends hijab as more women flout strict dress code
Supreme leader tells women that those who wear the headscarf ‘can progress more than others,’ after conservatives accuse judiciary of becoming lax on modesty laws
By AFP
Merat Behnam drives her motorbike in downtown Tehran, Iran, November 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 12, 2025, 11:26 am
Women riding motorbikes signal societal changes in Iran
Tehran resident Merat Behnam recounts anxiety of first time riding her scooter to work, surprise at good reactions she received
By MEHDI FATTAHI
A worker hangs a banner showing portraits of the late Iranian armed forces commanders, Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, top, Gen. Gholamali Rashid, center, and Gen. Hossein Salami who were killed in Israeli strikes in June at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 25, 2025, 8:21 pm
Female prisoner dies in Iranian jail; rights groups blame authorities’ neglect
Somayeh Rashidi, 42, dies six months after being jailed for writing anti-regime slogans; Iran says death due to earlier illness but NGOs say coma caused by denial of medical care
By AFP and ToI Staff
A storefront in a mall in Tehran filmed by an Iranian dissident. (Channel 12 screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 9, 2025, 12:27 pm
Iranians film luxurious lifestyle of those connected to regime for Israeli news outlet
Experts say Iranians risked execution by sending footage to Channel 12; ‘We love Israel… Iranian women fell in love with Israeli soldiers,’ Baha’i woman says in report
By ToI Staff
Mehdi Yarrahi in the music video for his song "Roosarito." (Youtube screenshot used in accordance with Article 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 6, 2025, 7:52 am
Iranian singer whipped 74 times for song calling for removal of women’s headscarves
Mehdi Yarrahi, defiant after punishment, says he is willing to ‘pay for price of freedom’; flogging draws uproar from political dissidents in Iran
By Stuart Williams
Iranians walk past a statue of a father and daughter in Tehran, on January 7, 2025 (Atta Kenare / AFP)
January 10, 2025, 11:16 am
Iran’s population aging fast, bucking government efforts
Authorities fear long-term economic effects of rising life expectancy and declining birth rates
By MENNA ZAKI and Payam DOOST MOHAMADI
An Iranian student protests against harassment by stripping to her underwear outside her university in Tehran, November 2, 2024. (Video screenshot)
November 4, 2024, 4:03 am
Iranian authorities arrest female student who stripped to protest harassment
Woman walked outside campus in her underwear, reportedly after being pestered by members of the Basij paramilitary force for her clothing
By AFP
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian gestures as he speaks to reporters during his press conference in Tehran on September 16, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
September 16, 2024, 9:03 pm
Iran’s new president vows to ensure morality police don’t ‘bother’ women
Speaking on second anniversary of death of Mahsa Amini, Masoud Pezeshkian says controversial force ‘not supposed to confront’ women; also says Tehran does not want fight with US
By AFP and ToI Staff
US demonstrators carry a large photo of Mahsa Amini during a protest against the Iranian regime, in Los Angeles, on October 22, 2022, following the death of Amini in the custody of the Islamic Republic's notorious "morality police." (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
September 15, 2024, 8:34 pm
34 female prisoners hunger strike in Iran for anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death
Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi’s foundation says strike is ‘in solidarity with the protesting people of Iran, against the government’s oppressive policies’
By AFP
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