The prominent role of media in exposing human rights violations / Hermoz Sharifian

From the beginning of the 19th century, when mass media, newspapers, and journalism emerged, all social fields from politics and culture to art and sports were influenced by this amazing phenomenon and found a new path towards progress and, in some cases, reached glory. Politics may have become entangled with journalism more than any other […]...

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Why is cultural generalization important? / Mehrdad Naghibi

More than ever, censorship and inspection policies by authoritarian governments have taken complex forms, to the point that in societies under the rule of tyranny and cultural suffocation, censorship and the policy of elimination have become a guillotine. In Iran, the issue of censorship, both in the Shah regime and in the Islamic Republic, has […]...

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Supervision of the national broadcasting network on home display: Positioning/ Farshad Ghani

In the last days of the month of Khordad this year, Fars News Agency reported that “the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution discussed policies and regulations for the comprehensive audiovisual field in its 30th session, chaired by Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi” and approved the single article “Determination of Requirements for Organizing the Comprehensive Audiovisual Field”. […]...

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“The bill of hijab and chastity in the view of the constitution and human rights / Alireza Goodarzi”

The legal and executive situation regarding the issue of hijab is very complicated. This complexity has become even more strange since the start of the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement last year. Text messages about uncovering hijab, confiscation of cars, the hijab and chastity bill, nighttime arrests, internet taxis, online businesses, yogurt containers, the sealing of […]...

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The Bill of Chastity and Veil: A Fortress as Large as a Country / Marzieh Mohabbie

Iranian women have been standing hand in hand for nearly a year now, against one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes ruling the world. After the tragic death of Mahsa Amini, they have filled their lives with the sweetness of a serious, courageous, and persistent struggle for freedom. They have taken off the forced […]...

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“The Veil and Chastity Bill: An Introduction to Gender Segregation in Universities” / Hermoz Sharifian

The topic of hijab is one of the main topics in the social sphere that, after the victory of the revolution in 1357, has become one of the issues, or better to say, problems between the people and the government. The issue of mandatory hijab for women has been a subject of debate among many […]...

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Civil Resistance and the Veil and Chastity Bill / Raha Sabt Sarvestani

The Hijab and Chastity Bill, which was recently prepared and published by the Judiciary and Legal Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, consists of five chapters and seventy articles that specify the duties of approximately twenty-four government agencies for the implementation and promotion of its provisions. However, in these seventy articles, there is no precise […]...

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Is the nightmare of the Islamic Revolution Committee and Guidance returning? / Keyumars Amiri

The bitter and terrifying memories of the “Committee of the Islamic Revolution,” which, like a wicked fate, had inflicted harm and humiliation on the lives, property, and dignity of the people of Iran for many years, have not been forgotten. Or the “Guidance Patrols” that left deep wounds on the lives of people. Now they […]...

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Government deadlock in the fight against mandatory hijab/ Beloved Tavakoli

It has been close to forty-five years that Iranian women, generation after generation, have passed on the torch of the fight against mandatory hijab in the Islamic Republic. The young girls of 1357 (1978) who came to the streets in protests against wearing headscarves, are now fighting alongside their granddaughters for the right to choose […]...

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The death of “Home Performance” is on the way; an interview with Shahram Alidi/ Delbar Tavakoli.

» “The Iranian cinema, which is a part of the rich identity and culture of Iran today, has been hunched under the sword of arbitrary censorship for years. It does not want and cannot bear another period of erosion, suffering from the spiritual and financial damages of illogical and boundless inspections of the radio and […]...

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“The sword of power over culture; who is the loser? A conversation with Albert Bghzian/Matin Mostafai”

According to the recent decision of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, which was approved in the afternoon session on Wednesday, 30 Khordad, under the leadership of Ebrahim Raisi, the responsibility of monitoring the areas of audio and video platforms and the “Home Display” network will now be under the responsibility of the Islamic […]...

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Home entertainment series, a way to forget / Ali Hosseini

1. In the movie Once Upon a Time in America, David Aaronson (Robert De Niro) returns to his old neighborhood after years and gives a short and thought-provoking answer to the question “What have you been doing all these years?” He says, “I used to go to bed early at night!” Nighttime sleep is a […]...

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