It has been nearly 45 years that Iranian women and girls have been continuously fighting against the mandatory hijab law in the Islamic Republic. The government has made every effort to force the black chador on all Iranian women, but has faced defeat. The result of 45 years of “Guidance Patrol” and “Enjoining Good” has […]...

Nowruz 1403 has arrived and people are so overwhelmed with the struggles of daily life that they no longer have much enthusiasm for celebration and joy. Inflation has put a heavy burden on them and taken away their ability to breathe. Unemployment is rampant. If you just spend a few minutes scrolling through Instagram, you […]...

International tourism revenues reached $1.4 trillion in 2023 (1), but due to the inefficiency of the Islamic Republic, Iran did not have a significant share in this market. Although Iranian tourism officials claim to have earned $6 billion from the industry, this figure is not comparable to the income of neighboring countries such as Turkey. […]...

In recent years, there has been a discussion about the use of surveillance cameras in public spaces in cities, and the Islamic Republic has tried to convince people that these cameras are for identifying and arresting criminals and creating security. In this regard, I spoke with several citizens who live in different cities in Iran […]...

The Islamic Republic is one of the rarest governments that violates its own laws or throws them into the archives. The Law on Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is one of these laws that was passed after a decade of ups and downs with 34 articles and 29 clauses in the month […]...

The Eastern newspaper reported, citing Sareng Younesi, the head of the specialized laboratory for fetal health, that with the implementation of the population growth law and the deprivation of midwives’ right to screen, 12 children with Down syndrome were born last year. In the news, it has been reported that Fatemeh Hashemi, the head of […]...

“The person who stabbed my dear mother in the chest and killed her so brutally, has said that we always carried out such missions by invoking “Ya Zahra” and this time they did the same. It is written that they were performing ablution. They turned my father’s body (or at the same time they were […]...

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 […]...

» “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 […]...

Let’s not remain silent in the face of soldiers’ suicide. More than two years have passed since the suicide of “Saman Dashti”, a 20-year-old young man who pulled the trigger on the last day of his military service and ended his life, but his family and friends are still in shock about what happened. During […]...