While it puts on a moderate face when dealing with the West, Iran is still going strong stirring up controversy over women’s rights in the country – or, more accurately, the lack thereof. The most recent controversy involved not Iranian…
While it puts on a moderate face when dealing with the West, Iran is still going strong stirring up controversy over women’s rights in the country – or, more accurately, the lack thereof. The most recent controversy involved not Iranian…
The Islamic State terror group has been busy in Syria and Iraq in recent months. It hasn’t just been conquering villages, beheading people, persecuting minorities, executing journalists/aid workers/pilots alike and forcing conversion on entire communities. In line with its first…
In a country notorious for allowing sigheh, or temporary marriages seen as a cleric-sanctioned form of prostitution, forced marriage and its underlying causes hardly seem to be newsworthy. But what about coverage outside of Iran? A few years ago, the…
Throughout 2014, we told you about the Iranian attitude to the LGBT community, reporting that two men may have been hanged in the country’s south for “consensual sodomy.” We stated that this was emblematic of a wider issue, one with…
The media outcry over the brutal violence against political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison has died down in recent days, its echoes heard mostly in Iran-focused watchdogs who have brought readers the latest updates. Dissident blog Good Morning Iran, for…
Since the implementation of the Geneva deal we’ve reported a bit on the startling rise in executions under Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, even as Iran engages more closely with the West. It’s not just the executions which have been getting…