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The Roar Of Silence: How Iran's 'Lionesses' Took Asylum Leap In Australia
The Iranian women's football team is nicknamed 'Shirzanan', meaning lionesses in Persian. The events of the past week have shown why.
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Iran Formally Allows Women To Ride Motorcycles
Women in Iran can now formally obtain a licence to ride a motorcycle, local media reported Wednesday, ending years of legal ambiguity surrounding two-wheelers.
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Iran Arrests Two Women For Dancing In Cemetery: Report
Iranian police arrested two young women after publication of a video in which they danced in a Tehran cemetery without adhering to the country's strict dress code, local media reported Friday.
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"She Was Ill": Iran Woman Who Stripped In Public Released Without Charges
Iran's judiciary said Tuesday it has not issued an indictment against a student who stripped off to her underwear at a university in Tehran.
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Video: Woman Chops Hair On Grave Of Brother Killed In Anti-Hijab Protest
As anti-hijab protests in Iran intensify with over 41 dead and 700 arrested, a video of a man's funeral who allegedly died in the crackdown on the protests, has been widely shared where his sister is seen cutting off her hair over his grave.
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Thousands Of Iran Women Watch Football Match For First Time
Waving flags and snapping selfies, thousands of Iranian women on Thursday attended a football match freely for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial stadium restrictions.
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Iran Football Fan, Held For Entering Stadium, Sets Herself Ablaze, Dies
Iran is to probe the death of a woman football fan, state media said Tuesday, after she reportedly set herself ablaze in fear of being jailed, triggering calls for an end to a ban on women attending matches.
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Women In Iran Are Pulling Off Their Headscarves, Hoping For "Turning Point"
Iranian women have been raising a new challenge to their Islamic government, breaking one of its most fundamental rules by pulling off their headscarves in some of the busiest public squares and brandishing them in protest.
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Iran Arrests 29 Women As Headscarf Protests Intensify
Tehran police have arrested 29 women for appearing in public without a headscarf as protests against the dress code in force since the Islamic revolution of 1979 intensify, Iranian media reported Friday.
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Iran Police to Confiscate Cars of 'Poorly Veiled' Women
Women drivers in Iran's capital could have their cars impounded by police if they are caught driving with a poorly fixed veil or without their heads covered, a police chief said Wednesday.
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For Iran's Women, Makeup Speaks Volumes
Under the compulsory veil and despite hard times, Iranian women are unrestrained in showing off one feature on which they feel a need to spend money. Their faces.
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In Iran presidential polls, women see flicker of hope for rights
Iran's presidential election is offering a flicker of hope to activists hoping to revive women's rights after they deteriorated during the eight years of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency.
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Woman's execution in Iraq draws Amnesty's ire
Iranian authorities executed on Friday a 23-year-old woman convicted of a murder allegedly committed when she was still a teenager.
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The Roar Of Silence: How Iran's 'Lionesses' Took Asylum Leap In Australia
The Iranian women's football team is nicknamed 'Shirzanan', meaning lionesses in Persian. The events of the past week have shown why.
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Iran Formally Allows Women To Ride Motorcycles
Women in Iran can now formally obtain a licence to ride a motorcycle, local media reported Wednesday, ending years of legal ambiguity surrounding two-wheelers.
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Iran Arrests Two Women For Dancing In Cemetery: Report
Iranian police arrested two young women after publication of a video in which they danced in a Tehran cemetery without adhering to the country's strict dress code, local media reported Friday.
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"She Was Ill": Iran Woman Who Stripped In Public Released Without Charges
Iran's judiciary said Tuesday it has not issued an indictment against a student who stripped off to her underwear at a university in Tehran.
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Video: Woman Chops Hair On Grave Of Brother Killed In Anti-Hijab Protest
As anti-hijab protests in Iran intensify with over 41 dead and 700 arrested, a video of a man's funeral who allegedly died in the crackdown on the protests, has been widely shared where his sister is seen cutting off her hair over his grave.
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Thousands Of Iran Women Watch Football Match For First Time
Waving flags and snapping selfies, thousands of Iranian women on Thursday attended a football match freely for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial stadium restrictions.
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Iran Football Fan, Held For Entering Stadium, Sets Herself Ablaze, Dies
Iran is to probe the death of a woman football fan, state media said Tuesday, after she reportedly set herself ablaze in fear of being jailed, triggering calls for an end to a ban on women attending matches.
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Women In Iran Are Pulling Off Their Headscarves, Hoping For "Turning Point"
Iranian women have been raising a new challenge to their Islamic government, breaking one of its most fundamental rules by pulling off their headscarves in some of the busiest public squares and brandishing them in protest.
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Iran Arrests 29 Women As Headscarf Protests Intensify
Tehran police have arrested 29 women for appearing in public without a headscarf as protests against the dress code in force since the Islamic revolution of 1979 intensify, Iranian media reported Friday.
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Iran Police to Confiscate Cars of 'Poorly Veiled' Women
Women drivers in Iran's capital could have their cars impounded by police if they are caught driving with a poorly fixed veil or without their heads covered, a police chief said Wednesday.
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For Iran's Women, Makeup Speaks Volumes
Under the compulsory veil and despite hard times, Iranian women are unrestrained in showing off one feature on which they feel a need to spend money. Their faces.
-
In Iran presidential polls, women see flicker of hope for rights
Iran's presidential election is offering a flicker of hope to activists hoping to revive women's rights after they deteriorated during the eight years of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency.
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Woman's execution in Iraq draws Amnesty's ire
Iranian authorities executed on Friday a 23-year-old woman convicted of a murder allegedly committed when she was still a teenager.
