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The tagline of Iran’s recent prowomen’s movement is translated from a Kurdish slogan which neatly captures the ideology of the Kurdish feminist revolution. Here a mural displays the Kurdish original. HERZI PINKI/CREATIVE COMMONS

Rahila Gupta examines the precursor to Iran’s ‘first feminist revolution in the world’: a Kurdish feminist...

Smuggling is necessary but dangerous work for these Kurdish boys. Many are killed every year by Iranian border patrols. Rahman Hassani/Alamy

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Iran’s Kurds are suffering in silence. But for how much longer?

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Turkish airstrikes in Northern Iraq are nothing new, but the recent co-ordinated air and ground assault is unprecedented,...

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Veronique Mistiaen speaks to an Iranian human rights activist currently in hiding.

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Tehran Taboo written and directed by Ali Soozandeh;
The Heiresses (Las Herederas) written and...

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US foreign policy continues to subjugate the nation’s youth, Daniel Khalili-Tari writes.

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On 27 December 2017, 31-year-old Vida Movahed removed her headscarf, tied it to a stick and stood atop a telecoms box on...

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Soudeh Alikhani writes on the 10th anniversary of the women’s rights activist Zeinab Jalalian’s arrest – on...

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This month's guest cartoonist is Payam Boromand from Iran.

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Human Rights Watch has thrown its weight behind a challenge to Iran’s ban on women watching volleyball matches. Kelsi...

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Since June 2015 WikiLeaks has been releasing details of leaked cables and other documents from within the Saudi Foreign...

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Every journalist who's visited the PKK's mountain stronghold in recent years knows Zagros Hiwa, reports Karlos...

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Exiled Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad is using social media to challenge Iran’s compulsory hijab law. Lucinda Homa...

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Mojtaba Alef on Iran’s continuing internet censorship. 

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What is Iran doing – trying to force women to have children? asks Vanessa Baird.

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There is much more to Iran than the Western world's image of it as a progenitor of terrorist outrages, says Mischa...

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