International Women’s Day 2025: Chowra Makaremi reflects on Iranian women’s resistance

Women will overthrow Iran's Islamic republic: Nobel laureate

Women will overthrow the Islamic system established in Iran after the 1979 revolution even if the authorities survive a military conflict, Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said in a message Saturday marking international women's day.Mohammadi, 52, who won the 2023 Nobel prize in recognition of her years-long fight for human rights in Iran, is currently on temporary release from a prison term for health reasons. Her lawyers fear she coul…

Since 2022, Iranian Forough Alaei has photographed women in contexts from which they are generally excluded in his country: extreme or mechanical sports, but also music, whose practice is strictly prohibited for them in public space.

International Women’s Day 2025: Chowra Makaremi reflects on Iranian women’s resistance

International Women's Day is being celebrated today in countries across the world. In Iran, marking the date can be complicated, with outright expressions of feminism targeted by authorities, notably since the start of the Woman Life Freedom protests sparked off by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Maahsa Amini in September 2022. Chowra Makaremi, anthropologist and a researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris, j…

In his book published on February 5 at Le Rocher, the Franco-Afghan journalist plunges readers into the daily lives of those who risk their lives to defend freedom in Iran.

On Int'l Women's Day: In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Ruhollah Khomeini was still in Neauphle-le-Château, in various declarations and interviews, he had promised that women would have the freedom to choose their attire.  That they would have the same rights as men.  “In an interview with a left-leaning Lebanese newspaper, he said that Islam believes in the total equality of men and women; that women are free to choose their own destiny,…

How a women-led resistance can end Iran’s nuclear threat

At the start of this year, the International Atomic Energy Agency warned that the Islamic Republic of Iran was “pressing the gas pedal” on its nuclear activities. In response to its latest censure by the IAEA’s board of governors, the Iranian regime announced plans to expand its nuclear facilities in ways that would further accelerate the pace of its uranium enrichment. This came after more than four years of those facilities enriching the mater…