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Nose job boom in Iran where procedure can boost social status
AFP, Published on 08/04/2025
» TEHRAN - All of the women in Iranian model Azadeh's family have had nose surgeries, each feeling the pressure to conform with Western beauty standards in a country where female bodies are heavily policed.
Iran says student who stripped in public is ‘troubled’
Published on 06/11/2024
» A female student who stripped to her underwear at an Iranian university does not represent a security issue but is a “troubled individual” who is receiving treatment, a government spokesperson has said.
Cues from Iran on who to vote for
News, Marc Champion, Published on 03/07/2024
» The opposition just won a first round of elections, forcing a runoff in which everything depends on where third-party votes go. No, not in France -- in Iran. You could be forgiven for missing it amid all the excitement over the advance of the French hard right, President Joe Biden's car crash debate in the US and the coming immolation of the UK's Conservative Party. Yet Iran's experience is worth attention, not least as a reminder of what to vote for and why. Iran, to recap, is having a snap contest to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May helicopter crash. Raisi was also being groomed to succeed the 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the unelected post that -- as the title suggests -- matters most in the Islamic Republic.
Iran presidential election will go to run-off
Published on 29/06/2024
» Iran will hold a run-off presidential election on July 5 as no candidate secured the required 50% of votes on Friday, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
UN condemns Iran's treatment of girls, women
Oped, Published on 15/03/2024
» The Iranian regime has been firmly condemned by a UN fact-finding mission investigating the unprovoked killing of Mahsa Amini two years ago, in an incident that set off nationwide protests. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old student, according to a UN fact-finding mission, died in police custody after violating the Islamic Republic's strict "morality rules" requiring women to wear the headscarf.
Iran adds prison time for Nobel winner
New York Times, Published on 16/01/2024
» The Iranian regime sentenced Narges Mohammadi, the jailed human rights activist who received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, to 15 more months in prison, her family said Monday.
Iran accuses jailed Swedish EU diplomat of conspiring with Israel
AFP, Published on 10/12/2023
» TEHRAN - Iranian authorities have accused a Swedish EU diplomat, held in a Tehran prison for more than 600 days, of conspiring with Iran's arch-enemy Israel, the judiciary said Sunday.
Iran's jailed Narges Mohammadi to receive Nobel Peace Prize in absentia
AFP, Published on 10/12/2023
» OSLO - The Nobel Peace Prize will be handed out in Oslo on Sunday but with the notable absence of winner Narges Mohammadi, currently in prison, who will be represented by her children.
Children of jailed Nobel winner prepare to accept her prize
Published on 09/12/2023
» OSLO - The teenage children of jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi fear they will never meet their mother again, but said they were proud of her struggle for women’s rights as they prepared to accept the award on her behalf on Sunday.
Jailed Iranian Nobel winner begins hunger strike: family
AFP, Published on 06/11/2023
» PARIS - Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has begun a hunger strike in her Iranian prison in protest at limits on medical care for her and other inmates, as well as the obligation for women to wear the hijab in the Islamic republic, her family said on Monday.