The Echo of Iran ® [By: Farjam Behnam]
Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author and women’s rights campaigner. She hosts “Tablet,” a talk show on Voice of America’s Persian service. Five years ago, I took part in the largest single-day protest in U.S. history: the 2017 Women’s
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Demonstrations have been spreading throughout major Iranian cities for the last 5 days. The presence of Iranian women and taking leadership by them has taken men by surprise. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1557949151191225/) Internet connection has been slowed down or disconnected in cities more
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With the World Cup in Russia? less than 100 days away now, excitement is escalating for obsessive fans around the world. Even in places that have long excluded women from watching sports events in person, the ground is shifting;
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The office of Iran’s president on Sunday charged into the middle of one of the most contentious debates over the character of the Islamic Republic, suddenly releasing a three-year-old report showing that nearly half of Iranians wanted an end to the requirement that
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An Iranian protester removed her head scarf and waved it in public like a flag. She hasn’t been seen since One day late last month, a woman wearing black trousers and gray sneakers climbed atop a telephone utility box in
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