In the winter of 1953, a few months after Mohammad Mossadeq, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran was removed from power by coup d'état, the Shah's security forces attacked University of Tehran, killing three students. Since then, December 6th of each year - commemorated by both religious and secular...

Iranian women have been expressing their opposition to discriminatory laws and calling for equality and justice. Through campaigns such as the One Million Signatures Campaign, they have approached Iran's judiciary officials and legislature to ask for the revision and reform of current discriminatory laws against women. These reforms include...

For more than two weeks, I watched helplessly as my brothers and sisters were beaten, arrested and killed in the streets of my homeland. As we entered the third week the sudden death of Michael Jackson shifted the world's attention from Iran. The wall-to-wall international coverage ended abruptly, leaving those...

I didn't see the Islamic Revolution. I was one month old when the Iran-Iraq war began. 8 years of my life were spent in an absolute fear. The soundtrack of my childhood was the air strike red alarm with that strident sound which was usually followed by the sound of...