Permission is a handmaid’s tale taken straight from the headlines. In 2015, Niloufar Ardalan was captain of the Iranian women’s indoor football team, which had just reached the Asian Championships final in Malaysia
Tag: Oppression on Women
Situation of women still concerning in Iran
A state-run news agency in Iran has reported that more than a third of women with higher education in the Kurdistan region are unemployed. The region’s Director General of Women and Family Affairs, Leila Ajhir, said that the figure is 38 percent
Poverty and oppression are driving Iranians to set themselves on fire
News broke today inside Iran that a disabled veteran of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) set himself on fire last week, and died, in the city of Qom. The man was reported as being 45% physically handicapped
Iranian women have the highest suicide rate in the Middle East
With every passing day, Iran sinks into more crises and disasters. Under the theocratic rule in Iran, the rate of women’s suicide has increased by mind-blowing proportions. Stats obtained from material published in Iran’s outlets display that Iran has the highest rate of suicide between women and girls in the Middle East
Teenage girl is thrown to the ground by Iranian cops for not wearing a hijab
An angry Iranian cop roughly grabbed an unsuspecting teenage girl and forcefully flung her on to the ground – because she wasn’t wearing a hijab
Iranian beauty queen fearing her death if returned to Iran begs for asylum
An Iranian beauty queen who used an image of Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the former Shah of Iran, as well as the flag of the former Iranian monarchy during a competition has been stuck in Manila’s international airport for two weeks, desperate to gain asylum out of fear that she will be killed if she is sent back to Iran
Another mother denied visits with children under Evin Prison director
Following additional restrictions imposed on political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison by its newly appointed Director Gholamreza Ziaei, Maryam Akbari-Monfared’s visits with her family members have been canceled, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned
Iranian music streaming site is photoshopping women out of their own album covers
Iranian music streaming website Melovaz is under fire today after it was discovered that, in accordance with the country’s strict censorship policies, the site is forced to Photoshop out women out of album cover art
Iranian government tells male managers to hire male secretaries
Iran’s interior ministry has confirmed reports in a conservative newspaper that instruction was issued to male managers in the government to “preferably” choose male secretaries
Iran TV airs confessions of detained Instagram star
Iran’s state-run TV aired Tuesday night the “confessions” of a young girl internationally dubbed as “zombie Angelina Joli
Female fans banned from Iranian league games
The Iranian domestic league resumed on Sunday and Monday with women fans barred from entering stadiums up and down the country
