The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the 1930s ...

Following the 1979 revolution, Iran’s clerical leaders created the IRGC outside—and as a counterweight to—the country’s traditional armed services, which they distrusted. Today ...

Before the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, while Israel and Iran did not have formal bilateral relations, they maintained ...

Iran is yet to file charges against a female student who was arrested after she removed her clothes at a university, a ...

The Iranian revolution of 1979 not only had an impact on regional and international affairs, but was made possible by the world and time in which it unfolded. This multi-disciplinary volume presents ...

I was born in the summer of 1979 in California, a few months after Iran's Islamic Revolution; my mother was in her early 20s and my grandmother was 50. Millions of Iranian women took part in the ...

The year of 1979 was a critical inflection point in the Middle East, as a result of the Islamic fundamentalist Revolution. That revolt has been not only disastrous to the ...

Iran suddenly founds itself on a powder keg ... deluge of demonstrators which many say has not happened since the 1979 revolution when the Shah was finally brought the Shah down.

This revolution is saying no to all of those systematic oppressions towards women and all other groups in Iran. Historically, we have to mention that over 40 years ago, 1979, when Iranian ...

After decades of rivalry, Iran and Saudi Arabia have understood that it is in their mutual interest to normalize their relations. However, a few sticking points remain.