These days, in different cities of Iran, there are women and girls without hijab - despite arrests and fines (from $10 to $70,000, depending on the judge) - in public places, such as schools and...
Last month, Global Comment published an article by Simin Fadaee, which is about the killing of Mahsa Amini and the widespread protests of Iranians after this incident. The writer has made references...
Simin Fadaee, University of Manchester Forty-four years after Iranians rose up against their hated monarch in February 1979, a group of 20 organisations engaged in long-term social and economic...
Russia has resumed attacks against Ukraine's cities and energy infrastructure using Iranian-made drones. There are also indications it is willing to assist the Iranian regime's brutal crackdown on...
Pardis Mahdavi, The University of Montana Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a...
More than a decade ago, when Ahmadinejad became the president of Iran for the second time and the people protested the announcement of the results, Jafar Panahi was arrested. On July 30, 2009, he -...
This year's unprecedented attacks against Iraqi Kurdistan have had detrimental effects on the autonomous region's energy and tourism sectors. On July 20, Iraqi tourists converging on Zakho's Parakh...
While all eyes are on Ukraine, Turkey is preparing to reinvade Syria. Given that Moscow – the major ally of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad – is still preoccupied with the war in the Eastern...
On February 22, 2022, the issue of the Protection Bill in Iran, which aims to apply regulation to the internet, came to the fore. The bill, according to Iranian officials, is to support web users,...
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd J. Austin III was in the island kingdom of Bahrain over the weekend where he, as the New York Times succinctly put it, "faced tough questions about how Arab allies were...
