The recent protests were the biggest threat to Iran's authoritarian leaders in at ... the hijab has become a powerful symbol with different meanings. The regime sees it representing its own ...

Babaei – who has a large social media presence in Iran – knows what it’s like to become an accidental symbol for protest. Her name became synonymous with the “Girls of Revolution Street ...

Now in their third week, protests have continued even as ... theme of protesters attacking structures and symbols that represent Iran’s government, in some cases setting fire to municipal ...

Now, the women-led protests have made them a symbol of a clashing vision of Iran’s future. By Amanda Taub Long before protests started spreading across Iran last month, the hijab — the Islamic ...

It was the unexplained death of another young woman, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Iran’s morality police that first sparked the nationwide protests in mid-September. Despite a ...

and which turned Abbasi — like Amini and Nika Shahkarami before her — into a symbol of Iran’s protest movement. The contents of the leaked accounts — conversations between medics on ...

“Historically, protest movements in Iran, going back to the 19th century ... “extraordinary departure” in that “women are its symbol and became the initial propellors of change.” ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a history ... Amini became a symbol of resistance that sparked the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement, prompting protests and rallying all generations and sexes ...