Paniz Faryousefi made history as the first woman to lead Iran's Tehran Symphony Orchestra since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conducting sold-out shows Wednesday and Thursday at Vahdat Hall despite long official gender bias in the arts.
Tehran's state-appointed Friday prayer leader said that defiance of the Islamic veil was tantamount to collaboration with Israel and the United States, underscoring tension in the clerical establishment on hijab enforcement.
Iran’s judiciary chief instructed prosecutors nationwide to work with security and police agencies to identify what he called “organized groups linked to foreigners” involved in “social irregularities,” escalating the state’s campaign to enforce the mandatory hijab.
Iran has lost 12,000 university professors over the past decade, a former deputy science minister said on Friday, highlighting the rapid unraveling of the country’s higher-education workforce.
Diabetes is appearing at far younger ages than before, Iran’s deputy health minister said on Thursday, estimating that about 7.5 million people nationwide now live with the disease.
Iranian families across several regions described a rapid contraction of their diets in recent weeks, portraying kitchens reduced to bread-only meals as prices rose sharply across the country as reflected in multiple messages shared with Iran International.
Iran's metro police arrested two men dressed in army air defense uniforms on Wednesday after they held up the pre-1979 Iranian flag at a Tehran station, according to Iranian media reports.
In Iran, privilege often dresses itself as virtue, with the best-known example being a former vice president’s son boasting about his “good genes”—a phrase now firmly embedded in the national lexicon.
Iranian state TV is facing backlash for criticizing a footballer and his wife as immoral even after it was mute about a scandal over the daughter of a top official's revealing wedding dress last month.
Iran’s political establishment is once again flirting changing laws to allow women to ride motorcycles even as women and girls have already spent years doing it without waiting for an official green light.
A confidential survey has found that more than nine in ten Iranians are unhappy with the country’s direction, the Tehran-based news site Rouydad24 reported on Wednesday citing an unnamed polling organization.
Homayoun Ershadi, one of Iran’s most internationally recognized actors who rose from a career in architecture to global movie fame through Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry and later The Kite Runner, has died at the age of 78.
It’s eleven o’clock at night in Tehran when I open the phone lines for my live call-in show, The Program. Friday night is when I ask Iranians to do something that has become almost subversive: not just to talk, but to listen.
Prices of medicines, medical equipment and healthcare services in Iran have surged by around 70% following the government’s removal of the subsidized exchange rate for drug imports, domestic media reported on Monday.
Iran’s worsening water crisis, described by a top United Nations environmental expert as a state of “water bankruptcy,” risks crippling the country’s infrastructure, undermining its stability, and weakening its influence internationally.
A women’s sports coach has been detained in Tehran after performing acrobatic moves in public without wearing a headscarf, a human rights group said on Monday, as Iranian authorities continue to enforce the country’s mandatory hijab law.
About 14% of Iran’s adult population, roughly 7.5 million people, live with diabetes, and nearly one in three are unaware of their condition, the head of Iran’s Endocrine and Metabolism Research Institute, Bagher Larijani, said on Monday.
Iran’s National Water and Wastewater Company on Sunday rejected reports of imposing formal rationing in Tehran but admitted nightly pressure cuts citywide that may fall to zero amid worsening shortages, state media reported.
Hardliners in Iran have seized on oblique remarks made by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei earlier this week as a green light to crack down on women who have shunned the hijab amid lax enforcement in recent years.
Iran’s water industry officials warned on Saturday that rationing in Tehran began far too late, as the capital’s water situation deteriorates rapidly amid one of its driest periods in nearly fifty years.
Unveiled women were allowed to attend a Tehran ceremony on Friday where authorities showcased a new statue of pre-Islamic king Shapur I, in what seems to be part of the government’s turn to nationalism to rally support after June's war with Israel.
Reports that YouTube access had been restored for students at the University of Tehran while it remains blocked for the wider population, though denied swiftly by officials, triggered outrage among critics of Iran's censorship of the internet.