Bourse and Bazaar | Ahmad Parhizi: Three years after the #MeToo movement spread globally, Iranian women have broken their silence on sexual violence, raising awareness about a subject that's taboo in Iran. For the past week, many mostly anonymous internet users in Iran have come forward with allegations of falling unconscious and being raped after ...

Al-Monitor | Leila Alikarami: Just a few years after the West was consumed with the #MeToo movement, a similar movement has finally emerged among Iranians, sending shockwaves across Persian language social media. Over the past week, many women and men have come forward to talk about their experiences of rape and sexual assault by dozens of high-profile ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Mother of 14-year-old victim expresses fury at lenient sentence as critics say Iranian law unfairly favours men An Iranian man who beheaded his 14-year-old daughter has been sentenced to only nine years in jail, in a case that has sparked outrage at the way Iranian law appears to enshrine supposed male rights over womens ...

IRNA - FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Wednesday described the 1st presence of Iranian women at Azadi stadium as a very significant turning point in the year 2019. He termed 2019 as the year of women, adding necessary steps were taken on women's contribution to football during the year. In 2019, female spectators participated at Iran's Azadi ...

Reuters - Irans Football Federation has given world governing body FIFA a written commitment that women will be allowed to attend matches in the domestic club league, a source with knowledge of the discussions said on Friday. In October, Iranian women watched the countrys national team for the first time in 40 years, when they were given access ...

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: I just cannot believe how much we shouted and cheered, Maryam, 27, told Al-Monitor as she walked out of Tehran's Azadi Stadium. I even cried at some point; I was so moved. On Oct. 10, the Iranian national soccer team scored 14 goals against the Cambodian team in the qualifier for the World Cup 2022, which will take place ...

ISNA | Hadi Zand: Iranian women entered the country's national stadium in Tehran on Thursday after being able to purchase tickets for a national team game for the first time in 40 years.  

Reuters - Iranian women entered the countrys national stadium in Tehran on Thursday after being able to purchase tickets for a national team game for the first time in 40 years. Women have been banned from watching mens games since shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution with only a few exceptions made for small groups on rare occasions. But ...

The New York Times | Tariq Panja: When Irans national soccer team takes the field on Thursday for an otherwise humdrum World Cup qualifier, there will be outsize interest not in the action on the field but in who is seated in the stands. For the first time in almost four decades, women will be allowed to buy tickets and attend a match. The game ...

Daily Sabah - FIFA has been "assured" by Iranian authorities that women will be able to attend the October World Cup qualifier in Tehran, Gianni Infantino, president of the body said on Sunday. A female Iranian fan died earlier this month, after setting herself on fire to protest against her arrest for attending a match. FIFA officials have been ...

MNA Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa Division has welcomed passing a bill by Iranian parliament to grant citizenship to children born of Iranian mothers. In a post on her Twitter account, Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa Division ...

IRNA Iranian vice-president said on Monday that 27 percent of faculty members at Iranian universities, and half of the students in the country are female. Iranian women have gained significant achievements over the past 40 years since the Islamic Revolution despite all challenges the country has been facing, Iranian Vice-President for family and ...

MNA Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iranian Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, described the Islamic Republic of Iran as a successful model for the role of women in the social sphere while preserving religious and moral values in the world. Ebtekar told reporters on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the first women's studies course at Qom Religions ...

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Iranian women's relationship with sports events could hardly be more complicated. They are allowed to watch female competitions but barred from most men's events (women have occasionally been granted permission to watch men's volleyball and basketball). The toughest taboo has always been men's soccer; this has drawn constant ...

Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: Saba was just 25 when she left her design jobin New York to work on a project renovating an art gallery back in herhometown Tehran. Within months, she won three more contracts to do up galleries and thelobby of an apartment complex. "I had dreamt of building my own company, but I hadn't expected it tohappen any time soon....

IRNA - Iran's Foreign Ministry Homeira Rigi Zirouki has been appointed as Iran's new ambassador to Brunei. Foreign Ministry announced in a statement that Rigi was appointed to the post on the proposal of Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and the approval of President Hassan Rouhani. Rigi will be heading for the mission in the coming days,...

Al-Monitor - For the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic, a woman from Iran's Sunni minority has been offered an ambassadorship. Homeira Rigi, currently the governor of a southeastern town, is set to make history as the head of the Iranian mission in Brunei. The 43-year-old Reformist has been serving in different executive positions for ...

Tehran Times - Iranian women are permitted to spectate a friendly match between Irans womens football team and Russias in a women-only crowd at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran. The timing of the match is not out yet, although the sports ministrys officials have given the green light to the women for attending the match. The last female Iranians who ...

Reuters - Global soccer body FIFA has been urged by its own human rights advisory panel to give Iran a deadline for allowing women to watch soccer matches. In a report published Monday, the panel said that Irans ban on women fans violated FIFAs own ethics code which specifically prohibits discrimination including on the basis of gender. Iranian ...

Tasnim AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa joined FIFA President Gianni Infantino in welcoming the presence of more than 1,000 female fans at the Azadi Stadium for the 2018 AFC Champions League final on Saturday. After the final won 2-0 on aggregate by Japans Kashima Antlers against Persepolis of Iran, Shaikh Salman said, "Football ...