President Putin is looking to improve his relationship with Turkey.
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Russia’s plan to start flights to Northern Cyprus is likely to provoke a reaction from Greece.
Iranians protest in Tehran on Oct. 27, 2022.
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Iranian protesters aren’t satisfied winning small battles within the Islamic regime. Their aim is a revolution that will result in universal human rights.
Photographs capture images of women in war-torn regions of the world.
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Pictures of women in war play a pivotal role in the battlefield of political ideas, argues a feminist historian who examines how images and attire are used and seen in war zones and occupied lands.
Iranians protest in Istanbul: anger continues to grow despite the regime’s crackdowns.
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Iran’s constitution guarantees human rights but its government doesn’t.
Gratuitous destruction: a children’s playground after a Russian bombardment, October 2022,
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Iran’s short-range surface-to-surface Fateh-110 being test-fired in 2010.
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Iran has showcased these new weapons, with deadly result, in Yemen and Lebanon.
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As calls for greater freedom grow, the author examines how secularism might work in Iran.
A placard with a picture of Mahsa Amini, whose death while being detained by Iran’s morality police has ignited a wave of protests across the country.
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Iranian women have a long history of campaigning for their rights. The latest protests bring together a host of religious and gender groups suppressed by the country’s clerical regime.
The aftermath of a drone attack on Kyiv, October 17 2022.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
A poster with a drawing of Marge Simpson cutting her hair in support of Iranian women, by aleXsandro Palombo, at a demonstration in London.
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Through different works and artists who have worked with hair we can understand what having control over one’s own hair implies for female identities.
Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a Kyiv residential building destroyed by a drone that local authorities consider to be Iranian-made.
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Iran has a growing role in the Ukraine war, helping Russia augment its dwindling weapons supplies. That may help Russia, but it also serves Iran’s national interests.
A woman who’s not wearing a hijab flashes a victory sign as she walks around in the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, on Oct. 1, 2022. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police for allegedly wearing her mandatory Islamic veil too loosely.
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To many Iranians, a revolution has happened given the public’s embrace of women and their demands amid ongoing protests. The question is whether the solidarity holds up and the regime listens.
Iranian newspaper headlines about the protests that started with death of Mahsa Amini.
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Controversy of veils goes back more than a century, a scholar of Iran explains.
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In 1979 the decision of military commanders not to fire on protesters led to the revolution. There is no sign of that yet.
Giving the regime the finger: students protest in Isfahan, Iran.
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The autocratic regime of Ayatollah Khamenei is coming under pressure like never before.
Protests have happened all over the world in support of the anti-hijab movement in Iran.
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Protesters call for a change in rules over what women are forced to wear in Iran. An expert tells us what the law says.
Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to protest the death of Mahsa Amini.
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Imposing restrictions on women has been a way for many countries to demonstrate to the world what policies they want to pursue.
Casting off oppression: women are taking off their compulsory hijab in protest against oppression.
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The hijab, which was forced on all Iranian women after the 1979 revolution, is a tool of oppression.
Women holding up photographs of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, on Sept. 24, 2022.
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A scholar of Iranian politics explains how Iranians have organized resistance movements for the past several decades while risking arrest and public flogging.
Iranian women have taken to burning hijabs in protest at the death of Mahsa Amini.
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Data shows that more than half of Iranian women oppose the compulsory wearing of hijabs and that the vast majority oppose an Islamic Republic.