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Iran may pay for you to be trans, but it comes with a cost your dignity
Iran funds gender-affirming surgeries. While that may seem progressive, BI's investigation reveals …
Joshua Nelken-Zitser,addition…
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The activist Iran is accused of plotting to kidnap in NYC enraged the regime with a viral video campaign against its forced hijab laws
Masih Alinejad has long been a thorn in the side of Iran's hardline regime, exposing corruption and…
Tom Porter
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A 20-year-old TikToker killed while protesting for women's rights has become a symbol of Iran's resistance
After Hadis Najafi was killed by security forces, her TikTok and Instagram accounts have become a r…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Women in Iran are burning headscarves and cutting their hair in anti-hijab protests. They follow a long history of rising up for a woman's right to choose.
Iranian women and a young girl at a demonstration during the 1979 Iranian Revolution.Christine Spen…
Yoonji Han
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I fought for the right to wear the hijab in professional basketball. I'm finding hope in progress amid the Iranian protests over women's right to choose.
"Hijabi Hooper" Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir made NCAA history as the first woman to play basketball in a hj…
Yoonji Han
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Women in Iran defy the Islamic regime by removing their headscarves and waving them in the air in protests over police custody death, video shows
At the funeral of Mahsa Amini, who died days after being arrested by Iran's morality police, protes…
Joshua Zitser
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Muslim women are taking off their headscarves and cutting their hair on TikTok to protest Iran's hijab rules following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini
Women post TikToks protesting the death of Mahsa Amini in Iranian police custody after she was deta…
Charissa Cheong
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A young couple in Iran were sentenced to 10 years in prison after they were filmed dancing together
Astiyazh Haghighi, 21, and her fiance, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, 22, were filmed dancing romantically i…
Matthew Loh
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Middle East hawks are calling for another dangerous showdown in order to sink the Iran deal for good
Opinion | Those hawks claim that, thanks to failed policies they advocated, the US must prepare for…
Jeremy Ben-Ami
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Iran executes second person after mass protests shook the country. 25 more are said to be next.
Thousands in Iran have been detained over the human rights protests, and more executions could foll…
Sinéad Baker
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If Biden actually wants to help Iranians, there's an easy way to do it
Biden has said he wants to tailor US sanctions to avoid unintended harm, but millions still suffer …
Mani Mostofi
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For the 2nd year in a row, Iran is sailing its biggest warship around the world to show off its growing navy
Iran's navy chief said two Iranian warships are sailing around the globe to "show the authority of …
Constantine Atlamazoglou
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An Italian Instagram travel influencer was arrested at her 30th birthday party in Iran amid the antigovernment demonstrations
Before her arrest, Alessia Piperno had posted on Instagram about people being fed up in Iran and ta…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Iran's 'trajectory' is another revolution but the hijab protesters need leaders to topple the Islamic regime, Middle East experts say
Mahsa Amini's death, arrested for not wearing her hijab correctly, has triggered violent protests a…
Joshua Zitser
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Iran state media wants the US banned from the World Cup after the team posted photos meant to show solidarity with Iranian protestors
The United States Soccer Federation drew ire after they displayed photos on social media showing su…
Hannah Getahun
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Iran's World Cup soccer team refused to sing the national anthem before their game to show solidarity with protesters fighting the regime back home
"We have to accept that the conditions in our country are not right and our people are not happy," …
Jake Epstein,Alan Dawson
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America's obsession with secret societies is a mainstay of our democracy and it resurfaces whenever there's a renewed push for civil rights, the author of a new book says
Colin Dickey, author of "Under the Eye of Power," told Insider that belief in secret societies incr…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Iran spied on her for months and plotted to kidnap her from her Brooklyn home, but a defiant Masih Alinejad says she refuses to be intimidated by the Islamic Republic
Iranian national agents bribed her family, spied on her home, and even looked into using military-s…
Joshua Zitser
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Activist targeted in kidnapping plot says Iran is testing the US and 'to take no action signals weakness'
Masih Alinejad told Insider she was disappointed by the White House response and the administration…
Erin Snodgrass,Paul Squire
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Iranian intelligence officials charged with plotting to kidnap a US journalist and activist who was critical of the country's regime, feds say
The Justice Department did not name the target, but journalist Masih Alinejad confirmed to The New …