An Iranian teenager who was reportedly assaulted by state morality police for not wearing a mandatory hijab is now ‘brain dead’, state media say. Armita Geravand, 16, fell into a coma earlier this month after she sustained ‘severe injuries’ following a ‘physical assault’ by female morality police officers on the Tehran metro, according to a human rights group. Hengaw,... 

Amid widespread anti-government protests, Iran is facing a slow collapse of the ruling Islamic Republic regime, according to Iranian expert Dr Roham Alvandi. The demonstrations, triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, pose a significant challenge to Iran’s clerical leaders. Unlike previous protests, the current unrest involves unarmed young people standing... 

In spite of the government’s attempt to quell discontent with an internet blackout, protests are raging across the country, and the father of an Iranian lady who died in police detention last week has accused officials of lying about her death. Doctors wouldn’t allow Amjad Amini visit his daughter after she passed away, according to Amjad Amini, whose daughter Mahsa passed away following... 

In the footage, a sizable audience applauds as a lady raises a pair of scissors to her hair while showing no sign of wearing a headscarf. She chops off her ponytail and raises her fist in the air as the sea of people, many of whom are guys, yell. It was a potent display of defiance on Tuesday night in Kerman, Iran, where women are required to cover their heads in public. It was just one of numerous... 

Shamima Begum was a member of the Isis morality police, a feared group which enforced the terror organisation’s strict interpretation of Islamic law – and she also tried to recruit other young women to join the jihadist group. The 19-year-old British citizen, who fled her home in Bethnal Green four years ago with two other schoolgirls, has claimed that she was only a “housewife” during her... 

Iran’s senior cleric criticized what he perceived as women’s overly liberal choices of clothing “as if they were in Europe,” and accused the trend of being behind one of Iran’s rivers drying up. Superstitions? Nah just pure Muslim insanity… “My office has received photos of women next to the dry Zayandeh-rud River [the largest river in central Iran] pictured as if they are in Europe....