Why Is Iran’s Parliament So Different from Its Speaker, Ghalibaf?
Iran’s parliament remains dominated by hardliners, while Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf takes a more pragmatic line. Is this a real divide or a calculated division of labour?
From Demanding Rights to Exercising Them: Four Years After Woman, Life, Freedom
Four years after Jina Amini’s death, women are no longer only demanding rights from the state. Increasingly, they are exercising them in everyday life. Four years have passed since the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, the young Kurdish woman who died in September 2022 after being detained by Iran’s morality police in Tehran.
Revisiting Woman, Life, Freedom: Achievements, Challenges, and Life Beyond Protest
Four years on, Woman, Life, Freedom has moved from the streets into everyday life, even as repression, war, economic crisis, and new forms of violence threaten its gains.