Activists' tool for change in Iran:
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TEHRAN -- A new movement of passive resistance is quietly sweeping young people in Iran, a response both to the reform movement's failure to introduce political and economic change and conservatives' control over who can run for office, according to Iranian student leaders and political analysts.
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The hard-liners who won Iran's parliamentary elections have focused on women's rights in their efforts to reverse the reforms carried out under the moderate president.
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Iran wants to be a leader in the Islamic world, but it has often had to labor to unify its own people under one national identity.
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TEHRAN -- Two detained Iranian-Americans were shown on state television last night in a program contending that they tried to foment regime change in Iran with the support of the US government.
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Conference calls and e-mail messages to Congress have mostly replaced antiwar demonstrations and street theater. But itâs not clear if that makes for a more effective protest movement.
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Victoria's Secret has arrived in Tehran. So have the Gap, Diesel, Benetton and Black & Decker. A quarter-century after a mass movement inspired by Islam ended 2,500 years of monarchy, Iran's revolutionary society is moving on.
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Iran has released all but three of 31 jailed women's rights activists, ordering them not to attend a protest to mark International Women's Day in front of the Iranian parliament, one of the women's lawyers said Thursday.
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Nahid Keshavarz says two weeks in an Iranian jail didn't deter her from helping try to collect one million signatures for a petition urging more women's rights and, if anything, prison showed the cause was worth fighting for.
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Thousands of Iranians rallied near the site of a European Union summit Thursday to demand that the nations comply with a court ruling and remove an exiled Iranian resistance movement from its list of terrorist organizations.
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Protesters gather as Iran's president prepares to speak at Columbia University.
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The Labour Party issued activists at its annual conference with a &quot;campaign toolkit&quot; Wednesday, the latest hint that it is preparing for a possible election within weeks.
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A U.S.-based rights group has called on Iran to drop "politically motivated" charges against two Iranian women's rights activists facing trial for taking part in a protest and said they should be freed immediately.
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A group of world figures calls for efforts to heal the growing divide between Muslim and Western societies. Send us your views.
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The international community is once more contemplating what to do about Iran&#39;s quest for nuclear weapons. As often with the Islamic Republic of Iran, there are no easy options, but a series of
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There is an increasing awareness among Iranians of the contrast between their growing influence abroad and frailty at home.
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QOM, Iran  - Election posters of turbaned clerics are pasted on walls and newspapers debate the nature of divine rule before Friday's vote for what is, in theory, Iran's most powerful institution.
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Understanding the new and lethal logic of violence in the Middle East - and what the world can do to find peace