A vérité portrait of a defiant woman who breaks through gender norms in a village in north­west Iran, Cutting Through Rocks ...

Making history as Iran’s first-ever Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, a breathtaking new film chronicles the extraordinary life of a lone female leader fighting for change in a patriarchal r ...

Amid the alarming surge in executions by Iran comes the news that every man in one village has apparently been executed on drug charges. Shahindokht Molaverdi, the cabinet member for women and family ...

Iran’s famous “twins village” of Shahrabad, a tiny community in Abarkuh county in central Yazd province, did not emerge in verified reporting as a protest flashpoint, but residents faced the same ...