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From the start, women were at the center of the demonstrations that swept Iran last year. Schoolgirls emerged as an unexpected source of defiant energy.

What are Iranians willing to suffer in order to see their demands for fundamental change realized? … For now, the regional and wider reverberations of Iranian girls’ revolt could not be more seismic.

For women who lived through the 1979 Islamic revolution, today’s feminist rebellion against the political order evokes memories.

Azadeh Moaveni talks to Thomas Jones about the demonstrations in Iran following the killing of Mahsa Amini in September.

Allegations that her smuggler was a spy cast an entirely new light on the Home Office’s decision to strip Begum of her citizenship.

Azadeh Moaveni reports from the Polish border. The Russian assault​ on Ukraine has produced the largest and swiftest mass movement of women since the Second World War.

The economic slump in Iran after the reimposition of sanctions by the Trump administration is tearing away at the fragile gains Iranian women had made in employment and education.

As a literary genre, 1979 fiction is by necessity published by writers living outside Iran, where state censorship still stifles artistic production.

Instead of sabre-rattling against Iran and treating it as an enemy, should we instead pursue a policy of engagement and diplomacy? Azadeh Moaveni served as one of two speakers for the motion.