The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the 1930s ...

On February 11th, Iran marked the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and tens of thousands of citizens attended a government-sponsored ceremony. By overthrowing the US-backed monarchy ...

I was born in the summer of 1979 in California, a few months after Iran's Islamic Revolution; my mother was in her early 20s and my grandmother was 50. Millions of Iranian women took part in the ...