When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ride her yellow scooter through the gridlocked streets of Iran ‘s capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn’t her main worry. Women on ...
On a cold Tehran night, an elderly woman walked through a crowd of protesters, chanting against the state. Her mouth appeared bloodied. She did not slow down. “I’m not afraid,” she shouted. “I’ve been ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — In the beliefs of some conservative clerics and hard-liners, a woman riding a scooter or a motorbike is “tabarruj,” or an excessive flaunting of her beauty prohibited by Islam.
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