Women on motorbikes zipping through streets of Iran's capital are the latest sign of societal change When 38-year-old Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to drive her yellow motorbike through the gridlocked streets of Iran's capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn't her main worry.

👇🇮🇷"Women on motorbikes zipping through streets of Iran’s capital are the latest sign of societal change"
#Iran #SlowChange #ClericRule #IranianWomen

Exiled Iranian prince says 50,000 defectors have contacted him to help topple regime Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah, is hosting a convention of activists in Munich Saturday to build support for democracy.

👇🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇷"Exiled Iranian prince says 50,000 defectors have contacted him to help topple regime" #RezaPahlavi #Iran #ClericRule #AliKhamenei

The secret mission to rescue Afghanistan’s last female politicians | Exclusive They were encouraged to get into politics by Western governments. Now, Afghanistan’s female politicians are enemies of the Taliban. CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault gets an exclusive look at the secret mission to get them to safety in Canada and the surprising political co-operation behind the scenes.

👇🇨🇦EXCLUSIVE: "The secret mission to rescue Afghanistan’s last female politicians" #Afghanistan #CBC #CanadianSecretMission #RescuingFemalePoliticians
#Taliban #ClericRule

Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public | CNN Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are cracking down on the sound of women’s voices in public, under a strict new set of vice and virtue laws under the Islamist regime.

👇🇦🇫"Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public" #Taliban #ClericRule
#MisogynistRegime #WomenUnseen #Afghanistan

A year ago, she drank battery acid to escape life under the Taliban. Today, she has a message for other Afghan girls | CNN Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that ...

👇🇦🇫 "A year ago, she drank battery acid to escape life under the Taliban. Today, she has a message for other Afghan girls" #AfghanGirls #Taliban #ClericRule
#MoralityPolice #Misogyny

Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’ Reports surface days before UN summit on Afghanistan that will exclude Afghan women and debate on women’s rights

👇🇦🇫 ... and so it continues #TalibanSexAssault
"Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’" #MoralityPolice #ClericRule
#Afghanistan #MisogynistNation

Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies: NGO Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capita...

👇🇮🇷"Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies" #IranExecutions #MisogynistNation #ClericRule

Iran says journalists charged after BBC report on protester death Iran’s judiciary rejects as “fake” a BBC report that alleges security forces killed Nika Shakarami.

👇🇮🇷 ... of course they did #Iran #ClericRule
"Iran charges journalists after BBC report on teen protester's death" #TeenProtesterKilledMolested

Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester Revolutionary Guards' papers passed to the BBC give chilling details of Nika Shakarami’s last movements.

👇🇮🇷"Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester" #ClericRule #Iran
#WomenAsObjects #Misogyny #IRGC

👇🇮🇷"Iranian regime accused of raping and violating protesters as young as 12" #WeaponizedRape #Iran
#ClericRule #MoralityPolice #MisogynisticState
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👇🇮🇷"Iranian teen Armita Geravand dies weeks after subway incident, state media reports" #ClericRule #Iran #ArmitaGeravand #MoralityPolice
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👇🇮🇷"Iranian teenager ‘brain dead’ after alleged metro encounter with police" #ClericRule #MoralityPolice
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