For most people, the commanders Israel has just eliminated will be foreign names. For me and for the people of Iran they are the monsters who have terrorized our families. I’ve...

Two Russian Mobsters Were Convicted of Plotting to Kill Masih Alinejad...

he verdict is inthe mobsters that tried to kill Masih Alinejad on orders from Iran are GUILTY!! This is an incredible win for @masih.alinejad and sends a message to...

Last week I faced my would-be assassins, men sent by @khamenei_ir, who wants to kill me on U.S. soil. This morning, I joined @MariaBartiromo to share the story. I have no fear but...

Will you join me in giving a voice to #ArezooBadri, paralyzed after being shot by Iran’s morality police for not covering her hair? Arezoo needs us now. Make a video or write a...

Wow! Just watch it yourself to learn how to fight like an Iranian woman This video, shared by pro-regime accounts, is meant to instill fear, but how can one not be moved by the...

He promised he’d never comment on a woman’s appearance, but this time, Jonathan Kay. just couldn’t help himself. See my reaction. To those in the West who say we’re not at war with...

Iranian women’s rights activist @AlinejadMasih has been appointed as a member of the Gender Equality Advisory Council (GEAC), an independent consultative body of the G7 on...

‘One Solution, Revolution,’ Iranian Dissident Tells Copenhagen Democracy SummitIslamic Republic is beyond reform. It’s time it was removed...

My Stealthy Freedom turns 10...

After surviving a foiled kidnapping and assassinationattempt and being exiled to America, Iranian activistMasih Alinejad will not be silenced. By Joanne Camas It’s hard to know...

Wow I’m speechless! Today the US government asked the Iranian regime that killed #MahsaAmini and more than 500 people who protested her murder to investigate their own...

“They don’t care about public pressure from outside Iran, they only care when the leaders of democratic countries take strong action and isolate Khameini and his gang...

It’s been 13 years since Masih Alinejad hugged her mother. That realization hits her during a TIME interview in early February, followed by another one: “Oh my God, I forgot my...

My heart is broken; I received this video from the parents of a student in Tehran. This is the true face of Iranian regime which use chemical weapons to poison schoolgirls and then...

The intentional poisoning of schoolgirls in Iran is a revenge by Islamic Republic against the brave women who rejected the forced hijab and shook the ‘Berlin Wall’ of Khamenei.This...

Like Taliban and Boko Haram now Islamic Republic is poisoning schoolgirls in Iran. More than 1200 students are being hospitalized. My interview with @MSNBC on this biological...

Foreign minister of Belgium, @hadjalahbib who cut her hair in solidarity with #MahsaAmini and us Iranian women a few months ago, now welcomes our oppressors in Europe. Iranian...

For years, the West tried negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet, all it got is violence & insecurity. The West must negotiate with Iranian people. A democratic...

Iranian opposition activist Masih Alinejad told DW at the Munich Security Conference last week that Iranian women need more global support...

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By Alyssa Rosenberg and Masih Alinejad Since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of Iran’s “morality police” in September, Iranians around the world —...

Iranians Have Had Enough of Theocracy By Masih Alinejad The current protests in Iran sound the death knell of the Islamic Republic. The killing in police custody of Mahsa...

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Women are in the streets without scarves and standing up to the security forces. There is something new in the air It is 2am on 21 September. The widespread protests in Iran are...

Since 2014, Masih Alinejad has published videos of Iranian women removing their head scarves. When a twenty-two-year-old died last week in the morality police’s custody, the...

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The tears come quickly to Masih Alinejad when she talks about the messages she’s received in recent days from women in Iran protesting...

Viewers in Iran three weeks ago were treated to spectacle worthy of George Orwell’s 1984. On three separate nights, four women were brought on the main channel of the State-owned...

Maish Alinejad survived two assassination plots in as many years. She talks to Richard Hall about her work and living in safe houses. when Masih Alinejad first...

By Masih Alinejad Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author and women’s rights campaigner. A member of the Human Rights Foundation’s International Council, she hosts...

Masih Alinejad, a journalist who lives in Brooklyn, was the target of an international kidnapping plot last year, according to a federal indictment and the writer  A man was...

Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author and women’s rights campaigner. She hosts “Tablet,” a talk show on Voice of America’s Persian service. On July 17, Instagram...

A women’s rights activist with over 7 million followers on Instagram has warned that Iran may be manipulating the platform’s moderation system in its own favor. In an op-ed...

Nationwide Protest Against Compulsory Hijab July 12, Streets of Iran by #WhiteWednesdays and #MyCameraIsMyWeapon Campaigns For forty years, we, Iranian women, have been fighting...

La giornalista e attivista iraniana Masih Alinejad è protagonista del documentario Be my voice. Abbiamo incontrato lei, ricercata dal governo iraniana e sotto protezione, e la...

I am a woman of color. A woman from the Middle East, from Iran. I immigrated to the United States to be free. I know writing these words will make me politically incorrect in...

By INNA SHEVCHENKOCharlie Hebdo This is the #MeToo of clothing harassment. Voices of Middle Eastern women living in the West—or not—who had to wear hijab—or still do—are rising...

Date: December 13thTime: 6:15 pm ESTLocation: Online via ZoomHost: John AvlonSpeakers: Senator Chris Coons, Garry Kasparov, Masih Alinejad Global...

Democratic Senators Ben Cardin and Republican Pat Toomey introduced legislation on Dec. 2, 2021 that would propose sanctions be placed on the Islamic Republic over the foiled plot...

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Journalist and activist Masih Alinejad is the voice of millions of Iranian women rebelling on social media against the forced use of the hijab. Exiled...

With the abrupt decision by Biden to withdraw from Afghanistan, people of this country are shocked and heart-broken. After 20 years, Taliban is back and contrary to their claims...

In 2013, millions of Iranians voted for Hassan Rouhani as president, after eight years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During the campaign, supporters of Rouhani advocated for what they...

The world must not turn a blind eye to the treatment of women in Iran who are oppressed, incarcerated and lacking basic human rights too In recent years, a women’s rights movement...

Western governments must show solidarity with Iranian human rights activists and not abandon them for the sake of commercial activities with a regime that has abysmal record on...

At an event at the Swedish parliament, along with Dr. Javid Rahman, the UN special rapporteur, Masih Alinejad the founder of anti compulsory hijab movement in Iran, condemned the...

Iranian TV was forced to crudely cut away more than a 100 times from the live game between Premier League giants Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspurs on Sunday much to...

Recently, Ali Motahari, a former deputy speaker of Islamic Republic Majlis and a presidential candidate in the upcoming elections, turned up on Clubhouse to shockingly dismiss...

White Wednesdays activist Saba Kordafshari, has been temporarily released from prison on a furlough together with her mother, Raheleh Ahmadi.  Based on reports...

Women of #WhiteWednesdays in Iran are still in prison. By removing their compulsory hijab, they had produced this awe-inspiring video on women’s day on Tehran’s metro...

Coronavirus has been wreaking havoc in Iran. The country has long exceeded the threshold of more than 1 million cases. The situation is so grave that authorities had to resort to...

Did you know that in addition to being the only country in the world imposing a dress code on women, Iran is also the only country in the world that makes it forbidden to them to...

The bravery of Iranian women in the face of misogynist clerics who impose compulsory hijab on them is simply awe-inspiring. Over the course of our campaign, we have received...

After banning bicycle sharing services in Isfahan for more than a year, these bicycles have beenallowed to return to the streets of this city with two conditions: Women are banned...

Often times, the issue of compulsory hijab is cast as being a domestic matter. Some in the West, especially certain well-intentioned politicians don the compulsory hijab without...

The video of a woman riding a bicycle while unveiled and giving victory “V” signs has electrified Iranian social media.  The unknown woman from the town of Najafabad, near the...

Promoting the cause of democracy and human rights in Iran should be a pillar of any U.S. national security strategy. by Masih Alinejad Outside of the United States, few...

Women’s rights campaigner Masih Alinejad called on the international community during her address to the Oslo Freedom Forum, to ban the Islamic Republic from international sports...

Opinion by Masih Alinejad and Roya Hakakian Masih Alinejad is the founder of the #WhiteWednesdays campaign in Iran. Roya Hakakian is the author of “Journey from the Land of No: A...

Amnesty International confirmed what many activists have been saying for months: – Islamic Republic engaged in systemic abuses of human rights and torture to punish protesters who...

Opinion by Roya Hakakian Roya Hakakian is the author of the memoir “Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran.” Last fall, Iranian authorities...

Security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are chasing unveiled female drivers in Tehran today. Hossein Rahimi, commander of Tehran Province, said he’d given directives...

Thank you Roya Hakakian for this very thought-provoking article. As the Islamic Republic feels threatened by the activism of Masih Alinejad, founder of #MyStealthyFreedom and...

Their bravery is awe-inspiring. Despite the risk of getting arrested, these women openly opposed the compulsory hijab in Iran. Their names Yasaman Aryani, Monireh Arab-Shahi and...

In the face of coronavirus, the Islamic Republic of Iran initiated a campaign of lies, deceit, and cover-up. They did so in order to hide the depth of the coronavirus tragedy in...

The Islamic Republic last month handed out prison sentences totaling 109 years to six White Wednesdays campaigners to break our movement against compulsory hijab. In this fight...

I had the honor to open up the world premiere of “Women Warriors: Voices of Change,” concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC & the talented Amy Andersson. I...

Even with the threat of CoronaVirus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CoronaVirus?src=hashtag_click), Iranian women are continuing their fight for rights. That fight starts with...

Watch this heart breaking video from mother of 20-yr old #SabaKordafshari who was sent to 24 yrs in prison. Saba used her camera to film herself #walkingunveiled to protest...

White Wednesdays activist Saba Kordafshari, 22, was sentenced to a total of 24 years in prison by the Tehran Revolutionary Court for demanding an end to compulsory hijab laws. The...

Human rights lawyer Giti Pourfazel, one of 14 women who had signed a public letter calling on the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down, has...

Six United Nations rights experts last week condemned the 55-year prison sentences handed down to three White Wednesday women activists protesting the Islamic Republic’s compulsory...

Masih Alinejad is spearheading a broader movement that both unifies and amplifies the disparate strains of dissent now percolating within Iran. by Ilan Berman In late...

‘Women in these videos are braver and angrier than before,’ says Masih Alinejad Iranian women are sharing videos of themselves removing their headscarves in public...

Tehran’s head of revolutionary court said women who send Masih Alinejad videos risk jail sentence up to 10 years of jail. This is part of regime’s campaign intimidation to control...

By:  Ahmed Vahdat Iranian officials have warned that posting video footage of women removing their mandatory headscarves in public could lead to up 10 years imprisonment...

Yasaman Aryani, who was arrested and detained since April has been beaten up in Qarchak prison, according to sources close to the family. Islamic Republic judiciary is deliberately...

By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMAD NASIR TEHRAN, Iran — The simple act of walking has become a display of defiance for a young Iranian woman who often moves in Tehran’s streets...

Iran’s authorities are using incommunicado detention, prolonged solitary confinement and threats against family members in order to extract forced video “confessions”...

Can you believe that these women have been under pressure to give false confessions for such a peaceful act of protest against compulsory hijab? Noe Iranian activists tweeting...

Saba Kordafshari, aged 20, is one of the women warriors against compulsory hijab. She was arrested on 1 June and has been kept in prison, including 11 days in solitary confinement...

A video of a teenage girl in Tehran being violently arrested by police after playing with water guns has sparked fury in Iran, once again exposing Islamic Republic’s draconian...

Masih Alinejad in a special testimony before a special session of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Canadian Parliament asked for sanctions against Islamic Republic’s officials...

Yasmin Aryani, a women’s rights activist has been arrested along with her mother, Monireh Arabshahi, and Mojgan Keshavarz for the crime of peacefully protesting compulsory hijab...

After the 1979 revolution in Iran, women have been forced to wear the hijab in public. Back then, more than 100,000 women and men took to the streets to protest against the law and...

Today Iranian authorities arrested this brave woman of #WhiteWednesdays movement against compulsory hijab. They handcuffed her in front of her 9 year old daughter. Her name is...

Shaparak Shajarizadeh, named by the BBC as one of the 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2018, is part of a growing wave of activists pushing back...

On 8 March 1979, more than 100,000 women gathered on the streets of the Iranian capital to protest against the new Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling, which meant that...

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By Masih Alinejad and Roya Hakakian April 7 Masih Alinejad is the author of “The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran” and the founder of the #WhiteWednesdays...

As an Iranian woman in exile, I worry about my safety every single day Masih Alinejad Tuesday 9 April 2019 My childhood was spent learning about the exploits of “Shahid Bakeri” and...

While Western activists defend the right of Muslims to wear the veil, Iranian women are fighting for a bigger cause: choice. The revolution that swept through Iran 40 years ago...

Masih Alinejad is the founder of the My Stealthy Freedom movement. At Chicago Ideas Week, she shared the story of how she was banned from her home country of Iran for simply being...

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ALICE B. LLOYD A powerful woman, a protest movement, and the political interests impeding them. I mages of Iranian women standing on utility boxes and ripping off their mandatory...

By  Masih Alinejad With the U.S. pullout from the nuclear deal, Iran will soon face renewed economic sanctions, compounding a crisis that has seen its currency go into...

By Masih Alinejad Masih Alinejad is a journalist and the founder of My Stealthy Freedom, a campaign to oppose laws requiring head scarves in Iran.  She is the author of...

by: Gretchen Mullen In mid-summer of 2017, a social media campaign called White Wednesdays began sharing through Facebook a coordinated effort among Iranians to protest the...

By Masih Alinejad Masih Alinejad is a journalist and the founder of My Stealthy Freedom, a campaign to oppose compulsory head scarves in Iran. She can be found on Twitter:...

By Masih Alinejad Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist living in New York and creator of the My Stealthy Freedom campaign on Facebook. During an interview last month with...

Women, dressed in traditional Islamic hijab, walk past the former home of the late Ayatollah Khomeini on June 3, 2014 in Qom, Iran. John Moore—Getty Images...