Author: Julie Ershadi

By Julie Ershadi • Nov 20,2013

Iran Eases Dress Code For Women — A Little

Following through on a campaign promise, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani announced last week a loosening of one of the Islamic Republic’s most visible and most notorious assaults on personal freedom:...

By Julie Ershadi • Sep 23,2013

Iranian Gestures To Obama Weaken Opposition Group

A vocal and militant opposition group to the Iranian government, the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, has taken some pretty hard hits recently. A Sept. 1 attack on Camp Ashraf in Iraq, where around...