Culture and Society Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: /Suicide rates among young and middle aged Iranians, particularly women, have been on the rise. Tehran subway, residential towers, and bridges such as Tabeat (Nature) bridge have witnessed numerous jump-to-death style suicides. ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: /Shahab Hosseini is among Iranian movie stars who frequent the US to attend events hosted by exiled Iranians. While Iranian actresses are pressured if they remove their head scarf outside Iran, male actors are often ...
Entertainment and Society Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: /The recent trip to Canada by another popular Iranian TV host (Rambod Javan) and images of her pregnant (third) wife in Canada without Hijab (Islamic head cover mandated inside Iran) have stirred outrage inside Iran. Rambod ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Iranian pro footballer Mohsen Forouzan, the goalkeeper of Tractor Sazi FC was recently detained and then released together with his wife, model Nasim Nahali on charges of running a gambling agency and fixing games ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Iranian women are among the most progressive, educated minorities in the Middle East and recently they made history again./Sommayeh Yazdani's first ever Asian medal for Iranian female cycling team in April was a ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Vida Jen Nesar, who runs a "Virtual Cat Walk" website in Iran to avoid showing female body parts in compliance with Iran's conservative Islamic rules, has defended the idea as an opportunity for creative and ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: The often sensual Lebanese Christian actress Ann Marie Salama is now seen in Hijab (Islamic head and body cover) speaking Persian on a Persian TV series (Havali Payiz, or Around Autumn) screened on Iran's state run TV ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: In a bizarre development, Iran's Islamic Judiciary has arrested Maryam Kazemi, the director of a Persian adaptation of Shakespeare's well known play Midsummer Night's Dream, together with Saeed Asadi, director of City ...
In a rare unprecedented interview on the roo-dar-roo (face-to-face) program, Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, daughter of chief architect of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, discusses strong opposition to mandatory hijab and theocratic Islamic government ruled by ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related, news/events, Kodoom.com: In a speech unprecedented in Iranian Islamic Parliament, the head of Women's fraction, MP Parvaneh Salahshouri, lashed out at the clerics, IRGC militants (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), and even the Supreme ...
