Structural Violence in Iran’s Education System
Continuing from the previous episode, this time we look at structural violence from the perspective of families and society. In this section, with the program expert Ms. Saba Alaleh, a political-social psychoanalyst, we discuss the role of teachers in identifying violence, raising parental awareness, and the shocking cases of child abuse in schools. We examine […]
Death in School: Structural Violence in Iran’s Education System
In the first part of this series, we examine four shocking deaths in Iranian schools: children who lost their lives within school walls under the pressures of fear, poverty, and punitive discipline. In this episode, we discuss child suicides, deaths caused by teacher punishment, and the role of families that, instead of providing protection, become […]
The Life-and-Death Challenges of Prisoners and Women’s Prisons in the Islamic Republic
According to reports from the Iran Human Rights Organization and independent sources, since 2010, at least 97 prisoners have died due to denial of medical services in Iranian prisons. In 2024 alone, more than 18 deaths related to lack of medical treatment were reported. Fashafouyeh, Raja’i Shahr, and Qarchak prisons have the highest numbers of […]
The Death Machine Under Velayat-e Faqih – World’s Highest Rate of Women Executions
In 2025, Iran broke a three-decade record: more than 1,100 death sentences in less than a year, with an unprecedented increase in executions of women, children, and political protesters. In this episode, Sahar Naseri and Nazila Golestan, together with guest Hassan Naib Hashem, a physician and human rights activist, examine official and unofficial statistics to […]
Transition from the Velayat-e Faqih’s “Gender Apartheid” (Interview with Hannah Newman – Part Two)
Conversation between Nazila Golestan from Iran Hamāva and Hannah Newman, Head of the Europe-with-Iran Group The Raavi–Hamāva podcast series aims to expand the national discourse around universal values, democracy, the separation of religion and state, human rights, gender equality, and the protection of Iran’s territorial integrity. Within such a framework, through collective wisdom, we can […]
Transition from the Velayat-e Faqih’s “Gender Apartheid” – Interview with Hannah Newman (Part One)
Conversation between Nazila Golestan from Iran Hamāva and Hannah Newman, Head of the Europe-with-Iran Group
What Are the Biggest Challenges Facing the Mahsa Movement After Three Years?
The Women, Life, Freedom movement continues to flow at the heart of Iranian society, but it faces significant challenges. The regime has attempted to silence the movement through executions, arrests, digital surveillance, and internet censorship, while civil society has borne heavy human and economic costs. Widespread repression, the lack of organized leadership within the country, […]
Women, Life, Freedom: Achievements
The torch of the Women, Life, Freedom movement remains in the hands of women and men standing for human dignity—from the streets of Kurdistan and Sistan and Baluchestan, the shores of the Caspian and the pristine coasts of the Persian Gulf, to Tehran, from universities to sports fields. Three years have passed since the death […]
Beyond the Hijab (Part Two)
In the second episode, part two, Sahar Naseri, Nazila Golestan, and the program guest Mansoureh Hosseini-Yeganeh, a researcher and journalist specializing in women’s issues, explore: what are the main demands of today’s Iranian women? Can the Velayat-e Faqih regime maintain its survival with slight concessions regarding the hijab, or does this retreat indicate an ideological […]
Beyond the Hijab (Part One)
In the first episode, we heard that the Islamic Republic’s war against women has continued from the streets to digital tools. In the second episode, Sahar Naseri, Nazila Golestan, and the program guest Mansoureh Hosseini-Yeganeh, a researcher and journalist specializing in women’s issues, explore another dimension of compulsory hijab: from government propaganda through television and […]
Hijab – Compulsory Life (Part Two)
In the second part of Hijab – Compulsory Life, we examine the contradictions in Iran’s hijab law: massive budgets were spent to approve and enforce punishments—from fines and travel bans to imprisonment—but its enforcement was suddenly declared halted. At the same time, security technologies such as smart cameras and reporting apps became tools of women’s […]
Hijab – Compulsory Life (Part One)
We are on the eve of the third anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom movement, a revolutionary movement that has transformed not only the political structure but also the cultural, social, artistic, and moral fabric of the country. The achievements of this movement over the past three years, alongside international pressures—especially after Israel’s 12-day war […]