Monday 28 Jan 2008, Iran's most important women's magazine, Zanan, (Women) has been forced to close after 16 years of publication, after being accused of painting a "dark picture" of Iran.

Zanan's founder Shahla Sherkat is considered a prime example of Islamic Iranian feminism.

Friday 25 Jan 2008, Adnkronos International (AKI) - Iranian authorities are looking at new restrictions that will create different school textbooks for boys and girls.

Ali Reza Ali Ahmadi, responsible to the interim public education minister, told a seminar on textbooks there was a need to provide students with books according to "the requirements of age and sex" to satisfy their particular needs.

Saturday, 08 December 2007- The mullahs' regime has created a new suppressive force called the "Special Police Station Women." The news was announced by Fariba Shygan, a women commander and the head of Kosar Higher Education Institute, belonging to the State Security Forces (SSF), the official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday.

Sunday, 25 November 2007- The Observer (Robert Tait in Tehran) reported
GP dies in custody after arrest for sitting with her fiancé in the park - and the police say it is suicide

Nothing about Zahra Baniyaghoub's life suggested she would have wanted to end it. With a flourishing career as a doctor and a stable relationship with a man she loved, she seemed to have everything to live for.

TEHRAN, Aug 21, 2007 (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday released on bail US-Iranian academic Haleh Esfandiari, whose detention for the past three months on security charges further inflamed tensions with arch enemy the United States.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police will intensify a crackdown on women flouting Islamic dress code, a police official told a newspaper on Sunday, in the first reinforcement of regular summertime campaigns.

Such crackdowns have become a regular feature of Iranian life, but it is the first time police have pledged to toughen up measures that began in April.

Sunday, 15 July 2007 Ahmad Reza Radan, the head of Tehran's police force, dismissed any notion that the new wave of crackdown on women was now fizzling out, saying it was "unstoppable''.

Sunday, 15 July 2007 Today, the mullahs’ regime hanged in public a female prisoner identified as Hurieh and two male prisoners identified as Farhad and Reza in the northeastern city of Tabriz, the state-run T.V. reported.

Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) called for condemnation of crimes by the mullahs’ regime

On Wednesday, the mullahs’ regime sentenced eight women to death who are currently serving time in the Iranian prisons, the state-run daily Etemad-Meli reported.

Tehran, Iran, Jul. 03 – Iran’s judiciary has sentenced a women’s right activist to lashes and prison time for taking part in an anti-government protest last year, state media reported.