The Iranian Writers' Association has condemned the detention of Milad Jannat, a poet, and demanded the release of all other prisoners of consience.
The Iranian Parliament's move to obligates the government to distribute free asphalt worth around $600 million to road contractors has become controversial.
A senior member of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce says "herd immunity" is "an incompetent theory".
Iranians are asking why a coronavirus detection machine "unveiled" as a "breakthrough" by IRGC in April has not been put to use to prevent the new alarming surge in COVID cases.
For the first time since February, on July 7 Iran's official death toll rose to 200 while according to the Chairman of Tehran City Council over the last 24-hour reporting period 70 died in the capital Tehran alone.
Soaring COVID cases in Iran might bring back lockdown to its second largest city, where tens of thousands of pilgrims are expected to arrive this week.
Iran's State Welfare Organization and the Psychology and Counseling Organization of Iran are pressuring mental health workers to avoid controversial issues such as honor killings on social media.
Iranian media on June 24 reported that police in Tehran have arrested three people for selling babies online for adoption.
Iranian security forces on Sunday Arrested Sharmin Meymandinejad, founder and director of the biggest anti-poverty NGO in the country called Imam Ali Society, and shut down its head office.
Victims of the notorious judge and prosecutor who was found dead in suspicious circumstances at a Bucharest hotel on Friday have begun speaking up. Azam Jangravi, one of the women activists against compulsory hijab, is one of them who has told Radio Farda about her ordeal.
In the past few days a travel agency's advertisement of tours to highly perilous mountain paths where hundreds of "human mules" have lost their lives has outraged many Iranians.
The attack by the Chief of the Islamic Propaganda Organization on Instagram in an open session of the Iranian Parliament on Sunday has worried many Iranians that plans are being made to block the platform.
A Romanian court on June 12 postponed the extradition of Gholamreza Mansouri to Iran. The judge and former prosecutor is wanted by Iran for corruption.
Iran's Judiciary Spokesman on June 13 confirmed that the Interpol has arrested Gholamreza Masouri, one of the defendants in a recent sensational corruption case involving a former deputy of the Judiciary, in Romania.
Iranian media have recently been speculating about the possible nomination of Seyed Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khomeini, in Iran's presidential election next spring.
The proposal of an Iranian cleric to make marriage compulsory and levying taxes on those who refuse to build a family has become a hot topic among social media users that have already made tens of jokes about it.
Recent protests in the United States, treatment of protesters by US security forces in comparison with Iran, and the approach of the highly censored Iranian media to the issue have become hot topics in Persian-language social media in the past few days.
Iran has completely lifted all coronavirus restrictions across the country while according to health officials infections still remain high at more than 2,000 new cases every day.
Iranian human rights news agencies on May 29 reported that the agents of the security department of Ahwaz police arrested at least thirty citizens in Shooshtar in Khuzestan Province on May 28.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on May 29 called on the United States to "listen to the voice of protesters' and stop imposing limitations on the media.
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