According to reports from Iranian regime-controlled media, the National Virtual Space Center has made a decision to deem the use of VPNs as ‘illegal’. This resolution has already been ...
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Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance – Involved In
Iranian Political Elite’s Expatriate Offspring
Revelations that the son of Iran's parliament speaker was attempting to get a residence permit in Canada has reignited discussion around officials' children living abroad. This is not a ...
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How a U of C Professor Wound Up a Prisoner of Iran
Abbas Alizadeh stepped off the plane in Tehran exhausted and a bit anxious. He had been traveling for 19 hours, flying first from O’Hare to Doha, Qatar, then on ...
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Iranian Parliament Orders Surveillance On Citizens’ Private Lives
Iran's Parliament (Majles) has directed the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to monitor citizens' personal lives, as the regime’s ideology loses ground. The goal is to assess how ...
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Iran: No Headscarf, No Job for Protesting Actresses
In late October, the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Iran published a list of actresses barred from their profession for appearing in public without a headscarf. Culture ...
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Iran bans film festival over poster of actress without hijab
Iranian authorities have banned a film festival after a promotional poster showed an actress not wearing the hijab, a headcover worn by many Muslim women, the country’s state-run media ...
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