Iranians have found a way to complain about prices that no prosecutor can touch: they film themselves dancing beside the groceries, insist they are delighted, and explain that if they were not, they would be executed.
Signs of renewed street-level hijab enforcement have emerged in Tehran and other parts of Iran, including footage of women warning passersby over their clothing, though it remains unclear whether it represents an organized return of hijab patrols.
Sexual transmission accounted for about 65% of newly identified HIV cases in Iran last year, replacing injecting drug use as the main route of new infections as diagnoses among women increased, a leading HIV researcher said on Thursday.
Iran faces shortages of about 800 medicines, including dozens considered vital, as currency constraints and import disruptions threaten to drive some drug costs as much as threefold, Iranian local media reported on Thursday.
Growing numbers of middle-aged women are appearing at drug-use sites in Tehran as economic hardship and homelessness push some from previously stable lives into environments rife with addiction and violence, Iran’s Shargh newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The Islamic Republic moved beliefs about the unseen from the margins of society to the center of power, and used oil money to give them institutions, budgets and a propaganda apparatus, so that its rulers could draw legitimacy from a source no citizen can question.
A major Tehran theater production has dropped a prominent actor after his support for Palestine triggered fierce backlash, exposing a rare reversal where a stance strongly backed by the Islamic Republic appears to have become a liability with the public.
Iranians pushed back against a senior government official questioning cheap gasoline, contrasting fuel subsidies with low wages and soaring living costs as the US dollar traded around a historic 2.1 million rials on Monday.
Forty-four percent of respondents to an Iran International Instagram poll said they would not buy a home in Iran even if they could afford one, with comments citing economic insecurity, emigration plans and concerns about keeping their wealth in the country.
Iranians described cancelled language tests, soaring costs, visa hurdles and internet restrictions as obstacles increasingly putting study abroad beyond reach, in messages sent to Iran International following new US sanctions.
Iranian photographer Maryam Saeedpoor has been named Fine Art Photographer of the Year at the 2026 International Photography Awards for her wartime series “Painful hug,” placing her among the finalists for the competition’s top professional prize.
Nine in 10 respondents to an Iran International Instagram poll said they did not want to marry or have children under Iran’s economic, social and political conditions, according to results gathered from about 100,000 participants.
Iranians described deepening financial hardship and questioned whether economic pressure can change government policy as the dollar hit a historic 2 million rials, extending the currency's sharp decline on Sunday.
Messages sent to Iran International after the death of its 37-year-old presenter Farahnaz Espad have mixed personal tributes with reflections on exile, repression and hopes for political change among Iranians at home and abroad.
A campaign by pro-establishment religious groups in Iran is asking people to help fund the ritual slaughter of 10,000 sheep as a religious offering for Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s health, with each animal priced at 250 million rials, or about $132.
An Iranian film made in defiance of the censors reached YouTube last week, and the argument it started was not the one its makers might have expected: many viewers are asking not whether Bidad goes too far, but whether it goes far enough for the country it depicts.
Seven months after the January massacre, Iranians answering an Iran International call-out describe lives still bent around it: sleep and nerves that never recovered, friendships remade or broken, politics hardened, and a future they struggle to picture.
A plan to sell petrol at a much higher “refinery cost” rate in southern Kerman province was halted hours before it was due to begin, the provincial fuel distribution company said on Thursday.
Tehran's municipality is tearing up the cobblestones of the capital's historic pedestrian zones and laying asphalt, a change officials call traffic management and that architects and urban sociologists read as something older: the redesign of a city to make protest harder.
More than 152,000 people with severe disabilities remain on a waiting list for nursing care payments because of insufficient funding, the rehabilitation deputy of Iran’s State Welfare Organization said on Wednesday.
Canada says immigration applications are assessed individually in response to cases of Iranians who completed mandatory military service with the Revolutionary Guards receiving letters warning they could be deemed inadmissible on security grounds.
The child understands every word her grandmother says in Persian. She answers in English. She can ask what's for dinner in her parents' language, but not describe her anxiety, her love or her future in it. She calls herself Iranian. Persian is no longer the language of her life.