Society

Tehran is turning to quieter, more insidious forms of repression: cutting citizens off from their mobile phone numbers without notice or pressuring them to shut down their often popular social-media accounts.

Chelo with kebab, polo with herbs or saffron – the scent of steaming rice used to fill every Iranian home. But now, for many of the country's poorest, rising prices of Persian rice mean this beloved staple is slipping beyond their reach.

Tehran’s Design Week festival was shut down after a video from the event circulated online, Iran’s Guards-linked Fars News Agency reported on Sunday, saying the move followed a protest statement by the Basij student organization at the University of Tehran’s Fine Arts campus.

The privileged children of Iran’s ruling elite are building futures overseas that their parents have withheld from millions of Iranians for almost half a century.

Iranian families are grappling with a deepening food stress and some have been forced to eliminate core staples like red meat, chicken, fish, eggs and fruits from their baskets due to skyrocketing prices and stagnant wages.

Air pollution reached hazardous levels in large parts of Iran on Saturday, with fourteen cities in southern Khuzestan province hitting red-alert conditions and several others nearing dangerous thresholds, according to the country’s national air-quality monitoring system.

Paniz Faryousefi made history as the first woman to lead Iran's Tehran Symphony Orchestra since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conducting sold-out shows Wednesday and Thursday at Vahdat Hall despite long official gender bias in the arts.

Tehran's state-appointed Friday prayer leader said that defiance of the Islamic veil was tantamount to collaboration with Israel and the United States, underscoring tension in the clerical establishment on hijab enforcement.

At dawn on a November morning in Ahvaz, a city in Iran’s oil-rich southwest, municipal enforcers arrived at Zeytun Park to demolish a small food kiosk that had sustained one family for more than two decades.

Iran’s judiciary chief instructed prosecutors nationwide to work with security and police agencies to identify what he called “organized groups linked to foreigners” involved in “social irregularities,” escalating the state’s campaign to enforce the mandatory hijab.

Iran has lost 12,000 university professors over the past decade, a former deputy science minister said on Friday, highlighting the rapid unraveling of the country’s higher-education workforce.

Diabetes is appearing at far younger ages than before, Iran’s deputy health minister said on Thursday, estimating that about 7.5 million people nationwide now live with the disease.

Iranian families across several regions described a rapid contraction of their diets in recent weeks, portraying kitchens reduced to bread-only meals as prices rose sharply across the country as reflected in multiple messages shared with Iran International.

Iran's metro police arrested two men dressed in army air defense uniforms on Wednesday after they held up the pre-1979 Iranian flag at a Tehran station, according to Iranian media reports.

In Iran, privilege often dresses itself as virtue, with the best-known example being a former vice president’s son boasting about his “good genes”—a phrase now firmly embedded in the national lexicon.

Iranian state TV is facing backlash for criticizing a footballer and his wife as immoral even after it was mute about a scandal over the daughter of a top official's revealing wedding dress last month.

Iran’s political establishment is once again flirting changing laws to allow women to ride motorcycles even as women and girls have already spent years doing it without waiting for an official green light.

A confidential survey has found that more than nine in ten Iranians are unhappy with the country’s direction, the Tehran-based news site Rouydad24 reported on Wednesday citing an unnamed polling organization.