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Child in trash

One man's trash is a child's treasure: The issue of child labor in Iran

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) sits above former president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Ahmadinejad launches website and Instagram account in hopeful political comeback

Dancing in Tehran

Dancing in the streets of Tehran


Iran reiterates: Rap music unwelcome in Islamic Republic

Ministry of Culture and Islamic guidance says Western music is problematic next to traditional Iranian music.

Iranian rapper

Iranian police arrested 50 women for 'un-Islamic' dress

Morality police detain women in boots and leggings.

Iranian women wearing Western-style clothing‏

Iranian official: The fight against satellite TV is more important than obtaining nuclear weapons

The regime has been threatening and fining those who own satellite dishes and then gathering and destroying those dishes publicly.

Iranian authorities confiscate television satellites

A snapshot of Christmas in Iran

Iran's Christian Armenian minority is storming the gift shops in Tehran, buying them out of all their ornaments, Santa figures and pine trees to hang in their stores and homes.

Christmas in Iran

Execution rate accelerates in Iran under Rouhani

The five main reasons for death sentences in Iran are heresy, homosexuality, rape, murder and armed struggle.

Iranian Judiciary officials prepare to hang convicted murderer Hashem

Turmoil in Iran over unmarried couples

Khamenei's chief secretary lashes out against cohabitation, or "white marriage," calling on Iranians to "fix their immoral ways."

Iranian couple holds hands

Iranian Jews gather in Yazd for rituals

The Iranian Jewish community came together on November 20 for a special pilgrimage.

Iranian jews pray in the Iranian city of Yazd, November 2014.

Iranian Police: 200,000 people in the country are alcoholics

Selling, buying and consuming alcohol in the Islamic Republic is strictly forbidden and can come with a penalty of 80 lashes.

A smuggler poses with a bottle of wine during an alcohol smuggling operation to Iran

Apple scouts Tehran location for store, Iranian reports claim

The future possibility of easing sanctions has led to several direct meetings between Iranian representatives and multinational companies.

Is Apple coming to Rouhani's Iran? (illustrative photo)

Why are Iranian men posting photos of themselves as women?

Web pages making fun of laws restricting women in Iran go viral on social media.