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Iraqi activists go underground after wave of attacks by pro-Iran militias

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Some Iranian children are literally climbing mountains to access online school

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How sheep smuggling has become a lucrative yet dangerous business on the Iran-Iraq border

A video posted online on October 28 shows four young people in an SUV chasing a panicked wild goat across a desert landscape. (Screengrabs)

Iranians outraged after safari tour group chases wild goat to death

People have been sharing this video online, claiming it shows Iranian tourists watching exchanges of gunfire between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In reality, the video was filmed in Russia back in 2019.

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No, Iranian tourists didn't go to watch a skirmish between Armenia and Azerbaijan

After this video was shared online, many Iranian users began to call Mehrdad Sepehri the 'Iranian George Floyd' on social media.

Another video of police violence in the Islamic Republic: ‘Iran’s George Floyd’

Iranian police expose suspected criminals in public and humiliate them. (Screengrab of videos shared by eyewitnesses.)

How Iranian police publicly shame suspected criminals

Nearly every day, crowds gather in front of currency exchange offices in Iran.

Violence, suicide and addiction: an unprecedented economic crisis plunges Iranian society into chaos

This image shows a rap battle between two young rappers in Tehran in 2019.

Iran’s rap battles: youth with a 'pure love' for rap

Left, the 2020 edition of the math textbook where girls have been removed. Right, the 2019 of textbook before girls were removed.

Iranian publishers remove images of girls from math textbook, parents add them back

Left: Amirhamzeh, a 7-year-old resident of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province, lost his left hand after a crocodile attack on Aug. 11. Right: A marsh crocodile photographed at a local water source by villagers in Sistan and Baluchistan.

Iran: 7-year-old boy is latest child to lose arm to crocodile while fetching water

A photo posted by an Iranian fisherman shows a Chinese trawler in Iranian territorial waters.

In Iran, Chinese trawlers are damaging marine ecosystems and the livelihood of local fishermen

Supporters of the Iranian regime circulate fake video to sway public opinion against activists sentenced to death

Pro-regime Iranians circulate fake video to promote the death sentence for three activists

In a hospital in Mashhad (in the northeast), a city that has been particularly affected by the second wave.

As a second wave of Covid-19 sweeps Iran, “people aren’t respecting social distancing at all” (2/2)

Many hospitals in Iran no longer have enough beds for Covid-19 patients and have started treating them in car parks. This photo was taken on July 6 in Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran. (Photo: Mohammad Masoumian.)

Second wave of Covid-19 sweeps Iran, 'affecting the elderly, young and children' (1/2)

Screengrabs from the video of the accident that occurred in early June at the border between Iran and Afghanistan.

Death of Afghan migrants in burning car after police chase in Iran sparks fury

One of the photos published by parkour star Alireza Japalaghi on his Instagram account.

Iranian parkour star arrested for racy kiss photos

A video that circulated widely on social media after a friendly fire incident by the Iranian navy May 10, 2020 in fact shows a naval exercise in Norway in 2013.

No, this video does not show a friendly fire incident by the Iranian navy

Amateur videos circulating on social media in Afghanistan show bodies of Afghan migrants drowned in the Harirud river on the border with Iran on May 1, 2020. Survivors say they were forced into the river by Iranian border guards.

Investigation: videos reveal location of mass drowning on Iran-Afghan border

Images of poultry farmers destroying stocks of chicks caused controversy on social networks in Iran. One farmer told the France 24 Observers his colleagues have no other choice, because the COVID-19 pandemic has hit demand and caused feed prices to rise.

Iranian poultry farmers bury thousands of chicks alive as Covid-19 hits demand

Iranian users publish photos of poorly-equipped schools in Iran, asking how online learning is possible in regions without internet or even TV.

In Iran, poverty and lack of internet make distance learning impossible

Images of women doing the splits during a challenge organised by a supermarket chain in Iran.

Supermarket’s 'splits challenge' too sexy for Iranian authorities

Left: Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki during an Instagram broadcast showed a photo of what he said was an Iranian nurse. Right: The photo in fact showed Amanda Ramalho, a Brazilian nurse who posts on Instagram.

Iran health minister's photo of heroic Iranian nurse actually comes from Brazil

Images circulating on social media in Iran show riots and prison breaks at prisons in Tabriz (left), Ahvaz (centre) and Saqqez (right).

No water, no soap and crowded cells: COVID-19 fears spark riots in Iran’s prisons

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