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Visitors dancing at Margoon spring. Screen grab from the video below.

Dancing video forces closure of popular tourist site in Iran

Maedeh Hojabri in one of her most recent videos.

Iranian Instagram star arrested for dancing in her videos

Conservative Iranian imams break tradition by speaking out against a series of rapes

Iranian women join forces with imams after series of rapes

A female fan in the Azadi stadium in Tehran on June 20, 2018.

'I cried when I saw the pitch,' say Iranian women finally allowed in stadium

This poster, which is meant to show Iranians’ support for their national football team, was on display in one of the main squares in Tehran. However, there isn’t a single woman on the entire poster.

In Iran, a World Cup poster devoid of female fans attracts mockery

Image: AFC

Iranian fans frustrated by lack of coverage of women's futsal

An actor pretending to be an IS group member.

Shock as actors dressed as IS fighters ‘attack’ mall in Iran

Images showing the bodies of dozens of horses apparently killed by Iranian border guards have been circulating on social media in Iran since May 1, 2018. Iranian media say the photos and videos were taken in the West of the country near the border with Ira

Iran border guards blamed for ‘barbaric’ horse massacres

A Tehran court on April 30 ordered service providers to block access to the popular messaging app Telegram (left). Users with access via VPNs (virtual private networks) were still able to use the app (right).

Getting around Iran’s Telegram ban

Screengrab from the video of a woman being harassed by Iran's morality police in a Tehran park on 18 April 2018.

Iran’s morality police assault a woman for not wearing her hijab properly

Several Israeli news sites published a satellite photograph that they said showed an Iranian military airfield inside Syria

An Iranian air base inside Syria? No - Israeli media use wrong photo

Iran deems wolf teats on AS Roma’s logo too risqué for TV

Moments before the lights went out during a concert in Kalameh.

An Iranian cleric tries to stop a concert, but fans boo him offstage

Poachers create entire lakes to trap birds.

Bird poachers in Iran create artificial lakes to ensnare their prey

Screen grab from the video below.

The 'un-Islamic' girls' dance that shocked Iranian hardliners

Drivers in the Iranian capital use a bewildering array of techniques to block detection by the city’s 600 traffic cameras.

'Human shields' help outsmart Iran's traffic cameras

Police weld a pointy top to Iranian women's symbolic protest spot

Tehran police’s plan to discourage veil protesters backfires

On the left, Vida Movahedi; on the right, Narges Hosseini.

Women boldly protest hijab law in Iran’s streets

Advertisements for "virginity pills" published on Instagram and Telegram.

Virginity pills and surgery: Iran’s fake hymen industry

Alireza Manani was featured in an Iranian state TV report that he criticised for misrepresenting his views on the country's social media ban.

Iran state TV slammed for editing man-on-the-street interviews

These Iranian women wore fake beards to sneak into stadiums to attend men's football matches.

Iranian women don beards and makeup to sneak into football matches

The 'karate woman' on the left is actually a still from a film; the image of a protest top-right was taken in Bahrain in 2011; and the boy bottom-right published this video to prove that he wasn't dead, as was reported in some outlets.

Iran's karate woman and the boy who's still alive: Fake images in Iran's protests

Protest in Gorgan, in the north of Iran, on December 30.

Iran: “This is nothing like 2009. This is a protest by hungry people”

Photos from stories on The Observers website between 2008 and 2012.

THE OBSERVERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY

Ten amateur images that marked the past decade (1)

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