Despite mounting pressure from critics and public opinion to secure Iran's share in a joint gas field with Kuwait, Iranian officials remained silent, stepping back from previous claims they had.
After visiting Oman, Qatar and Kuwait, Iran's foreign minister, ahead of a high-ranking delegation, held talks with politicians and diplomats in the United Arab Emirates.
Following attacks and restrictions on Iran's Mujahideen opposition group activities in Europe, Iranian dissidents and pro-establishment outlets hint at an unwritten deal between Iran and the EU to control anti-government exiled groups
Iranians took to social media and organised protests outside the country to reject the authorities' claims against those blinded during last year's protests.
The appointment of Iran’s ambassador to the UN as chair of this year's Human Rights Council Social Forum sparked anger among Iranian opposed to the government, while the establishment's supporters welcomed the move.
Iranian journalists launched a campaign demanding that the judiciary handle cases of journalists arrested in relation to last year's protests in open courts.
Iran, which has the second-highest number of executions in the world, speeds up sending drug and murder-related prisoners to the gallows as a strategy to increase pressure on the anti-establishment civil movement.
Amid a harsh crackdown against women defying the strict Islamic Sharia Law regarding women's outfits, Iran's police chief demonstrated severe intolerance towards media coverage of the police's campaign to implement the hijab law.
A video reconstructed the details of a raid on students who protested on the Sharif University campus in Tehran on 22 October, during the days when anti-establishment demonstrations engulfed all Iranian cities.
