Book censorship in Iran
Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran states regarding freedom of expression: "the press is free to express their opinion, unless it is against the foundation of Islam or rights of the people, and the law will explain the details"..
The details have been explained, not in legislation of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, but in an act issued by the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, which names the subjects that "do not deserve to be published". For example: Renouncing the fundamentals of religion; promoting corruption; inviting the society to riot against Iran; promoting the ideas of terrorist and illegal groups and corrupted sects; defending monarchy; stimulating conflicts between the various ethnic or religious groups ; creating problems in the unity of the society and the country; mocking and weakening the national pride and nationalistic spirit, and creating an atmosphere of losing national values to the culture and civilization of western or eastern colonizing systems.
Books banned in Iran
| Title | Author | Type of literature | References and notes |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | novel | |
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | non-fiction | |
| The Gods Laugh on Mondays | Reza Khoshnazar | novel | |
| The Monkey Whose Owner Had Died | Sadeq Chubak | short stories | |
| The Patient Stone | Sadeq Chubak | short stories | |
| The Mourners of Bayal | Gholam-Hossein Saedi | short stories | |
| Dandyl | Gholam-Hossein Saedi | short stories | |
| Fear and Chills | Gholam-Hossein Saedi | short stories | |
| The Ball | Gholam-Hossein Saedi | short stories | |
| Censoring an Iranian Love Story | Shahriar Mandanipour | novel | |
| Her Eyes | Bozorg Alavi | novel | |
| A Tombstone on a Grave | Jalal Al-e-Ahmad | novel | |
| Mourning for Qasem | Amir Hossein Cheheltan | novel | |
| The Man Lost in Dust | Nosrat Rahmani | poetry | |
| Complete Poems of Ahmad Shamlu | Ahmad Shamlu | poetry | |
| A Girl with a Silver String | Jamal Mirsadeqi | novel | |
| Memories of My Melancholy Whores | Gabriel García Márquez | translated into Persian by Kaveh Mirabasi | |
| Scorpion on the Railroad Stairways of Andimeshk, or This Train is Bleeding Sir! | Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar | novel | |
| The Ceremonies of Impatience | Yaghub Yadali | short stories | |
| Social History of Iran | Morteza Ravandi | ||
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | novel | Translated by Hossin Shahrabi |
| The Blind Owl | Sadeq Hedayat | novel | |
| Gay Relations in Iranian Literature | Sirus Shamisa | literary essay | |
| The Veiled Women and the Armoured Elite | Fatemeh Marnisi | history | |
| The Zahir | Paulo Coelho | Translated by Arash Hejazi | |
| The Year Zero | Ardalan Sarafraz | novel | |
| The Shout of No Shout" | Vida Hajebi | ||
| Lessons to Avoid AIDS | |||
| Poverty and Adultery | Masood Dehnamaki | ||
| Short Stories | Sadeq Hedayat | ||
| Opium | Shiva Arastooi | short stories | |
| The Book of Jinn | Houshang Golshiri | novel, | |
| He Learned from Satan and Burnt It | Farkhondeh Aghaii | novel | |
| Women without Men | Shahrnoosh Parsipour | novel | |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | Nikos Kazantzakis | ||
| Sadeq Hedayat | |||
| Cockcrow | Ebrahim Golestan | short stories | خروس، |
| The Social Contract or Principles of Political Rights | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| Towards Destiny | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | ||
| Touba and the Meaning of Night'' | Shahrnush Parsipur | novel | |
| The Inferno | Dante Alighieri | novel | - |