Yesterday, a law was approved in parliament that, according to it,

emailing a professor and a foreign university is a crime; applying is a crime; having funding is a crime; embassy appointment time is a crime; writing a recommendation for a student is a crime; studying and working abroad is a crime; a degree from a foreign university is a crime; citing foreign articles is a crime; sending articles to foreign conferences and journals is a crime

And all of these must be approved by the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence.

Those who are looking for the source can search for the bill to counter the penetration of foreigners.

Students and researchers can only correspond with the outside from the list introduced by the Ministry of Intelligence. For example, you basically can’t do any research work anymore with Europe and the United States.

Its design is very broad. It has 33 articles—only one of them is related to students. In general, it’s meant for us to become like North Korea.