Iran just like India in the past week does not really have influence on the bitcoin economy. But one would understand that an Iranian government that is so anti-people cannot embrace bitcoin, so good for them, but by the time they wake up from their slumber, the world would have left them behind and they might have to play catch up which would be very costly

Found a suitable link: https://www.coindesk.com/iran-said-bar-banks-bitcoin-market/

This is like what the RBI in India released: banks and other financial institutions cannot work directly with bitcoin and any trades conducted using a bank to pay for bitcoin or to receive payment that came from bitcoin is prohibited, but the citizens can still hold bitcoin and there's no ban regarding that. While this may sound negative at first (well it does, obviously), still there are no further bans regarding cryptocurrency use. The government is just limiting the avenue in which illegal money could go, so there's that.

You seriously never can tell, it might really affect it. Though the population of bitcoin enthusiasts that invested in cryptocurrency in Iran might not that much,  but it can still cause a little or more shake in the price of bitcoin. We can see from what happened when bitcoin activities and restrictions happened in China and in India.  So there is every tendency that it will affect it.

you can at this point because this news is old, even when this topic was started it was rather old and as you can see from the price history now (and also by that time) this news had no effects on price whatsoever. and news like this are not known to have any effect on bitcoin when a small country with no prior affiliation with bitcoin does something to it not to mention this was not even a major thing.

They will hardly make any impact with a population of only 80,28 million people. If you just look at one of his neighbouring countries, Pakistan with 193,2 million people, you would see how insignificant they are. I personally think it is a very bad decision in view of the constant international sanctions against their country.

Bitcoin is one way for them to have a bit more financial freedom, but what else did you expect from a autocratic government?  

I think that the Iranian government is very afraid of the crypto currency because then they will lose control over the banking sphere.

Iran has small economy compared to other middle east counties, it will not affect crypto significantly, however, I am sure even though they banned it, people will find their way to buy the coin, as lots of ppl from China use VPN to buy and sell crypto.

In April 2012, the media reported on Iran's plans to disconnect from the Internet and create its own network instead. Later, the authorities denied rumors about a possible disconnection from the World Wide Web. However, work on creating an internal network continues.

At the same time, Iranian Internet users often shut down access to popular foreign resources. So, according to the BlockedInIran service, in May, Facebook, MySpace, the Russian service of creating free Narod.ru sites, some pornographic sites and other resources were not opened from Iran.

In early April, the site of the London Olympics was blocked, the logo of which was previously indignant with the Iranian authorities.

Of the 75 million people living in Iran, 36 million have access to the Internet.

another lame FUD and fake news shared by a newbie that doesnt know thats this forum is the place of an open minded crypto users. if you want to share this kind of a fake news, you should to try it on social media like a facebook or twitter, theres a lot of dumb people that interesting about your information. sorry if im little bit mad, but this kind of thread is annoying

whatever the reasons for Iran, there is a trend into making it difficult for crypto currencies to prosper. The ban is an extension of anti-laundering agency's ban passed in December. While Iran's situation is more volatile than China's, the objective is likely the same.