no its not illegal to buy but there are some laws (and the whole idea is not to deal with anything that the government has its hand in it .) however mining recently became illegal
Ah, that's what I was wondering as well--and if bitcoin ownership was illegal in Iran I would have suggested that you just forget about it.
I have not heard any thing about Iran getting serious with bitcoin or some of its kind but I guess it is pretty observable, who knows if you buy bitcoin with decentralized exchange?
And yes, it's a pain in the ass to buy bitcoin if you want to do it anonymously and have a healthy mistrust of people. You could check out the Currency Exchange section of the forum, but unless you have a reputation there aren't a lot of people willing to accept payment methods like PayPal and others. I've never bought or sold bitcoin in person, but that's something you might want to look into. Good luck in your quest, bro.
Peer to peer transaction for beginner is not that recommendable for me, even if you are old user of bitcoin it's not that recommendable especially when you are going to send it first, hell no.
For some reason I would get it if Iran wants to ban the use of bitcoin locally since there have been some sort of war so terrorist won't have enough access to buy weapons on the underground market.