[brudgers]

General advice:

+ As a guest it is rude to behave in ways you know your hosts consider impolite.

+ As a matter of personal safety, unwarranted risks are unwarranted.

Buying a cheap phone in Iran and enjoying your bucket list trip is the simplest thing that might work. Why try to fuck with a nation-state. Good luck.

[firefax]

>Why try to fuck with a nation-state.

Because they shoot protesters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan

Cross that line, the gloves come off.

[brudgers]

I guess that could be the basis for a vacation, but I doubt the OP is going to move that needle with a burner phone and a VPN.

[firefax]

It speaks volumes that simply circumventing a firewall is "fucking with" a regime.

I'm guessing Iran is similar to China (restrictions on GPS software etc).

They may be simply trying to efficiently vacation.

Having a way to get information out if mistreated can make mistreatment simply not happen.

The Persian people are very friendly, but they're held hostage by a lunatic fringe.

When you blame the user for circumventing as firewall, it's akin to blaming a battered woman for "instigating" her man.

Mature authoritarian regimes do things old fashioned -- they put a minder on you, and keep an eye out.

If Iran is too poor or stupid to take that approach, then maybe it's a good thing if a single crack in their firewall brings humpty dumpty tumbling down.

[brudgers]

efficiently vacation

That’s an oxymoron.

[firefax]

Try taking a vacation using only paper maps -- no looking up cool restaurants, no directions etc.

You get a lot more done if you can use a smart device.