Iranians should run VPN services for Bitcoins, so we can all get Iranian IP addresses to run Bitcoin nodes on.
Then the Iranian Bitcoin scene will look much bigger than it is - and some Journalist will hype it.. and then.. I dunno.. we all get thrown in jail or something.
I would get an Iranian VPN as long as I could connect to a second vpn through the Iranian one to avoid the censorship. I would trust the Iranian VPN provider to not hand over my data to the US government more than anyone else.
That's an aspect I hadn't considered.
In all seriousness - selling of digital services seems the most viable way for Iranians to earn BTC at this point.
I imagine it'd be hard to get FPGA or ASIC mining gear into Iran... and if there are any GPU miners there, they're surely not going to get much from now on anyway.