Turn AI-Assisted Farsi Into Natural Persian Writing

Two sets of rules matter here: a 2017 anti-fraud law and a 2025 ministry guide.

The 2017 law. The Law on Prevention of and Combating Fraud in the Preparation of Scientific Works, approved by the Majlis on 31 Mordad 1396 (22 August 2017), makes IranDoc's Hamanandjoo similarity check mandatory for proposals, theses and dissertations at universities, research institutes and seminaries [1]. It targets people who prepare theses, dissertations or articles for profit, as a business, for someone else to present as their own. A student who uses such work can have the degree voided, and translation and editing fall outside the offence [2].

The 2025 guide. The Ministry of Science, Research and Technology's guide to AI tools in research, dated Aban 1404 (October–November 2025), requires any AI use to be reported openly, including the tool's exact role and how you validated its output, in the acknowledgements or an AI-use statement [3]. Hidden AI use in coursework without the instructor's approval isn't permitted, and rewording someone else's work without citation is a violation even if the words and structure change [3]. Its examples treat rewriting a paragraph you wrote yourself, to improve and smooth it, as permitted, and lightly editing mostly AI-generated text before submitting it as cheating [3].

Universities add their own rules. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, for example, requires AI use in thesis writing to be reported explicitly and treats generating all or part of a thesis with AI as clear misconduct [4].

Our own detector can't judge Persian, so the sample above has no score. It rated the fully AI-written draft at only 55.6% AI, while our AI-written English control draft scored 100% [1]. The default-mode rewrite of the Persian draft then scored higher than the draft itself, at 67% [1], and in a separate run the same day, the aggressive-mode rewrite shown above scored 55.3%. We haven't yet tested human-written Persian, so we can't say how often the detector flags real writing.

Other tools don't fill the gap. Turnitin's AI detector is limited to long-form text in English, Spanish, Japanese or Modern Arabic, and it won't process a Persian paper [2]. Its Translated Matching does list Persian and Dari, but that is a similarity feature: it translates the paper into English and matches it against sources [3]. Originality.ai includes Persian in its 31-language list [4], while GPTZero leaves it out of the five languages it fully supports [5]. IranDoc describes Hamanandjoo as a similarity checker and makes no claim that it detects AI writing [6]; in July 2026, IranDoc's head said a Persian-aware method for detecting AI-generated work was hoped for in the near future [7].

Iran's science ministry accepts that such tools err: its guide says a detector's output alone can't be the definitive basis for proving a violation, and misconduct committees must weigh all the evidence and give you a chance to explain [8]. Your outlines, drafts and an honest AI-use statement count for more than any score.