Members of Tehran's City Council had voted to rename Bisotoun Street after the slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. However, following a strong backlash, a member of the Council’s presiding board announced that the street’s name would remain unchanged.

Bisotoun is the name of a mountain in western Iran, home to ancient inscriptions from pre-Islamic times. It is also the setting for the love story of Farhad and Shirin in the poems of Persian poet Nezami.