A woman wearing protective face mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus walks past an advertisement of skin care products in southern Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Iran on Tuesday broke another record in the country's daily new coronavirus cases, even as Tehran and its surroundings went into lockdown, a week-long measure imposed amid another surge in the pandemic. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A woman wearing protective face mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus walks on a sidewalk in southern Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





People light candles amid scorching summer heat as power outage crisis hit Tehran, Iran on July 12, 2021. Iran battling severe power crisis, affecting peopleâs lives and businesses. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A drone photo shows that people enjoy at the Lake Urmia, one of the biggest saltwater lakes in the world located in the northwest of Iran, as recovering works continue due to drought affecting the whole country and putting the lake in danger of drying up again in Urmia, Iran on July 06, 2021. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





People wearing protective face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus drive on a street in central Tehran, Iran, Sunday, August 8, 2021. Iranians are suffering through yet another surge in the coronavirus pandemic – their country's worst yet – and anger is growing at images of vaccinated Westerners without face masks on the internet or on TV while they remain unable to get the shots. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A man wearing protective face mask and shield to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus crosses a street in central Tehran, Iran, Sunday, August 8, 2021. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





People leave after receiving their Covid-19 vaccines at a vaccination center in Iran Mall shopping center in Tehran, Iran, Monday, August 9, 2021. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A girl wearing a protective face mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus looks through the sunroof of her family car on a street in central Tehran, Iran, Sunday, August 8, 2021. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Iranians wait to receive a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as cases spike, in a vaccination center in Tehran, Iran on August 9, 2021. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





Women form a human chain at the uranium conversion facility, in support of Iran’s nuclear programme in Isfahan, Iran on August 16, 2021. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A view of a closed mall in Tajrish old bazaar in Tehran, Iran, 16 August 2021. Iranian authorities began a one-week lockdown, from 16 August until 21 August 2021, to slow the spread of the Covid-19 and Delta variant in Iran as the country faces a fifth wave of the coronavirus crisis. According to the Iranian health ministry, Iran recorded its highest COVID-19 death toll by reporting 655 victims in the past 24 hours. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





Iranian people burn a tent as they re-enact a scene from the 7th century battle of Kerbala during a ceremony marking Ashura, in Tehran, Iran on August 19, 2021. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





A handout picture made available by the Iranian Red Crescent on August 19, 2021, shows an Iranian soldier distributing boxes of juice to Afghan refugees gathered at the Iran-Afghanistan border between Afghanistan and the southeastern Iranian Sistan and Baluchestan province, as they try to enter the Islamic republic following the takeover of their country by the Taliban earlier this week. Tens of thousands of people have tried to flee Afghanistan since the hardline Islamist militants swept into the capital on August 15, completing a stunning rout of government forces after a two decade insurgency. (Photo by Mohammad Javadzadeh/Iranian Red Crescent/AFP Photo)





A woman enters a vaccination center in Tehran, Iran on September 21, 2021. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)





Covid-19 patient Marhamat Asadi which is in medically induced coma is tended by nurses Fatemeh Najmeh Sadeghi, left, and Fereshteh Babakhanlou at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, September 15, 2021. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Bodies of a Covid-19 victims are shrouded and prepared to transfer for burial at Behesht-e-Masoumeh cemetery just outside the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, September 15, 2021. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A vendor waits for customers in the Tajrish traditional bazaar in northern Tehran, Iran, Saturday, September 25, 2021. As U.S. sanctions strangle Iran's economy, record inflation is causing stunned shoppers in the country to cut meat and dairy from their diets and to purchase less each month. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Iranian shopkeeper waits for customers at the gate of his store in north Tehran, Iran, Saturday, September 25, 2021. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A woman shops in a supermarket in north Tehran, Iran, Saturday, September 25, 2021. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Iranian woman shops in the Tajrish traditional bazaar in northern Tehran, Iran, Saturday, September 25, 2021. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)