Children enjoy a water fountain at the Ebrahim Park while temperature reaches 38 C (100.4 F) in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, August 1, 2023. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





An Iranian boy cool off in a downtown street during a hot and sunny day in Tehran, Iran, 01 August 2023. Iran is facing a heatwave with temperatures expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius prompting Iranian authorities to declared a two-day public holiday starting from 02 August, state media reported. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





A girl enjoys a water fountain at the Ebrahim Park while temperature reaches 38 C (100.4 F) in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, August 1, 2023. Iran announced a nationwide two-day, Wednesday and Thursday, holiday because of increasing temperatures. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Iranian women walk in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, August 5, 2023. These days, with uncovered women a common sight on Tehran streets, authorities have begun raiding companies where women employees or customers have been seen without the headscarf, or hijab. Iran's parliament is discussing a law that would increase punishments on uncovered women and the businesses they frequent. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A partial rainbow forms behind Milad tower amid a windy rainstorm in Tehran on August 7, 2023, after days of unprecedented heat in Iran's capital. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





In this photo provided by Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, a medic carries a stretcher at Shah Cheragh shrine, the scene of a gunman attack in the southern city of Shiraz, Iran, Sunday, August 13, 2023. A gunman opened fire Sunday night at a prominent shrine in southern Iran, wounding at least four people, authorities said. Information on the attack at Shah Cheragh remained unclear immediately after the shooting, with state media and semiofficial news agencies offering differing details. (Photo by Mohammadreza Dehdari, ISNA via AP Photo)





A bullet hole is seen after an attack at the Shah Cheragh Shrine in Shiraz, Iran on August 13, 2023. (Photo by Mohammadreza Dehdari/ISNA/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





30-year-old Nasrin Teymouri, Iranian stunt woman and supervisor of the first female stunt team in Iran, named Kheybar, teaches techniques of her profession to female stunt performers in Tehran, Iran on August 15, 2023. Teymouri, also an official member of the Iran Cinema House, form a team of female stunt performers in 2022 in order to encourage them to gain self-confidence to pursue action work. Teymouri trains her fellows so that female stuntmen as well as men can take part in Iranian Cinema. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A woman walks past an anti-American mural on the wall of the former U.S Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, August 19, 2023. Seventy years after a CIA-orchestrated coup toppled Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, its legacy remains contentious and complicated for the Islamic Republic as tensions stay high with the United States. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Ebrahim Raisi, second right, listens to Chief of Aviation Industries of Armed Forces Gen. Afshin Khajehfard, as Defense Minister Gen. Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani, right, listens, during a ceremony unveiling a drone called the Mohajer-10, Tuesday, August 22, 2023. Iran's Defense Ministry unveiled a drone Tuesday resembling America's armed MQ-9 Reaper, claiming that the aircraft capable of staying airborne for 24 hours and having the range to reach its archenemy Israel. (Photo by Iranian Presidency Office via AP Photo)





A foreign journalist attends a ceremony on the occasion of Iran Defence industry day, in an exhibition in the defence ministry in Tehran, Iran, 23 August 2023. Iran on 21 August unveiled a new drone, the 'Mohajer 10' with a range of 2,000 km that can fly 24 hours at an altitude of 24,000 feet, as well as some new ballistic missiles for the Iranian Armed forces. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





Iranian people walk and cool off under water sprinklers as they commemorate Arbaeen, in southern Tehran, Iran on September 6, 2023. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)





Iranian women, some without the mandatory headscarf, walk in a street in Tehran, Iran, 13 September 2023. Iranians are marking the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death which led to nationwide protests over the country's mandatory dress code (Hijab) law. Protests erupted after the death of 22-year old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, detained by morality police for not wearing the hijab properly in September 2022. Since then, a growing number of women in the country have been defying authorities by removing the headscarf. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)





Life-size cutouts depicting a crowd of spectators are placed in empty seats during the AFC Champions League group E football match between Persepolis FC and al-Nassr FC at Tehran's Azadi stadium, on September 19, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





An anti-U.S. banner is carried on a truck in an annual military parade marking anniversary of the beginning of war against Iran by former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein, in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Friday, September 22, 2023. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Members of Iran's security forces parade during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in Tehran on September 22, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi attends the annual military parade marking the Iraqi invasion in 1980, which led to an eight-year-long war (1980-1988), in Tehran, Iran on September 22, 2023. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





Children pose for a photo with a Third of Khordad air defense system in an exhibition by Iran's army and paramilitary Revolutionary Guard celebrating “Sacred Defense Week” commemorating the anniversary of the start of 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, at Baharestan Sq. in downtown Tehran, Iran, Friday, September 29, 2023. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Pilgrims pray at the holy shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth imam in Twelver Shia Islam, in the city of Mashhad, the capital of the province of Khorassan-e Razavi in northeastern Iran, on October 1, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





Pilgrims touch the holy shrine of Imam Reza in the city of Mashhad, the capital of the province of Khorassan-e Razavi in northeastern Iran, on October 1, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)