This picture taken on Friday, August 26, 2016, shows Iranians lying beside Urmia Lake with their bodies covered with salt near Urmia, North-western Iran. Hopes for survival of Urmia salt lake have been revived after more rains boosted a government program aimed at preserving the almost dried up water body. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A woman spends her time outdoors to observe the ancient festival of Sizdeh Bedar, an annual public picnic day on the 13th day of the Iranian new year, at the Tochal mountainous area northern Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April, 2, 2017. Sizdeh Bedar, which comes from the Farsi words for “thirteen” and “day out”, is a legacy from Iran's pre-Islamic past that hard-liners in the Islamic Republic never managed to erase from calendars. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A man stands in the light of a geometric window in a mosque, taken in Iran, November 2016. A photographer spent a month exploring Iran to understand the science and mathematics behind divine beauty of Islamic buildings. After reading an article about the use of specific ratios and geometry in Persian architecture, Massimo Rumi was fixated on the idea of travelling from his home country of Italy to Iran. Massimo said: “I was fascinated by the spirituality and wisdom behind it”. The article was talking about the use of specific ratios, found in nature in the design of life forms, to reflect “divine beauty” in the Islamic building. Massimo took his trip in November 2016 and only intended it to be 10 days long, however the ease of travel in Iran and friendliness of the locals, made him choose to stay longer. (Photo by Massimo Rumi/Barcroft Images)





An Iranian woman adjusts her head scarf while crossing a street in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Tehran police chief Gen. Hossein Sajedinia recently announced his department had deployed 7,000 male and female officers for a new plainclothes division – the largest such undercover assignment in memory. Critics fear the unit's main focus will be enforcing the government-mandated Islamic dress code, which requires women be modestly covered from head to toe. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Iranian youngsters play music at a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Iranian women make their way along a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





An Iranian woman walks past a mural in a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Iranians walk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A money changer waits for customers near Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Iran May 2, 2016. (Photo by Marius Bosch/Reuters)





The minarets and clock tower of the Imam Khomeini mosque are pictured near Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Iran May 2, 2016. (Photo by Marius Bosch/Reuters)





A man and a woman sit near the Imam Khomeini mosque, near Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Iran May 2, 2016. (Photo by Marius Bosch/Reuters)





A shopkeeper helps a woman in a shop selling nuts near Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Iran May 2, 2016. (Photo by Marius Bosch/Reuters)





A view shows Tehran's skyline with snow-covered mountains in the background, Iran May 2, 2016. (Photo by Marius Bosch/Reuters)





A man walks near the Imam Khomeini mosque, that is renovated, in Tehran Iran May 2, 2016. (Photo by Marius Bosch/Reuters)





An Iranian women walks past a painting in Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran May 3, 2016. (Photo by Marius Bosch/Reuters)





A shopkeeper preparing to welcome new customers dusts his stock of buttons in Tehran's Grand bazaar, Iran May 3, 2016. (Photo by Marius Bosch/Reuters)





A view shows Tehran's skyline at night with the Milad tower, the sixth tallest tower in the world, Iran May 3, 2016. (Photo by Marius Bosch/Reuters)





An Iranian woman prays at the graves of unknown soldiers who were killed during 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 20, 2017, on the eve of the Iranian New Year, or Nowruz. Nowruz which means “New Day” in Persian, marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year on the Iranian calendar, which occurs exactly on the Spring Equinox. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Iranian and Afghan girls gather at the Emam Hasan Mojtaba school in Kerman, Iran, October 23, 2016. (Photo by Gabriela Baczynska/Reuters)





An Iranian woman makes handmade carpet in a workroom of the Toranj o Mehrab handmade carpet factory in the city of Kashan, central Iran, 05 December 2016. Media reported that Iranian carpet industry seeks revival with lifting the sanctions. Iran's famed carpet weavers are busy at work following the country's historic nuclear deal with world powers, anticipating a boost in exports as sanctions are set to be lifted. Iranian officials expected the Iranian economy to grow on an average of eight percent over the coming five years following the lifting of sanctions against Iran which is now in a big doubt after Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election and threating scraping nuclear deal. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)





This picture taken on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, shows veiled Iranian women taking part in a mourning ceremony for Ashoura, as they cover their faces symbolically, in the city of Khorramabad, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. Shiites mark Ashoura, the tenth day of the Muslim month of Muharram, to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, a grandson of Prophet Muhammad and one of Shiite Islam's most beloved saints, during the 7th century Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





In this picture taken on April 8, 2015, Iranians walk along the Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge in Tehran, Iran. A children’s center in China, the bridge in Iran and a park in Denmark are among the six winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.The winners were announced on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, in the historic Al-Jahili fort in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. The awards are handed out once every three years and are meant to celebrate architecture that serves and embraces Muslim culture. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Iranian man rides a decorated bicycle in Imam Hussein Square, central Tehran, Iran, Sunday, February 28, 2016. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A clergyman make his way in a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, February 28, 2016. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Iranians shop in a market in central Tehran, Iran, Sunday, February 28, 2016. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)