In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, October 1, 2023. The mysterious injury suffered by Geravand not wearing a headscarf while boarding a Metro train in Iran's capital has reignited anger just after the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests it sparked. (Photo by Iranian state television/AP Photo)





“Aqsa Flood” banners and giant anti-Israel banners are hanged on buildings in support of Hamas and Palestinian resistance as clashes continue between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups at Valiasr Street and Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran on October 09, 2023. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Iranian Basij paramilitary force members, in the style of the Palestinian and Lebanese militants, play the detention of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a pro-Palestinian rally after the Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, Friday, October 13, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





An Iranian woman walks past a mural in “Palestine Square”, in Tehran, Iran, 17 October 2023. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 17 October 2023 warned Israel to stop the attack on Gaza, saying 'if the crimes continue, no one will be able to stop the Muslims and the Resistance forces'. Thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have died since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October 2023, leading to Israeli retaliation strikes on the Palestinian enclave. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





An Iranian demonstrator holds an anti-Israeli placard during a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, marking 44th anniversary of the seizure of the embassy by militant Iranian students, Saturday, November 4, 2023. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Iranian school girls show their hands with pro-government slogans and an anti-Israeli slogan which reads in Farsi: “Death to Israel”, during a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, marking 44th anniversary of the seizure of the embassy by militant Iranian students, Saturday, November 4, 2023. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





An Iranian woman mourns over a mock dead body, displayed in tribute to the children who died amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, during an event in solidarity with the Palestinian people, held at the Palestine square, in Tehran, Iran, 13 November 2023. Thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have died since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October, and the Israeli strikes on the Palestinian enclave which followed it. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





A bird flies above Tehran amid a thick layer of smog engulfing the city on November 14, 2023, as Iranian authorities urged young schoolchildren and many civil servants in the capital to stay at home due to a spike in air pollution levels. Tehran, a city of around nine million people, suffers from chronic air pollution and regularly ranks among the world's most polluted cities. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





Iranian women hold placards during a march by members of Iranian premilitary forces (Basij) to show their solidarity with Gaza people, in Tehran, Iran, 24 November 2023. Thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have died since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October, and the Israeli strikes on the Palestinian enclave which followed it. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





Iranians shop at the Tehran Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran, 30 November 2023.Tehran's Grand Bazaar, an important place of commerce and an attraction for both tourists and locals, extends for about 10 km in length with over 180 stores, mosques, guest houses, and banks. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, claims to show a rocket with a capsule carrying animals is launched from an undisclosed location into orbit, Iran. Iran said Wednesday it sent a capsule into orbit carrying animals as it prepares for human missions in coming years. (Photo by Iranian Defense Ministry via AP Photo)





An elderly Iranian woman holds a picture of her son who went missing in the Iran-Iraq war during a ceremony marking the return of remains of Iranian soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq war, in Tehran, Iran on December 17, 2023. According to the IRNA News Agency, some 110 bodies of soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq war that lasted from 1980 to 1988 were discovered recently in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians are thought to have been either killed or went missing during the conflict, with some of their bodies found in recent years. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





People wait at a gas station in Tehran on December 18, 2023 as fuel distribution across 60 percent of Iran's gas stations is disrupted. The disruption is due to a “possible sabotage”, state media reported. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





An Iranian woman takes a photo of her child in front of a Christmas shop in Tehran, Iran on December 25, 2023. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





People gather for the funeral ceremony of senior adviser for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Sayyed Razi Mousavi, who was killed in an Israeli air strike outside the Syrian capital Damascus, in Tehran, Iran on December 28, 2023. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





People stay next to destroyed cars after an explosion in Kerman, Iran, Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Iran says bomb blasts at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 103 people and wounded 188 others. (Photo by Tasnim News Agency via AP Photo)





People stay next to an injured man after an explosion in Kerman, Iran, Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Explosions at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 73 people and wounded over 170 others, state-run media in Iran reported Wednesday. (Photo by Mahdi Karbakhsh Ravari/AP Photo)





A woman holds up a poster of the late Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in 2020 in Iraq, during a commemoration for him at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Two bombs exploded Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said, as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Families of victims of the explosions gather at the courtyard of a hospital in the city of Kerman, about 510 miles (820 kilometres) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Two bombs exploded Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said, as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Sare Tajalli, ISNA via AP Photo)





A woman holds a child as people gather for the funeral of Sadegh Omidzadeh and Mohammad-Amin Samadi, members of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), in Tehran, Iran, on January 22, 2024. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)