An Iranian girl wearing a costume inspired in the fictional folklore character Hajji Firuz, dances in Tehran on March 17, 2021 as Iranians prepare to celebrate Noruz, the Iranian New Year. Noruz, “new day” in Persian, is the New Year festivity celebrated in Iran as well as in Afghanistan and Kurdish regions in several countries. It begins with the spring equinox and symbolises rebirth. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)

Iranian bodybuilder Sharareh Nobahari, 30, assists her fitness trainees at a gym in Tehran, Iran on September 20, 2019. (Photo by Nazanin Tabatabaee/Reuters)

Iranian women sit in a bus in the capital Tehran on June 25, 2019. Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said today that new US sanctions against senior Iranian officials including top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif showed Washington is “lying” about an offer to negotiate. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)

Iranian skiers rest at the Dizin ski resort, northwest of Tehran January 15, 2016. (Photo by Raheb Homavandi/Reuters/TIMA)

An Iranian girl walks at the Tochal ski resort, in north of Tehran, Iran on December 12, 2019. (Photo by Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA via Reuters)

Iranians wearing face masks against the Covid-19 coronavirus attends Laylat al-Qadr prayers, one of the holiest nights during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, outside a mosque in the Tehran, on May 13, 2020. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)

Iranian visitors practice shooting with shooting simulators made in Iran at a police shooting simulation booth at the 19th International Police Security and Safety Equipment Exhibition (IPAS 2022) at the grand Mosalla mosque in Tehran, Iran, on October 20, 2022. (Photo by Rouzbeh Fouladi/Avalon)

Iranian Arabs who are members of the paramilitary Basij force march in a military parade marking the 35th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, September 22, 2015. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)