Customers buy flowers to celebrate the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, meaning “New Day” in northern Tajrish Square, Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Performers play music welcoming Persian New Year, or Nowruz, meaning “New Day” in northern Tajrish Square, Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





People fly a wishing lantern ahead of the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, meaning “New Day” in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 15, 2021. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A clergyman looks through binoculars for the new moon that signals the start of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the Imam Ali observatory about 28 miles (45 kilometers) outside the holy city of Qom, south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Muslims around the world are observing Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, where they refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and sеx from dawn to dusk. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A woman prays at the grave of an unknown soldier who was killed during 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, at the shrine of Saint Saleh in northern Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Wearing protective face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a man rides his bicycle and a woman crosses a street in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 5, 2021. Iran's capital is once again under a code red status, the highest level of restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus as the country struggles with a new surge in daily deaths. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Female car detailer Maryam Roohani polishes a car as her trainee Farahnaz Deravi watches, at a detailing shop in Tehran, Iran, April 18, 2021. The auto industry remains male-dominated around the world, let alone in the tradition-bound Islamic Republic. Still Iranian women, especially in the cities, have made inroads over the years. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





An Iranian man poses for a photo with Nowruz-themed decorations, ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran, Iran on March 17, 2021. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





People dance at the Tajrish Bazaar, ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran, Iran on March 17, 2021. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





An Iranian woman paints a Nowruz-themed decoration, ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran, Iran on March 17, 2021. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





An Iranian girls a bag of goldfish ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran, Iran on March 17, 2021. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





An Iranian man plays an instrument ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran, Iran on March 17, 2021. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





A cleric walks past a closed shop of Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Iran, Saturday, April 10, 2021. Iran on Saturday imposed partial lockdown on businesses in major shopping centers as well as intercity travels through personal cars in major cities including capital Tehran as it struggles with the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in the Mideast region. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A heart-shaped balloon and a bouquet of roses adorn the bed of a man who died from COVID-19 at the ICU unit of the Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 18, 2021. After facing criticism for downplaying the virus last year, authorities have put partial lockdowns and other measures in place to try and slow the coronavirus’ spread, as Iran faces what looks like its worst wave of the coronavirus pandemic yet. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A nurse tends to a patient affected by the COVID-19 virus at the Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 17, 2021. After facing criticism for downplaying the virus last year, Iranian authorities have put partial lockdowns and other measures in place to try and slow the coronavirus’ spread. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Arman, 2, plays in front of closed shops of Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Iran, Saturday, April 10, 2021. Iran on Saturday imposed partial lockdown on businesses in major shopping centers as well as intercity travels through personal cars in major cities including capital Tehran as it struggles with the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in the Mideast region. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A general view of a cemetery, where dead people and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victims are buried, in south of Tehran, Iran on March 29, 2021. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





Iranian man Matin, 22, wears a gas mask symbolically as he poses for a photo at a street in Tehran, Iran April 22, 2021. The fourth wave of coronavirus infections has started within the past few days and the Iranian government has announced a “red” situation, meaning extremely high infection probability. Picture taken April 22, 2021 with a red filter. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)




An Iranian girl prays during a religious ceremony called Laylat al-Qadr during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, outside the Sadegh mosque in Tehran, Iran, 03 May 2021. Laylat al-Qadr (Arabic for Night of Destiny) is believed to be the night when the first verse of Islam's holy book, the Koran, was revealed to Prophet Muhammad, the exact date is not known but it is believed to be on an odd night of the last 10 nights of the holy month of Ramadan. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





Cemetery workers lay cinder-block rows of new graves at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery on the outskirts of the Iranian capital, Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. After facing criticism for downplaying the virus last year, authorities have put partial lockdowns and other measures in place to try and slow the coronavirus’ spread, as Iran faces what looks like its worst wave of the coronavirus pandemic yet. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)