An aerial view of Vafa animal shelter, the country’s first sanctuary for injured and homeless dogs in Hashtgerd, Iran on December 23, 2019. (Photo by Wana News Agency via Reuters)





An Iranian woman walks past a bilboard as she talks on the phone in the capital Tehran, on November 27, 2019. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised the country's people for foiling a “very dangerous” plot after violence erupted during protests this month against a fuel price hike by as much as 200 percent, as protesters attacked police stations, torched petrol pumps and looted shops, before being quashed within a few days. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





Iranian women attend Iran's World Cup Asian qualifier against Cambodia at the Azadi stadium in Tehran, Iran on October 10, 2019. The game was as notable for the presence of 3,500 female fans, who were allowed into the stadium for a World Cup qualifier for the first time in the four decades since the Islamic Revolution. (Photo by WANA via Reuters)





Female police officers work at the Azadi (Freedom) Stadium during a soccer match between Iran and Cambodia in the 2022 World Cup qualifier in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, October 10, 2019. Iranian women were freely allowed into the stadium for the first time in decades. The decision follows the death of a young woman who set herself on fire after hearing she could face prison time for sneaking into an Iranian soccer match disguised as a man. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A woman walks past a satirical drawing of the Statue of Liberty after new anti-U.S. murals on the walls of former U.S. embassy unveiled in a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, November 2, 2019. Anti-U.S. works of graphics is the main theme of the wall murals painted by a team of artists ahead of the 40th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. diplomatic post by revolutionary students. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





People walk past a bank that was burned during recent protests, in Shahriar, Iran, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran, Wednesday, November 20, 2019. Protests over government-set gasoline prices rising struck at least 100 cities and towns, spiraling into violence that saw banks, stores and police stations attacked and burned. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





People attend a funeral ceremony of 2 security officers, who lost their lives in petrol price hike protests, in Tehran, Iran on November 20, 2019. The funeral ceremony turn into a counter-protest against petrol price hike protests afterwards. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Iranian women pray as they commemorate the Arbaeen in Tehran, Iran on October 19, 2019. (Photo by Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





Iranians hold pictures of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and wave national flags during a rally to show their support to the Islamic Republic system and to condemn recent violent protests following fuel price hike in the country, in Tehran, Iran, 25 November 2019. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





People look at the skyline through polluted air, in the Velenjak mountainous area of Tehran, Iran Monday, December 23, 2019. Dangerously poor air quality forced Iran’s government on Monday to keep all schools closed in the capital, Tehran, and other cities. Schools were closed since Saturday, and will remain closed until Wednesday, the end of the week in Iran, according to the official IRNA news agency. Tehran’s air is among the most polluted in the world. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





In this July 13, 2005, file photo, outgoing reformist Iranian President Mohammad Khatami talks on the phone with the mother of female journalist Masih Alinejad, right, after meeting with journalists in Tehran, Iran. Alinejad, famous for her campaign against the Islamic Republic’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab, for women filed a lawsuit on Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, in U.S. federal court against Iran, alleging a government-led harassment campaign targets her and her family. (Photo by Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP Photo/File)





Mourners holding posters of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani attend a funeral ceremony for him and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike on Friday, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, January 6, 2020. The processions mark the first time Iran honored a single man with a multi-city ceremony. Not even Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic, received such a processional with his death in 1989. Soleimani on Monday will lie in state at Tehran's famed Musalla mosque as the revolutionary leader did before him. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others who were killed in Iraq by a U.S. drone strike, are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during a funeral procession at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, January 6, 2020. The processions mark the first time Iran honored a single man with a multi-city ceremony. Not even Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic, received such a processional with his death in 1989. Soleimani on Monday will lie in state at Tehran's famed Musalla mosque as the revolutionary leader did before him. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A supporter of the Houthis has a poster attached to his waist of Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, who was killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, during a rally to denounce the U.S. killing, in Saada, Yemen January 6, 2020. The writing on the poster reads: “God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam”. (Photo by Naif Rahma/Reuters)





Mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike on Friday, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, January 6, 2020. The processions mark the first time Iran honored a single man with a multi-city ceremony. Not even Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic, received such a processional with his death in 1989. Soleimani on Monday will lie in state at Tehran's famed Musalla mosque as the revolutionary leader did before him. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)