A man wades in mud after flash flooding at Imamzadeh Davood village in the northwestern part of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Heavy rains in the early hours of Thursday caused flash floods and then landslides and caused damage to Imamzadeh Davood, a religious shrine in the city. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A car is stuck in mud after flash flooding at Imamzadeh Davood village in the northwestern part of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





People evacuate the Imamzadeh Davood village in the northwestern part of Tehran, after flash floods, Iran, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





In this photo provided by the Iranian Red Crescent Society, members of a rescue team work at the site of a flash flood in the northwestern part of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Iranian Red Crescent Society via AP Photo)





In this photo provided by the Iranian Red Crescent Society, a member of a rescue team stands with his dog at the scene of a flash flood in the northwestern part of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Iranian Red Crescent Society via AP Photo)





A handout picture made available by the Iranian Presidential Office shows a general view of Firuzkuh after floods, Iran on 30 July 2022. According to the Iranian Red Crescent Society quoting local officials, at least 56 people have died and 18 are missing in recent floods in most cities of Iran. (Photo by Iranian Presidency/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Members of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCC) and villagers carrying a body found from the ruins of a destroyed house in the flooded village of Mazdaran in Firoozkooh county 124 km (77 miles) northeast of Tehran, after flash flooding, July 31, 2022. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Two women visit a 19th and 20th-century American and European minimalist and conceptual masterpieces show at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, August 2, 2022. Some of the world’s most prized works of contemporary Western art have been unveiled for the first time in decades – in Tehran. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Shoes left on the steps of a villa at the site of a flash flood in Zayegan village, in city of Fasham, northern of the capital city of Tehran, Iran, 02 August 2022. According to the last report by Iranian Red Crescent Society quoting local officials, at least 76 people were killed and 16 others are missing in recent floods in most cities of Iran. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Iranian Shi'ite Muslim women take part in a mourning ritual ahead of Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar in Tehran, Iran on August 7, 2022. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





Iranian people burn a tent as part of a re-enactment of a scene from the 7th century battle of Karbala during a ceremony to mark Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in Tehran, Iran on August 8, 2022. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)





Actors, wearing armor on horseback, perform during Tazieh, a traditional theater scene about the death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of Prophet Muhammad, in Noushabad, about 140 miles (233 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, August 9, 2022. The play re-enacts the battle of Karbala against the leader of what became the Sunni branch of Islam, in present-day Iraq, in which Hussein, one of Shiite Islam's most beloved saints, and 72 of his companions were killed. The actors represent enemies of Imam Hussein. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





People scan publications at a news stand in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, August 13, 2022. Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A visitor looks at handmade carpets during the 29th Handmade Carpet Exhibition at the International Exhibition Complex in Tehran, Iran, 23 August 2022. The exhibition runs until 28 August. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





An Iranian cleric stands near a drone during a military exercise in an undisclosed location in Iran, in this handout image obtained on August 24, 2022. (Photo by Iranian Army/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Rtuters)





This handout picture provided by the Iranian Army office on August 25, 2022 shows an explosion following a strike by a military unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) during a two-day drone drill at an undisclosed location in Iran. (Photo by Iranian Defence Ministry/AFP Photo)





This handout picture provided by the Iranian Army office on August 25, 2022 shows the launch of a military unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) during a two-day drone drill at an undisclosed location in Iran. (Photo by Iranian Defence Ministry/AFP Photo)





Iranian women fans of Esteghlal football club cheer during a match between Esteghlal and Mes Kerman at the Azadi stadium in the capital Tehran, on August 25, 2022. Iranian women were allowed today to attend a national football championship match for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in a “historic” move, local media reported. (Photo by Hossein Zohrevand/TASNIM NEWS via AFP Photo)





A woman attends a funeral ceremony for Iranian prominent poet Houshang Ebtehaj, shown in the posters, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, August 26, 2022. Ebtehaj, a distinguished Iranian poet whose small but influential body of work made him a major figure in his own country and in world literature, died on Aug. 10, at 94, in Cologne, Germany. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





In this Monday, September 19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, people run away from anti-riot police during a protest over the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country's conservative dress code, in downtown Tehran, Iran. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





In this Monday, September 19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, anti-riot police arrive to disperse demonstrators during a protest over the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country's conservative dress code, in downtown Tehran. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)