A newspaper with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2022. Police have said Amini fell ill as she waited with other women held by the morality police, who enforce strict rules in the Islamic republic requiring women to cover their hair and wear loose-fitting clothes in public. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)





In this Monday, Sept.ember19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a man pulls out a police motorcycle which is set on fire 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 Tuesday, September 20, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters throw stones at 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. Iran faced international criticism on Tuesday over the death of a woman held by its morality police, which ignited three days of protests, including clashes with security forces in the capital and other unrest that claimed at least three lives. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Demonstrators gather around a burning barricade during a protest for Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's “morality police”, in Tehran on September 19, 2022. Fresh protests broke out on September 19 in Iran over the death of a young woman who had been arrested by the “morality police” that enforces a strict dress code, local media reported. Public anger has grown since authorities on Friday announced the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in a hospital after three days in a coma, following her arrest by Tehran's morality police during a visit to the capital on September 13. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





In this Wednesday, September 21, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran. Iranians saw their access to Instagram, one of the few Western social media platforms still available in the country, disrupted on Wednesday following days of the mass protests. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Iranians wave the national flag as they march during a pro-hijab rally in the capital Tehran on September 23, 2022. Thousands of people marched through Iran's capital during a pro-hijab rally Friday, paying tribute to security forces who have moved to quell a week of protests by what media called “conspirators”. Iran has been rocked by street violence that has claimed the lives of at least 17 people since the death last week of Mahsa Amini, who had been detained for wearing the hijab headscarf in an “improper” way. State news agency IRNA said thousands of people took to the streets of Tehran on Friday after the main weekly prayers, in response to a call from Iran's Islamic Development Coordination Council. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





This photo shows that Iranian women are on the front line of the protests and are fighting against the agents of repression in Tehran, Iran on September 28, 2022. (Photo by Social Media/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman flashes a victory sign as she walks around in the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, October 1, 2022. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the morality police in the capital of Tehran for allegedly wearing her mandatory Islamic veil too loosely. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





People conduct their business in the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, October 1, 2022. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Two women drink a slushy while walking around in the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, October 1, 2022. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, reviews a group of armed forces cadets during their graduation ceremony accompanied by commanders of the armed forces, at the police academy in Tehran, Iran, Monday, October 3, 2022. Khamenei responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn what he called “rioting” and accuse the U.S. and Israel of planning the protests. (Photo by Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP Photo)





This picture released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, shows a Saman test tug rocket before being launched, in Iran. Iranian state media said Tuesday the government launched the space tug capable of shifting satellites between orbits on Monday. Hassan Salarieh, the country's space agency chief, said the Monday launch is expected to be followed by testing soon. Farsi words on the rocket read, “Saman sub-orbital explorer”. (Photo by Iranian Defense Ministry via AP Photo)





Iranians take part in a pro-government rally in Tajrish square north of Tehran, on October 5, 2022, condemning recent anti-government protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. Amini, 22, was pronounced dead days after the notorious morality police detained the Iranian Kurdish woman in Tehran in Septembre 2022 for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women. Anger flared at her funeral and spread to become the biggest wave of protests to rock Iran in almost three years, despite the backlash by the security forces that has killed scores and seen hundreds arrested. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A fire truck stands in front of a charred building after a fire broke out at the Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, late 15 October 2022 (issued 16 October 2022). State news agency IRNA said on 16 October, that four prisoners died due to smoke inhalation and 61 others were injured after a fire broke out at Tehran's Evin prison overnight. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





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)





This UGC image posted on Twitter reportedly on October 26, 2022 shows an unveiled woman standing on top of a vehicle as thousands make their way towards Aichi cemetery in Saqez, Mahsa Amini's home town in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan, to mark 40 days since her death, defying heightened security measures as part of a bloody crackdown on women-led protests. A wave of unrest has rocked Iran since 22-year-old Amini died on September 16 following her arrest by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly breaching the country's strict rules on hijab headscarves and modest clothing. (Photo by UGC/AFP Photo)





Bullet holes on the wall and blood on the ground are seen after gunmen attacked the Shah Cheragh shrine in the southern city of Shiraz, Iran, Wednesday, October 26, 2022. Gunmen attacked the major Shiite holy site in Iran on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens. The attack came as protesters elsewhere in Iran marked a symbolic 40 days since a woman's death in custody ignited the biggest anti-government movement in over a decade. (Photo by Mohammadreza Dehdari/Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA via AP Photo)





Iranian security forces deploy following an armed attack at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the city of Shiraz on October 26, 2022. At least 15 people were killed in an attack on a key Shiite Muslim shrine in southern Iran, state media said, with the Islamic State group claiming the assault. The attack carried out by an armed "terrorist" during evening prayers at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum also wounded at least 19 people, state television said. (Photo by ISNA News Agency/AFP Phoot)





Workers clean up the scene following an armed attack at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the Iranian city of Shiraz on October 26, 2022. At least 15 people were killed in an attack on a key Shiite Muslim shrine in southern Iran, state media said, with the Islamic State group claiming the assault. The attack carried out by an armed “terrorist” during evening prayers at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum also wounded at least 19 people, state television said. (Photo by ISNA News Agency/AFP Photo)





Female students chant slogans during an anti-Britain demonstration, condemning the United Kingdom's support of London-based Iranian opposition TV stations and anti-government protests in Iran, outside the British embassy in Iran's capital Tehran on October 27, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)