A woman wears metallic-looking mask named as “Battoulah” in Qeshm, Iran on April 17, 2023. Iran's Qeshm Island is known as the “island of masked women”. Women living in the Qeshm Island believe that these masks protect the eyes and face from extreme hot. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, left, listens to the army's air force commander Gen. Hamid Vahedi as he reviews an army parade commemorating Army Day while a missile is carried on a truck in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. President Raisi reiterated threats against Israel while though he stayed away from criticizing Saudi Arabia as Tehran seeks a détente with the kingdom. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A paratrooper flies down over the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini during Iranian Army Day parade just outside Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A robot soccer match between Iran MRL team (in red) and Russia Starkit team (in blue) during the 17th International Iran Open Robocup 2023, in Tehran, Iran, 27 April 2023. The event takes place at Tehran's Azad university from 26 to 28 April with the participation of 12 teams from foreign universities and schools and hundreds of Iranian teams. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)





Musicians wearing folk costumes stage a performance with dafs (traditional Persian music instrument) during the traditional Daf Festival in Bayangan District, in Paveh County, Kermanshah Province, Iran on April 27, 2023. (Photo by Fariq Faraj Mahmood/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A woman talks on her cellphone as she walks around Tajrish commercial district without wearing the mandatory Islamic headscarf in northern Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 29, 2023. More women are choosing not to wear the mandatory headscarf, or the hijab, publicly in Iran. Such open defiance of the law follows months of protests over the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the country's morality police, for wearing her hijab too loosely. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





A man walks in front of a traditional wooden ships (lenj), laid ashore for restoration, in Iran's touristic Qeshm island in the Gulf, on April 29, 2023. From Muscat to Bandar Abbas via Dubai, the potbellied silhouette of the lenjs is part of the maritime landscape of the Middle East, just like that of the sailing dhows of the Arabian Peninsula. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





A traditional wooden ship (lenj) is laid ashore for restoration, in Iran's touristic Qeshm island in the Gulf, on April 29, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





Workers restore a traditional wooden ship (lenj) in a shipyard on Iran's touristic Qeshm island in the Gulf, on April 29, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





Traditional wooden ships (lenj) are pictured on Iran's touristic Qeshm island in the Gulf, on April 29, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





Tourists visit a traditional wooden ships (lenj), on Iran's touristic Qeshm island in the Gulf, on April 29, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





Iranian carpenter Sahar Biglari cleans her eye while working at her workshop in Tehran, Iran, 02 May 2023. Biglari, 41, says she left her job as a math and physics teacher to become a carpenter to break the 'taboo' as woodworking is traditionally considered to be a male-dominated profession. She has become a social media influencer and a celebrity woodworker. “Most of my followers and students are men now, however when I started my new career I received many negative responses from men, but now they respect me and ask for help”, Sahar says. She is considered to be the first female carpenter in Iran to earn money from the job. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/EFE)





An Iranian girl performs during the Local Freestyle football championship 2023 at the Adrenalin park, in Tehran, Iran, 11 May 2023. More than 100 youth participate in the competition. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)





An Iranian boy performs during the Local Freestyle football championship 2023 at the Adrenalin park, in Tehran, Iran, 11 May 2023. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)





An Iranian girl performs during the Local Freestyle football championship 2023 at the Adrenalin park, in Tehran, Iran, 11 May 2023. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)





An Iranian boy performs during the Local Freestyle football championship 2023 at the Adrenalin park, in Tehran, Iran, 11 May 2023. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)





An Iranian girl performs during the Local Freestyle football championship 2023 at the Adrenalin park, in Tehran, Iran, 11 May 2023. (Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)





Women visit the 34th Tehran International Book Fair at Imam Khomeini Mosque in Tehran on May 14, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP Photo)





Iranians shop at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran on May 22, 2023. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP) Photo





In this picture released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Thursday, May 25, 2023, Khorramshahr-4 missile is launched at an undisclosed location, Iran. Iran unveiled on Thursday what it dubbed the latest iteration of its liquid-fueled Khorramshahr ballistic missile amid wider tensions with the West over its nuclear program. (Photo by Iranian Defense Ministry via AP Photo)