Iraqi youths react to the heat as they wait to buy ice blocks at a factory in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, amid power outages and soaring temperatures, July 2, 2021. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
A Kurdish farmer sows seeds in a field at a farm in the Rania district, near the Dukan Dam in the Kurdistan Region's Sulaimani province, July 2, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
US Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski (left) sits next to the Iraqi Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research Nabil Kazem Abdel-Saheb, July 20, 2022. (Photo: Ambassador Alina L. Romanowski/Twitter)
An Iraqi dives into the Shatt al-Arab river across from the Nahr Bin Omar oilfield in Iraq's southern province of Basra, July 18, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
An Iraqi man cools himself down in front of water vaper-spraying fans provided on a street in Baghdad amid a heat spell, June 30, 2021 (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
A view of a dried up body of a dead fish on drying earth in the Chibayesh marshland in Iraq's southern Ahwar area, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Ali Selajgeh, the head of Iran’s Environmental Protection Organization (right) stands alongside Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri of the UAE Climate Change and Environment Ministry, July 12, 2022. (Photo: IRNA)
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