An Iraqi man is inoculated against the COVID-19 coronavirus at a vaccination center of Kufa, northeast of Najaf, July 25, 2021. (Photo: Ali Najafi/AFP)
Iranians, some wearing protective gear amid the COVID-19 pandemic, shop at the Tajrish Bazaar market in the capital Tehran on July 14, 2020. (Photo: Atta Kenare/AFP)
Shiite Muslim worshippers gather to mark the mourning day of Ashura, 10 Muharram according to the Islamic calendar at the Imam Hussein shrine in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, on August 19, 2021. (Photo: Mohammed Sawaf / AFP)
Iraqi health workers prepare doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at al-Salam hospital in the northern city of Mosul on July 29, 2021. (Photo: Zaid AL-OBEIDI/AFP)
