A woman wears a face mask as she casts her vote during parliamentary elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran February 21, 2020. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters

Holly Dagres is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council and editor for the Iranist newsletter. She  has written for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Huffington Post, Foreign Policy, Al-Monitor and appeared on BBC News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News among others. On Twitter: @hdagres.