The Omicron variant, fast-spreading as it may be, is now being treated more as flu, albeit a respect-worthy flu, with the majority of people still wearing masks but going about their daily tasks unrestricted.
In 2021 Iran has had the Vienna talks to remove US imposed sanction sanctions on Iran, as well as a health crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic and plenty of western “double-speak” to contend with.
Iran has had to battle the virus while under some of the harshest sanctions the US has ever imposed on any country yet has managed to produce highly efficient indigenous vaccines.