diff --git a/src/crawlee/base_storage_client/_base_dataset_client.py b/src/crawlee/base_storage_client/_base_dataset_client.py
index eb92718da9..ca53d5603d 100644
--- a/src/crawlee/base_storage_client/_base_dataset_client.py
+++ b/src/crawlee/base_storage_client/_base_dataset_client.py
@@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ async def iterate_items(
             An asynchronous iterator of dictionary objects, each representing a dataset item after applying
             the specified filters and transformations.
         """
+        # This syntax is to make mypy properly work with abstract AsyncIterator.
+        # https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/more_types.html#asynchronous-iterators
+        raise NotImplementedError
+        if False:  # type: ignore[unreachable]
+            yield 0
 
     @abstractmethod
     async def get_items_as_bytes(
diff --git a/src/crawlee/memory_storage_client/_dataset_client.py b/src/crawlee/memory_storage_client/_dataset_client.py
index a4ca6d7a90..8877134cbd 100644
--- a/src/crawlee/memory_storage_client/_dataset_client.py
+++ b/src/crawlee/memory_storage_client/_dataset_client.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ async def list_items(
             )
 
     @override
-    async def iterate_items(  # type: ignore
+    async def iterate_items(
         self,
         *,
         offset: int = 0,
diff --git a/src/crawlee/storages/_dataset.py b/src/crawlee/storages/_dataset.py
index 1b244b61f5..526e12296b 100644
--- a/src/crawlee/storages/_dataset.py
+++ b/src/crawlee/storages/_dataset.py
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ async def iterate_items(
         Yields:
             Each item from the dataset as a dictionary.
         """
-        async for item in self._resource_client.iterate_items(  # type: ignore
+        async for item in self._resource_client.iterate_items(
             offset=offset,
             limit=limit,
             clean=clean,