This bug was reported more than 15 years ago. 
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6050
But there is a patch for it since 2015 
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00297.html
Who maintains libc-bin? Could you please apply these patches?

$ iconv -V
iconv (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9.14) 2.31
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Ulrich Drepper.

$ apt-cache policy libc-bin
libc-bin:
  Installed: 2.31-0ubuntu9.14
  Candidate: 2.31-0ubuntu9.14

** Bug watch added: Sourceware.org Bugzilla #6050
   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6050

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Title:
  iconv stdio buffering

Status in eglibc package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Tool "iconv" suffers from the stdio buffering problem described here:

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14472179/how-do-i-perform-a-
  streaming-character-conversion

  Basically, when piping to iconv in an interactive session, output
  stutters. Tool "stdbuf" does not help. From the page above: "But it
  looks like iconv is managing the buffering internally itself - it's
  nothing to do with the Linux pipe buffer."

  Solutions are described in this page:

  http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/

  iconv should have a command-line switch to help. From the page above:

  "Note tail's stdout buffer would also have this problem, but tail -f calls 
fflush
  on the stdout stream when new data is received to alleviate this
  (as do tcpdump -l, grep --line-buffered and sed --unbuffered for example)."

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