Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sits beside Iranian officials and other leaders during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on July 30, 2024. On the first row, second to the left, is Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) General Commander Hossein Salami and IRGC Quds Force Commander Ismail Qaani attend a funeral prayer for the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, in Tehran, Iran, on May 22, 2024. (Photo by Iranian Leader Press Office/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Joe Biden delivers a statement urging Congress to pass his national security supplemental from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 6, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
A model of Iran's first-ever hypersonic missile, the Fattah, next to a mosque in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2024. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Iranians attend the annual rally commemorating the 1979 Islamic Revolution as domestically built missiles and a satellite carrier are displayed at the Azadi Square in in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, February 11, 2024. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)