Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military personnel walks next to an Iranian Emad Surface-to-Surface missile in downtown Tehran. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Blue Mosque in Istanbul on June 14, 2022. (Yasin Akgul/AFP via Getty Images)

MDL Beast Festival on December 19, 2019, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Matt Crossik via Getty Images )

Leaders representing Russia, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Iran, and Kyrgyzstan attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of State in Bishek in 2019. (Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images)