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 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)
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech during the inaugural session of the new parliament following February elections, in Tehran on May 27, 2020. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, during the Tsinghua Universitys ceremony, at Friendship palace on April 26, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kenzaburo Fukuhara - Pool/Getty Images)
Aerial view of the China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) Jiujiang oil refinery with crude oil processing capacity of 8 million tons per year on January 23, 2021 in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province of China. (Photo by Zhang Haiyan/VCG via Getty Images)
Pedestrians walk past portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il across Kim Il-sung square in Pyongyang on December 3, 2018. (Ed Jones/AFP)