Iran Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defense Ministers' Meeting on June 26, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Fu Tian via Getty Images)
Vehicles waiting to be loaded onto roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ships for export on August 12, 2025, in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. (Getty Images)
US Commerce Secretary Howard William Lutnick and Japanese Minister for Economic Revitalization Ryosei Akazawa shake hands on on September 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi in Beijing, China, on December 28, 2024. (Pang Xinglei/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 19, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images)
Commuters drive past a billboard bearing pictures of Masoud Pezeshkian, Mohammad Bagheri, and Benjamin Netanyahu in Tehran on October 27, 2024. (Atta Kenare via Getty Images)
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, on October 4, 2024. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei awards the Order of Fat'h to Amir Ali Hajizadeh in Tehran, Iran, on October 6, 2024. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Anadolu via Getty Images)
An Iranian flag waves on a beach in Bushehr, Iran, home to Iran's first nuclear seaport, on April 28, 2024. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)