Middle East

Rockets fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza City are intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system on October 8, 2023. (Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images)

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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a rally outside the former US embassy in the capital Tehran on November 4, 2022, in Tehran, Iran. (Contributor via Getty Images)

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A billboard displays a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 18, 2023. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

An Iranian long-range Ghadr missile displaying "Down with Israel" in Hebrew is pictured at a defence exhibition in city of Isfahan, Iran, on February 8, 2023. (Morteza Salehi/Tasnim News/AFP via Getty Images)

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The Israel Missile Defense Organization of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development and the US Missile Defense Agency completed a successful flight test campaign with the Arrow-3 Interceptor missile at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, on July 23, 2019. (Missile Defense Agency via DVIDS)

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Gen. Joseph Votel (center), then commander of US Central Command, standing with senior US and Egyptian officers during a visit to Exercise Bright Star 2018 at Mohamed Naguib Military Base, Egypt, on September 9, 2018. (US Army photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew Keeler)