An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A protester flashes victory signs as traffic slows during demonstrations in Hamedan, Iran, on January 1, 2026. The demonstrations erupted after shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar shut their businesses to protest the sharp fall of Iran’s currency and worsening economic conditions. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (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)
Pro-Palestine activists confront police during demonstrations at the City College Of New York on April 30, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Israeli soldiers sit atop an infantry-fighting vehicle near the border with the Gaza strip in southern Israel on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)
MV Roy P. Benavidez, a US naval logistics naval vessel, anchored off the coast of the Gaza Strip on April 27, 2024. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to the press after the House passed a major aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and also voted to ban TikTok at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 20, 2024. (Photo by Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images)
Hamas fighters take part in a gathering on January 31, 2016, in Gaza city to pay tribute to their fellow militants who died after a tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip. (Mahmud Hams via Getty Images)
Vehicles drive under a massive billboard that is displays an illustrated image of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps missiles in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2024. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Men wave Iranian flags and flags of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at a gathering to celebrate the IRGC attack against Israel in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2024. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)