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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)

Representatives of the European Union, Iran and others attend the Iran nuclear talks at the Grand Hotel on April 15, 2021 in Vienna, Austria. (Photo by EU Delegation in Vienna via Getty Images)