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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
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A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off from Aviano Air Base, Italy, on June 16, 2022. (US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brooke Moeder)
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Vladimir Putin speaks during his press conference at the Rus Sanatorium on October 31, 2022, in Sochi, Russia. (Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin on in the Kremlin on November 2, 2022. (Kremlin)
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The shale gas tanker JS Ineos Intuition passes under the Forth Bridge en route from the Scottish port of Grangemouth to Houston on March 2, 2022. (Ken Jack/Getty Images)
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The US Capitol building as seen from the National Mall at dawn on November 8, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Robert Miller/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
