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![Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-09/GettyImages-964322666.jpg?h=b2774bcf&itok=8LR2ZEhQ)
![#Ukraine: In the first credible sighting of Iranian drones in use by Russian forces, here we see the remains of a HESA Shahed-136 loitering munition (or a design based on it), which is made in Iran. From the appearance, it seems it likely detonated.](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.17.2023%20Hashemi.jpg?h=ce9b50b1&itok=2QU9nzOU)
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A Iranian-made Shahed-136 drone allegedly shot down in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in September 2022. (@UAWeapons via Twitter)
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![Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman al-Saud makes a speech during the forty-third Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 9, 2022. (Royal Court of Saudi Arabia/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.15.2023%20Alyahya%20Barrons_0.jpg?h=97ffdf61&itok=wnqfwWtW)
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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman al-Saud makes a speech during the forty-third Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 9, 2022. (Royal Court of Saudi Arabia/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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David Ben-Gurion. (Wikimedia Commons)
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(Screenshot via CNN)
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Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi on March 7, 2023. (Iranian Presidency Office)
![Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei speaks as part of the forty-fourth anniversary events of the Iranian Revolution in Tehran, Iran on February 8, 2023. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.07.2023%20Doran%20Hoover_0.jpg?h=e08eb130&itok=on6Tw27z)
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei speaks as part of the forty-fourth anniversary events of the Iranian Revolution in Tehran, Iran on February 8, 2023. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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![US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides presents his credentials to Israeli President Isaac Herzog. in Jerusalem, Israel, on December 5, 2021. (US Embassy Jerusalem via Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-03/03.06.2023%20Doran%20Tablet%20%282%29.jpg?h=b0d6a85b&itok=tgKwzgBb)
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US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides presents his credentials to Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, Israel, on December 5, 2021. (US Embassy Jerusalem via Flickr)
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The Israeli Knesset on February 16, 2022. (US Embassy Jerusalem via Flickr)
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(Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via Fox Business)
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![Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to China's President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit in Samarkand on September 16, 2022. (Photo by Sergei BOBYLYOV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI BOBYLYOV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-02/02.27.2023%20Mead%20WSJ_0.jpg?h=261f740d&itok=8kVQg7zi)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to China's President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation leaders' summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on September 16, 2022. (Photo by Sergei Bobylov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)