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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)
![walter russell mead](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-11/11.29%20Mead%20Hamiltonian.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=u_g-fPcU)
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An Israeli flag flies in Jerusalem. (David Silverman via Getty Images)
![ukraine drone kyiv iran](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-11/11.25%20Coffey.jpg?h=69ab7a72&itok=-Jt7Rj5A)
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Firefighters conduct search and rescue operations at a residential building hit by a kamikaze drone on October 17, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Yevhenii Zavhorodnii/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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![An Iranian long range surface to surface Qadr missile and an anti-aircraft gun are displayed in a war exhibition organized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a park in southern Tehran to mark the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war on September 23, 2021. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-11/11.9%20doran%20kasapoglu.jpg?h=2730b8c7&itok=mHZp4S8A)
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An Iranian long range surface to surface Qadr missile and an anti-aircraft gun are displayed in a war exhibition organized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a park in southern Tehran to mark the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war on September 23, 2021. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
![An Iranian woman holds both Ukrainian and Iranian flags at a demonstration for peace in Cologne, Germany, on November 5, 2022. (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-11/11.8%20mead.jpg?h=790be497&itok=U2bnuZ0S)
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An Iranian woman holds both Ukrainian and Iranian flags at a demonstration for peace in Cologne, Germany, on November 5, 2022. (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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![KYIV, UKRAINE - 2022/10/17: Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone strike, which local authorities consider to be Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Shahed-136, in central Kyiv. At least four people have been killed as a result of a drone attack on a residential building in Kyiv. (Photo by Oleksii Chumachenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-11/11.4%20Coffey.jpg?h=9eb0d413&itok=_8ql9tmv)
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Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone, which local authorities believe to be Iranian-made Shahed-136, in central Kyiv on October 17, 2022. (Oleksii Chumachenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
![A Russian army T-72-B3 tank fires during military exercises at the Raevsky range in Southern Russia on September 23, 2020 during the "Caucasus-2020" military drills gathering China, Iran, Pakistan and Myanmar troops, along with ex-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. - Up to 250 tanks and around 450 infantry combat vehicles and armoured personnel carriers will take part in the September 21 to 26 land and naval exercises that will involve 80,000 people including support staff. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF /](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-11/11.3%20block%20real.jpg?h=1dfc45c8&itok=S602KIXy)
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A Russian T-72 tank fires during joint military exercises between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Iran, Pakistan, and Myanmar at the Raevsky range in Southern Russia on September 23, 2020, during the "Caucasus-2020" military drills. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
![missile iran saudi arabia China, Russia, Pakistan, Myanmar, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus,](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-11/11.2%20doran%20kasapoglu.jpg?h=ac778ff2&itok=6nJ_Ac_o)
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Missiles fire over the Caspian Sea during the Caucasus-2020 military drills between Iran, China, Russia, Pakistan, Myanmar, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus, on September 23, 2020. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
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![resident Truman in the Oval Office, evidently receiving a Menorah as a gift from the Prime Minister of israel david ben gurion](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-10/10.31%20Mead%20Decision%20Points.jpg?h=8287faa0&itok=00gEIsqq)
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President Harry S. Truman receives a menorah from Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Ambassador of Israel to the United States Abba Eban in the Oval Office on May 8, 1951. (Wikimedia Commons)
![Mike Pompeo appears on Fox Business to talk about Chinese police activity in the US](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-10/Pompeo%20on%20Fox%20Business.png?h=f1ee6957&itok=9AsKDQXW)
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(Screenshot via Fox Business)
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![mahsa amini](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-10/10.28%20Riboua.jpg?h=bc816b12&itok=wNpp4oBe)
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A boy looks on during a candlelight vigil to pay tribute to those who have died protesting the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who was killed in police custody after allegedly violating the country's hijab rules, outside the White House on October 1, 2022. (Bonnie Cash via Getty Images)
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![azerbaijan aras river luke coffey iran](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-10/10.27%20coffey.jpg?h=314401b6&itok=2mNzvvwd)
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An Azerbaijani soldier keeping guard by the Aras River, which forms much of Azeri-Iranian border, in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan, on December 7, 2020. (Murat Kaynak/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)