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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
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Middle East
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The IDF Counter-Terror School's underground warfare division trains in a mock tunnel build to replicate Hamas terror tunnels on August 1, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces via Flickr)
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Israeli flag (Erminig Gwenn via flickr)
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Rockets fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza City are intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system on October 8, 2023. (Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a rally outside the former US embassy in the capital Tehran on November 4, 2022, in Tehran, Iran. (Contributor via Getty Images)
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A billboard displays a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 18, 2023. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
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An Iranian long-range Ghadr missile displaying "Down with Israel" in Hebrew is pictured at a defence exhibition in city of Isfahan, Iran, on February 8, 2023. (Morteza Salehi/Tasnim News/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Israel Missile Defense Organization of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development and the US Missile Defense Agency completed a successful flight test campaign with the Arrow-3 Interceptor missile at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, on July 23, 2019. (Missile Defense Agency via DVIDS)
Experts
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Ahmad Hashemi
Research Fellow
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Hessen
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Rania Kisar
Research Fellow
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Mike Watson
Associate Director, Center for the Future of Liberal Society
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
