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US and Israeli flags fly on November 2, 2020. (State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha)
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Members of Taliban led government, as well as many Afghan men, participate in celebrations marking the first anniversary of the US-led troops' withdrawal from the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Taliban gunmen control Kandahar-Herat Highway, near Kandahar on October 31, 2001. (Banaras Khan/AFP via Getty Images)

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An Iranian boy in an IRGC uniform waves a flag in front of two ballistic missiles during a rally in Tehran on February 10, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Salman Rushdie at the Blue Sofa at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 12, 2017. (Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images)
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A Taliban soldier the first anniversary of the US withdrawal from the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 31, 2022. (Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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US officials including John Kerry and Robert Malley negotiate terms of a nuclear nonproliferation agreement with the leaders of Iran's nuclear program in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 19, 2015. (State Department)
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Writers gather to read selected works of author Salman Rushdie to show solidarity for free expression outside the New York Public Library in New York City on August 19, 2022. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
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Members of the IRGC parade under an Iranian Kheibar Shekan Ballistic missile in downtown Tehran on April 29, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran on August 29, 2022. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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An oil facility on Khark Island, Iran, on March 12, 2017. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)