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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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Patriarchate of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East in Erbil, Iran, on September 16, 2022. (Tony Kiriakidis via Flickr)
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An election campaign banner showing Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with Narendra Modi on September 11, 2019, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Iranians gather to celebrate the new year at Saint Sarkis Cathedral on January 1, 2022, in Tehran, Iran. (Meghdad Madadi via ATPImages/Getty Images)
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Joe Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on July 14, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
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Moroccan and Chinese officials sign a memorandum of understanding to promote trade between the two countries in Rabat, Morocco, on November 30, 2023. (Twitter via HAIDAAbdelali)
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A banner reading "#End Jew Hatred" at a rally in Berlin, Germany, on July 25, 2021. (Jörg Carstensen/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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US Marines fire an M777-A2 Howitzer in Syria on June 2, 2017. (US Marine Corps Photo by Matthew Callahan)
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A gathering outside of the former US embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 2022, celebrating the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the embassy by protestors. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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An Israeli flag flies in Jerusalem. (David Silverman via Getty Images)
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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
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
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
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
