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President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
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Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party, Saudi delegation, and Iranian delegation in Beijing, China, on March 10, 2023. (Luo Xiaoguang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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View from Mount Carmel of Haifa shipping port and city in northern Israel on October 12, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images)
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Women protest in solidarity with the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in Melbourne, Australia, on March 11, 2023. (Matt Hrkac via Flickr)
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A man in Tehran holds a local newspaper reporting on the China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore ties signed in Beijing, on March 11, 2023. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
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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)
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David Ben-Gurion. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi on March 7, 2023. (Iranian Presidency Office)
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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)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
