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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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The flag of Iran is seen in front of the building of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Headquarters ahead of a press conference by Rafael Grossi, Director General of the IAEA, about the agency's monitoring of Iran's nuclear energy program on M
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents statements following the Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on October 5, 2020. (Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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People participate in a pro-Palestinian rally on May 22, 2021 in the Queens borough of New York City. After the recent ceasefire between Israelis and Palestinians, activists in New York protested for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. (Photo b
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the faithful at the weekly Muslim Friday prayers at Tehran University on June 19, 2009 (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israelis gather to watch the Iron Dome missile defence system launch to intercept rockets fire from the Gaza Strip on May 17, 2021 in Ashdod, Israel (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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Rockets are fired by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas from Gaza City towards Israel (Photo by Mohammed Talatene/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
