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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
Middle East
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MDL Beast Festival on December 19, 2019, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Matt Crossik via Getty Images )
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during the prospect foundation forum in Taipei. (Photo by Walid Berrazeg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Taliban fighters in armoured vehicles take part in a military street parade in Herat on April 19, 2022. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images)
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi meets Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian in Tehran, Iran on March 05, 2022. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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The Israeli flag at the Western Wall. (Getty Images)
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Leaders representing Russia, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Iran, and Kyrgyzstan attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of State in Bishek in 2019. (Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2022. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images)
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Representatives of the European Union, Iran and others attend the Iran nuclear talks at the Grand Hotel on April 15, 2021 in Vienna, Austria. (Photo by EU Delegation in Vienna via Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
