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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Arms Control and Nonproliferation
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The reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant as the first fuel is loaded, on August 21, 2010 in Bushehr, southern Iran. (IIPA via Getty Images)
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Russian President Putin (bottom L) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (bottom 2nd L) at the Red Square in Moscow, on May 9, 2013, Topol intercontinental ballistic missile launchers in the foreground (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Iranian flag in the Islamic republic next to a surface-to-surface Qiam-1 (Rising) missile, August 20, 2010. (VAHID REZA ALAEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
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
