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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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An internally displaced Yemeni men receive benefits from a Saudi Foundation on November 25, 2018 in Aden, Yemen. (UNOCHA via Getty Images)
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech to Japanese and U.S. troops with U.S. President Donald Trump, May 28, 2019. (Athit Perawongmetha - Pool/Getty Images)
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Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei leads the Eid al-Fitr Prayer at Grand Prayer Grounds in Tehran, Iran on June 26, 2017. (Getty Images)
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks from the State Department briefing room on June 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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The Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound stands in the Old City on May 9, 2018 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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An armed member of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces secures a conference being held by the predominantly Shia Muslim Popular Mobilization Forces to honour Iranian fighters who died fighting the Islamic State. (Ameer Al Mohammedaw/Getty Images)
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at the Future Investment Initiative FII conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images)
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A group of British soldiers in the court of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 1917 in Jerusalem. (Getty Images)
Experts
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
