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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi inspect a guard of honor on October 29, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference in response to the Iran Nuclear Deal on July 15, 2015 (Ken Cedeno/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Military parade in Tehran, Iran, September 21, 2016 (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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President Trump speaks about the Iran deal from the Diplomatic Reception room of the White House, October 13, 2017 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iranians protest in Tehran, December 30, 2017 (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Anti-government protests in Tehran, December 30, 2017 (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/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)
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
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
Mike Watson
Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Strategy and American Statecraft
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
