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A flag of the United Nations flies at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on August 14, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference on January 17, 2016 in the capital Tehran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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St. Elijah's Monastery, Mosul, Iraq, February 15, 2005, before its destruction. (Doug/Wikimedia)
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Screenshot of the Iranian news program that aired footage of the 10 U.S. sailors who were taken hostage. (Sepah News)
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U.S. President Barack Obama at the South Court Auditorium of Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, May 11, 2015. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Iranian protesters set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran during a demonstration against the execution of prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi authorities, on January 2, 2016. (MOHAMMADREZA NADIMI/AFP/Getty Images)
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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
Nadav Samin
Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
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
