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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)
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A group of Egyptians stage demonstration against Egypt's el-Sisi government at Cairo University in Giza, Egypt on April 19, 2015. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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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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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the Ethiopian National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 24, 2015. (Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport on March, 20, 2013 near Tel Aviv, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (R) talk before a meeting at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel March 28, 2015 in Lausanne. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Copies of ballots papers and campaign posters for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party on March 18, 2015 in Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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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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Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow
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
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
