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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
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Members of the jihadist group Al-Nusra Front fire homemade mortar rounds during fighting with government forces on February 8, 2014 in the Syrian village of Aziza, on the southern outskirts of Aleppo. (BARAA AL-HALABI/AFP/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama delivers remarks in Washington, DC, March 9, 2015. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani under portraits of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C-L) and Iran's founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (C-R), in a suburb of Tehran on June 3, 2014. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) (C) and Minority Whip Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) (R) at the U.S. Capitol March 3, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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A pump jack, used to extract crude oil from the ground, sits above a well on the edge of a farmers field on January 21, 2015 near Ridgway, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Noble Energy CEO Charles Davidson April 10, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint meeting of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, May 24, 2011. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
