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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)
Middle East
Middle East
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Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement in Vienna on the status of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, November 24, 2014. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Iranian flag in the Islamic republic next to a surface-to-surface Qiam-1 (Rising) missile, August 20, 2010. (VAHID REZA ALAEI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Palestinians celebrate an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue while standing in front of a poster of the attackers in the southern Gaza Strip on November 18, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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(MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Ultra Orthodox Jews look at bullet holes in the main window of a synagogue in Jerusalem, November 19, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
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Uranium conversion facility, Isfahan, Iran, March 30, 2005 (Getty Images).
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Sect. of State John Kerry (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (L) shake hands in Muscat on November 9, 2014. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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Domiz refugee camp, 20 km southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, on June 19, 2013. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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(JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
