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An illustration photo shows the DeepSeek logo displayed on a smartphone in Shanghai, China, on March 27, 2025. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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Following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, protestors take to the streets of Tehran on September 21, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Ilam on May 3, 2017. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Map of Africa in Ottoman Turkish. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Leaders stand outside of the White House following the signing of the Abraham Accords on September 15, 2022, in Washington DC. (Chen Mengtong/China News Service via Getty Images)
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani of Bahrian, and Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan of the UAE at the White House after signing the Abraham Accords on September 15, 2020. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945. (Wikimedia Commons)
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US and Israeli flags fly on November 2, 2020. (State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha)
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Members of Taliban led government, as well as many Afghan men, participate in celebrations marking the first anniversary of the US-led troops' withdrawal from the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Taliban gunmen control Kandahar-Herat Highway, near Kandahar on October 31, 2001. (Banaras Khan/AFP via 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
Ahmad Hashemi
Research Fellow
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Hessen
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Rania Kisar
Research Fellow
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
Associate Director, Center for the Future of Liberal Society
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
