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Iranian workers walk past a destroyed residential building due to Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl via Getty Images)
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Middle East
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is greeted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street on September 5, 2019 in London, England.
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Pump jacks are seen on the Bakken Shale Formation, near Williston, North Dakota, September 6, 2016.
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Marc Chagall’s Self-Portrait with Easel, 1919. Jewish Museum.
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Mary Mohammadi
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks to supporters following the announcement of exit polls in Israel's election at his Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv.
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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 and Director for South and Central Asia
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Hessen
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
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
Mike Watson
Associate Director, Center for the Future of Liberal Society
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
