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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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Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, on May 05, 2019. (NurPhoto/Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump speaks alongside US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo prior to signing a Proclamation on the Golan Heights in DC, March 25, 2019. (SAUL LOEB/Getty Images)
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Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei holds a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran on April 03, 2019. (Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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On April 10, 2019 Israeli Likud Party campaign material and posters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strewn on the floor following election night at the party headquarters in the coastal city of Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ/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
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
