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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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The Memorial to the Heroes of WW1 in the Victory Park on May 9, 2015 in Moscow, Russia. (Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images)
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Police stand at the area after a lorry truck ploughed through a Christmas market on December 19, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) looks on as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a meeting at the Plaza Hotel on September 19, 2016 in New York. (DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an awards ceremony in the Kremlin on December 22, 2014 in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force members wave to the Izumo helicopter carrier on March 25, 2015 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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Flowers are placed in front of a portrait of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on December 20, 2016, a day after his assassination in the Turkish capital. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
