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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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A man looks at drones on display at the International Drone Expo 2015 at Makuhari Messe on May 21, 2015 in Chiba, Japan. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, attend a mass on May 31, 2015 in Arbil, Iraq. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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China's first aircraft carrier, a former Soviet carrier called the Varyag, docked after its handover to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) navy in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning province, September 24, 2012. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Acting U.S. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf conducts a daily press briefing at the State Department April 8, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Displaced Assyrians at the Ibrahim-al Khalil Melkite Greek Catholic church in the Jaramana district on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 1, 2015. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
