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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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Guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer carrying Tomahawk land-attack missiles, in the Atlantic Ocean, August 2, 2012. (U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (C) speaks as President Barack Obama (L) and Vice President Joe Biden look on during a press conference announcing Hagel's resignation, November 24, 2014. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement in Vienna on the status of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, November 24, 2014. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Iranian flag in the Islamic republic next to a surface-to-surface Qiam-1 (Rising) missile, August 20, 2010. (VAHID REZA ALAEI/AFP/Getty Images)
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A member of Russia's delegation looks at a monitor showing the speech of US President Barack Obama during the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague on March 25, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Palestinians celebrate an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue while standing in front of a poster of the attackers in the southern Gaza Strip on November 18, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
