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President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran, on January 9, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Syrian government forces are deployed near Al-Aqtan prison on January 19, 2026, in Raqqa, Syria. (Getty Images)
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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the East Room of the White House on January 9, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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A US Air Force B-2 Spirit aircraft departs Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, on October 2, 2025. (US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Hastings)
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A Synagogue desecrated by Arab rioters in Hebron in 1929. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Protesters block a road on January 8, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. (Getty Images)
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A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026. (Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
