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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
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Iranian Revolutionary Guards march during a parade commemorating the 31st anniversary of Iran-Iraq war on September 22, 2011 in Tehran, Iran. (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) and the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi (L), July 15, 2015, (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Lebanese protesters clash with security forces during a demonstration against the ongoing trash crisis in Beirut, August 22, 2015. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Smoke billows in Egypt's North Sinai on July 2, 2015. At least 70 people, mostly Egyptian soldiers but also civilians, were killed in attacks and ongoing clashes with Islamic State group jihadists.(SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood gather in front the party's headquarters in Cairo on March 22, 2013. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iran President Hassan Rouhani (C) attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, September 12, 2014. (Kyrgyzstan Presidential Office Press Center/Pool/Dosaliev Sultan/Anadolu Agency/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
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
