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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
Middle East
Middle East
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Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (MAXIM MALINOVSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
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AK Party Supporters in front of the poster of then-Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and then-Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (L) in Ankara, Turkey on August 27, 2014. (Murat Kaynak/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds a Koran at the opening ceremony of the Selehaddin Eyyubi airport on May 26, 2015, in eastern city of Hakkari. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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(Dabiq Magazine)
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Iran's heavy water production facility, October 27, 2004, Arak, Iran. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
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(TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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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)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
