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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)
Middle East
Middle East
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(Screenshot from NASA World Wind)
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The new Ak Saray presidential palace (White Palace) on the outskirts of Ankara on October 29, 2014. (ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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A pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds up a burning Israeli flag on the Republique square in Paris on July 26, 2014. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/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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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
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
