Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hold a joint press conference following their meeting within the Negev Summit in Tel Aviv, Israel on March 27, 2022. (Photo by GPO/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Iranian Clerics chant slogans during an anti-U.S. rally in Tehran on April 14, 2019 after the U.S. designation of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. (Photo by Rouzbeh Fouladi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during their meeting in Moscow on January 19, 2022. (Photo by Pavel Bednyakov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Michael Doran, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. Photo illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech in the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in downtown Tehran on January 3, 2022. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Azerbaijan flag waving in center of the city on November 28, 2020 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Aziz Karimov/Getty Images)

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev poses with a Harop drone in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan (Press Service, Republic of Azerbaijan)