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An illustration photo shows the DeepSeek logo displayed on a smartphone in Shanghai, China, on March 27, 2025. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
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Uranium conversion facility, Isfahan, Iran, March 30, 2005 (Getty Images).
Commentary
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Sect. of State John Kerry (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (L) shake hands in Muscat on November 9, 2014. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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Domiz refugee camp, 20 km southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, on June 19, 2013. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Rockets being fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza strip into Israel, August 20, 2014.(DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images)
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Displaced Iraqi Christians sleep inside of Saint Joseph's church after having to flee their district on June 26, 2014 in Erbil, Iraq. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
In the Media
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Iraqi Christians walk past a decorations displayed in commemoration of the Elevation of the Holy Cross festival on September 14, 2014, in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. (SAFIN HAMED/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
Ahmad Hashemi
Research Fellow
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Hessen
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Can Kasapo臒lu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Rania Kisar
Research Fellow
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
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
Mike Watson
Associate Director, Center for the Future of Liberal Society
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
