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A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure
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A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure

Fariba Amini

When they called your name at midnight, In your thoughts, morning blossomed from a blood-stained horizon.

Juan Cole on Iran War:  “Shock and Awe didn’t Work in Iraq, either” (TRT, Bradblog)

Juan Cole on Iran War: “Shock and Awe didn’t Work in Iraq, either” (TRT, Bradblog)

03/05/2026 By Juan Cole

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

03/05/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Food and War in Sudan

Food and War in Sudan

The Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – have investments in land, food processing and agricultural trade

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right

Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right

Trump’s Gaza plans have no concrete reality, consisting of a mere Potemkin Village: the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza are sleeping rough

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

A new US war on Iran would be a cynical and catastrophic escalation of the crisis already swallowing its people

Nicolas J. S. Davies

nuclear weapons
Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just moved its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to nuclear midnight, four seconds closer than ever before.

Frida Berrigan

Donald Trump
Is Trump getting US Troops out of Syria, another nail in the Coffin of Bush’s “War on Terror?”

Is Trump getting US Troops out of Syria, another nail in the Coffin of Bush’s “War on Terror?”

Trump now has a similar choice, of whether he wants to spend trillions of dollars on a Napoleonic gamble in Iran.

Juan Cole

Academic Freedom
Now They’re Telling Professors what Posters they Can have on their Office Doors, and, no Palestine

Now They’re Telling Professors what Posters they Can have on their Office Doors, and, no Palestine

One of the two posters depicted, in green, red and black, the phrase “Palestine, from the river to the sea”

Committee on Academic Freedom

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s not-so-subtle Push to Annex the Entire Palestinian West Bank

Israel’s not-so-subtle Push to Annex the Entire Palestinian West Bank

The latest cabinet measures extend Israeli civilian administrative reach into areas previously reserved for Palestinian governance.

Middle East Monitor

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With its Togg EV, Turkiye emerges as 4th Biggest European Electric Car Market

With its Togg EV, Turkiye emerges as 4th Biggest European Electric Car Market

44% of the new car market in Turkiye is now battery electric or plug-in hybrid! That is more than California

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

Location, contact networks, patterns of communication, and group affiliations make it possible to map the social life of an entire people

Middle East Monitor

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