Juan Cole

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

Nations Rush to Renewables, EVs in face of Iran Forever War

Germany’s Energy Minister said that energy policy is now “security policy” and that it wants to avoid being under the thumb of foreign powers

Iran was a real problem for the Israelis because it was a brake on these expansionist and hegemonic designs

All the words and terms having to do with the hydrocarbons produced by the Gulf states and who they are

all it the “Netanyahu tax” that we’ll all be paying in our electricity, grocery, electronics and consumer spending, possibly for years to come

City of poets and gardens, mystical poet, ancient Achaemenid kings, old name for Iran

The long history of Iranian philosophy and spiritual thought shows unprecedented subtlety in treating the inner life of human beings

Egypt’s inertia on green energy and EV’s is bringing the pain, as the virtual closure of the Strait of Hormuz provoke an energy price shock

Russian leaders are clearly taking delight in the way in which Iran is turning into a quagmire for Washington, gleeful at their significant wins

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shi’a al-Sudani on Wednesday called up Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian and condemned Trump’s “unjust war”