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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True
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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True

Juan Cole

A revised version of an essay from a long time ago. It didn’t need much revision. Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack […]

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

06/21/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

06/21/2025 By The Conversation

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Saudi Arabia
Signs of Rift in Saudi Royal Family over Yemen Quagmire that has left 10,000 Dead?

Signs of Rift in Saudi Royal Family over Yemen Quagmire that has left 10,000 Dead?

Riyadh (AFP) – Saudi King Salman’s brother has played down controversial remarks he made to anti-Saudi protesters in London that sparked furious speculation about possible […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Jordan rejects Kushner’s “Confederation,” Abbas slams “Liquidation” of Palestinian Cause

Jordan rejects Kushner’s “Confederation,” Abbas slams “Liquidation” of Palestinian Cause

Amman (AFP) – Jordan’s King Abdullah II firmly rejects the idea of a confederation with the Palestinians in the place of a two-state solution to […]

AFP

Donald Trump
Crazytown Abroad: Trump's Dreams of  Preemptive War, Assassination and Withdrawal

Crazytown Abroad: Trump’s Dreams of Preemptive War, Assassination and Withdrawal

Trump on Bashar al-Assad: “Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the fucking lot of them.”

Juan Cole

China
Dragon Waiting: After Idlib, Will Beijing Bring Syria into its One Belt Network?

Dragon Waiting: After Idlib, Will Beijing Bring Syria into its One Belt Network?

As speculation grows that the Syrian army under the regime of Bashar al-Assad is preparing to strike at the Idlib de-escalation zone, the last piece […]

Neil Thompson

Muslim-Americans
Why is it Muslim Americans need Military Service to be Accepted as Americans?

Why is it Muslim Americans need Military Service to be Accepted as Americans?

(Mizan) – On October 19, 2008, a little over a fortnight before the November 4 election contested by Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, […]

Edward E. Curtis IV

Iran
Israel Won’t Rule out Bombing Iraq to get at Iran

Israel Won’t Rule out Bombing Iraq to get at Iran

FM Lieberman: “Our Freedom of Action is Total.”

AFP

Afghanistan
Parade!  How Trump Redefined Victory in Afghanistan as "Attacking our Enemies"

Parade! How Trump Redefined Victory in Afghanistan as “Attacking our Enemies”

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – 4,000,000,029,057. Remember that number. It’s going to come up again later. But let’s begin with another number entirely: 145,000 — as […]

Nick Turse

Donald Trump
Trump Gingerly, Politely begs Russia not to Do Syria Idlib Campaign, Pretty Please

Trump Gingerly, Politely begs Russia not to Do Syria Idlib Campaign, Pretty Please

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP reports that President Trump is cautioning the Syrian regime against launching an all-out assault on the last remaining rebel […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Turkey calls US ‘Wild Wolves,’ vows to Dump Dollar for Russia, Iran Trade

Turkey calls US ‘Wild Wolves,’ vows to Dump Dollar for Russia, Iran Trade

Erdogan’s visit to Kyrgyzstan seeks more Trade, Boycott of Gulen Movement

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