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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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Muhammad and Islamic Peace Studies: Interview with Juan Cole

Muhammad and Islamic Peace Studies: Interview with Juan Cole

Author Juan Cole Detroit (World Religion News ) – Joseph Richard Preville, American Writer and Book Critic, interviews Juan Cole. Joseph Richard Preville: What problems […]

Juan Cole

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Saudi Crown Prince vows Yemeni Children will "Shiver," but is He on Way Out?

Saudi Crown Prince vows Yemeni Children will “Shiver,” but is He on Way Out?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mohamed Bin Salman, the thirty-two-year-old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, is finding his wings clipped, by his father and by […]

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Iran
Iran Launches Suit at UN Court against Trump Sanctions

Iran Launches Suit at UN Court against Trump Sanctions

By Jan Hennop and Roland Lloyd Parry | – The Hague (AFP) – Iran demanded Monday that the UN’s top court order the United States […]

AFP

Republican Party
From this AFP Report, it Seems Vietnam gave Warmer Tributes to McCain than Trump White House

From this AFP Report, it Seems Vietnam gave Warmer Tributes to McCain than Trump White House

Informed Comment syndicates select AFP pieces, and as I prepared this one for publication, the difference between the reported Vietnam response to his death and […]

AFP

Iraq
What 15 Years of US Occupation have Produced: Angry Iraqis

What 15 Years of US Occupation have Produced: Angry Iraqis

Militant protests continue in the oil rich city of Basra

Reese Erlich

Climate Change
Burning Coal, Gas & Oil putting Millions at Risk of Starving

Burning Coal, Gas & Oil putting Millions at Risk of Starving

Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the air threaten to sap wheat, rice, and other staple grains of valuable nutrients

Marlowe Hood

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Iran Parliament Fires Finance Minister, as US Sanctions Bite (Cost Iran $1.1 Trillion)

Iran Parliament Fires Finance Minister, as US Sanctions Bite (Cost Iran $1.1 Trillion)

Iran’s parliament on Sunday fired the Finance Minister, Massoud Karbasian, in a severe political setback for president Hassan Rouhani. The Iranian rial has fallen dramatically […]

Juan Cole

Corporate Surveillance
Are You Ready for the Trump Admin. to Know Everything about You?

Are You Ready for the Trump Admin. to Know Everything about You?

By Judith Coburn | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Now that we know we are surveilled 24/7 by the National Security Agency, the FBI, local police, Facebook, […]

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Prison Workers Strike Nation-wide against Modern Slavery, Dehumanizing Conditions

Prison Workers Strike Nation-wide against Modern Slavery, Dehumanizing Conditions

By Fizz Perkal | – (Inequality.org) – A nationwide strike takes charge at everything from slavery to sentencing. Organizers say it could be the largest […]

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