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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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Obama: GOP afraid of little Syrian Girls; Cruz: 'You want a piece of me?'

Obama: GOP afraid of little Syrian Girls; Cruz: ‘You want a piece of me?’

John Iadarola and Elliot Hill | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “President Obama is speaking out against Republican politicians and members of the […]

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Arrest Warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu for War Crimes in Spain, South Africa

Arrest Warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu for War Crimes in Spain, South Africa

IMEMC | – – South Africa issued, on Tuesday, an arrest warrant against four Israeli officials over their role in deadly attacks on pro-Palestinian international […]

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Grand Alliance against ISIL:  Can Putin come in from the Cold?

Grand Alliance against ISIL: Can Putin come in from the Cold?

By Brian Whitmore | ( RFE/RL ) | – – He wasn’t ostracized. He wasn’t isolated. And certainly nobody threatened to shirtfront him. In the […]

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Barack Obama
A New Yalta?  Can France Craft an alliance of Putin & Obama against Daesh/ISIL?

A New Yalta? Can France Craft an alliance of Putin & Obama against Daesh/ISIL?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – French President Francois Hollande is seeking a new relationship with Russia after the attacks on Paris […]

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2003:  Iraqi Governors who did not want Americans in their Country

2003: Iraqi Governors who did not want Americans in their Country

“Could we have a prudent pause?”

Juan Cole

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Obama to Hawks:  You can’t Occupy all the Countries in the Middle East

Obama to Hawks: You can’t Occupy all the Countries in the Middle East

By John Hickman | (Informed Comment) | – – There was something very reassuring about President Obama’s delivery of a carefully reasoned explanation for his […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Swedish FM worries about Muslim & Palestinian Youth Despair, draws Israeli Rebuke

Swedish FM worries about Muslim & Palestinian Youth Despair, draws Israeli Rebuke

By IMEMC | – – Following the Paris attacks on Friday, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom made a connection between Islamic State extremism and the […]

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France
Paris attacks: how effective has the military response been?

Paris attacks: how effective has the military response been?

By Scott Lucas | (The Conversation) | – – Even as Parisians were trying to assess the scale of the attacks by Islamic State (IS) […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Non-Christian Refugee

Non-Christian Refugee

Juan Cole

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