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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

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

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Arabic Press:  Saudi Arabia breaking off Talks with Israel out of Despair that Far Right Gov't will make any concessions to Palestinians

Arabic Press: Saudi Arabia breaking off Talks with Israel out of Despair that Far Right Gov’t will make any concessions to Palestinians

Post-script: Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman denied this report 4 days after it appeared and maintained that the negotiations with Israel are continuing, with the […]

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Israeli Squatter-Settlers storm 3rd Holiest Site in Islam to mark Jewish New Year

Israeli Squatter-Settlers storm 3rd Holiest Site in Islam to mark Jewish New Year

( Middle East Monitor ) – Hundreds of Israeli settlers on Sunday forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem […]

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Mahsa Amini: A Year into the Protest Movement in Iran, this is What's Changed

Mahsa Amini: A Year into the Protest Movement in Iran, this is What’s Changed

Mahsa Amini: a year into the protest movement in Iran, this is what’s changed By Afshin Shahi, Keele University | = Iran’s rulers continue to […]

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Libya's Climate Disaster Shows we Can't afford Erratic leaders Like Trump and Haftar any More

Libya’s Climate Disaster Shows we Can’t afford Erratic leaders Like Trump and Haftar any More

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – For the past two weeks the Mediterranean has been reeling from the massive devastation wrought regionally by Hurricane Daniel, the […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
How Mahsa Amini’s Death became a Rallying Call for Thousands of Iranians

How Mahsa Amini’s Death became a Rallying Call for Thousands of Iranians

By Michael Scollon and Fereshteh Ghazi A combo photo shows Mahsa Amini (left) in the hospital on September 16, 2022, and her father and grandmother […]

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Climate Crisis
Summer 2023's Climate-Driven Record-Breaking heat is not 'The New Normal,' since the abnormalities will Keep on Coming

Summer 2023’s Climate-Driven Record-Breaking heat is not ‘The New Normal,’ since the abnormalities will Keep on Coming

Scott Denning, Colorado State University | – Summer 2023 has been the hottest on record by a huge margin. Hundreds of millions of people suffered […]

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Expansion of BRICS, the anti-G7, in the Mideast: Is the Oil Gulf no Longer Pax Americana?

Expansion of BRICS, the anti-G7, in the Mideast: Is the Oil Gulf no Longer Pax Americana?

Exeter (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – BRICS, a group of five developing countries that include China, Russia, and India, has invited another six countries […]

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Climate Crisis: UN Launches Flash Appeal to Aid 250,000 Libyans hit by Devastating Floods

Climate Crisis: UN Launches Flash Appeal to Aid 250,000 Libyans hit by Devastating Floods

( UN News ) – Disaster struck on Sunday when torrential rains from Storm Daniel led two dams close to the now devastated port city […]

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How Zinc-Ion Batteries may solve our Renewable Energy Storage Problem

By Storm William D Gourley, McMaster University and Drew Higgins, McMaster University | – (The Conversation) – Hotter summers, drier forests, rising waters: climate change […]

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