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Are Cyberattacks and Iran’s Port Explosion the First Salvo in Disrupting U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks?
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Are Cyberattacks and Iran’s Port Explosion the First Salvo in Disrupting U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks?

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Iran, Israel, the US, Russia, and China are interconnected by rumors of cyberattacks and sabotage By Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Marashi | – Braga, Portugal […]

Iran, US Conclude ‘Difficult But Useful’ Round Of Nuclear Talks In Oman

Iran, US Conclude ‘Difficult But Useful’ Round Of Nuclear Talks In Oman

05/12/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Donald Trump’s Feverish Lust for Green Energy Resources isn’t about the Climate

Donald Trump’s Feverish Lust for Green Energy Resources isn’t about the Climate

05/12/2025 By Joshua Frank

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Blogfather in Iran sentenced to 19.5 years for Dissent

Blogfather in Iran sentenced to 19.5 years for Dissent

Iran jails blogfather Hussein Derakhshan for nearly 20 years for blogging. Derakhshan made a lot of enemies when he started justifying the Ahmadinejad regime in […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
27 US Fuel Trucks Torched as Pakistan Blocks US Supplies at Khyber Pass for 2nd Day

27 US Fuel Trucks Torched as Pakistan Blocks US Supplies at Khyber Pass for 2nd Day

Tensions between the United States (‘NATO”) and the Pakistani government boiled over on Thursday and Friday after American helicopter gunships killed 3 Pakistani Frontier Corpsmen […]

Juan Cole

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Americans are always Shouting About Religion But Don’t Know Much About It

Americans are always Shouting About Religion But Don’t Know Much About It

Did you ever wonder how all that hysteria got going in August and September about mosque-building in the United States, in which Americans demonstrated themselves […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Redd: What About Jerusalem?

Redd: What About Jerusalem?

Adrienne Redd writes in a guest column for Informed Comment After remaining silent for the first month of the semester, a student in my seminar […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Update on German Terrorist Plot

Update on German Terrorist Plot

Update: The plot is alleged to have been hatched by young Muslim-German men who had been attending the same mosque in Hamburg where the 9/11 […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Major al-Qaeda Attacks on European Cities Said Foiled

Major al-Qaeda Attacks on European Cities Said Foiled

The FT reports that the intensification of US drone bombardment of suspected al-Qaeda positions in Pakistan’s tribal northwest in recent days appears to have been […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Deputy Gov. Ghazni Killed; <br> Karzai Weeps, announces Peace Outreach Council

Deputy Gov. Ghazni Killed;
Karzai Weeps, announces Peace Outreach Council

Anti-government guerrillas attacked the convoy of the deputy governor of Ghazni province on Tuesday. According to Pajhwok, “Deputy governor of Ghazni province Mohammad Kazem Allahyar, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu Blows off US; Mahmoud Abbas pleads for Settlement Freeze

Netanyahu Blows off US; Mahmoud Abbas pleads for Settlement Freeze

President Barack Obama has just gotten the Netanyahu treatment. Obama came into office saying that a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the establishment of […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Engaging the Muslim World Out in Paperback

Engaging the Muslim World Out in Paperback

Today is the official publication date for the paperback edition of my most recent book, Engaging the Muslim World. Click here to purchase It is […]

Juan Cole

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