Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]
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Who is Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?
By Sahar Maranlou, Royal Holloway University of London (The Conversation) – Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1939, as the second son of […]
For Most Palestinians in Gaza, Staying Hungry is better than Risking Life to get Aid
by Motasem A Dalloul ( Middle East Monitor ) – After more than 100 days of complete Israeli ban on the entry of aid and […]
The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Leader, […]
US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity
By Simon Mabon, Lancaster University (The Conversation) – When US B-2 bombers hit Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, Donald Trump declared the […]
No Kings! This is What Democracy Looks Like
( Tomdispatch.com ) – How strange. I’ve been going to demonstrations for a long, long while now. I began once upon a distant time in […]
Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East
As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more […]
Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Cynthia Teniente-Matson President San José State University sjsupres@sjsu.edu . . . Dear President Teniente-Matson […]
Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”
The student organizer condemned the Trump administration’s treatment of “hundreds of men” he met while imprisoned in Louisiana for more than three months. By Julia […]
Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True
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 […]
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