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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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EU Foreign Ministers Condemn NATO; German Opposition Attacks Merkel on Afghanistan; Kunduz Residents Furious at West

EU Foreign Ministers Condemn NATO; German Opposition Attacks Merkel on Afghanistan; Kunduz Residents Furious at West

A Taliban-set roadside bomb hit a German convoy in Kunduz province on Saturday, likely in vengeance for the NATO air strike on hijacked fuel trucks […]

Juan Cole

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Guantanamo Reading List: Harry Potter, Don Quixote, and Obama’s Dreams from my Father

Guantanamo Reading List: Harry Potter, Don Quixote, and Obama’s Dreams from my Father

Journalist Besan Sheikh recently visited the Guantanamo Bay prison facility run by the US, where al-Qaeda and other prisoners from Bush’s ‘war on terror’ are […]

Juan Cole

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Afghanistan Roiled by NATO Air Strikes that killed almost 100

Afghanistan Roiled by NATO Air Strikes that killed almost 100

Earlier this week, Taliban had hijacked NATO fuel trucks. On late Thursday or early Friday, NATO war planes located and struck at the trucks, after […]

Juan Cole

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The Great Withdrawer: George Will repudiates the Hawks

The Great Withdrawer: George Will repudiates the Hawks

Conservative columnist George Will, having argued earlier this week for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan, today says we should get out of Iraq sooner rather […]

Juan Cole

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60 Said Killed in NATO Bombing; US Aid Monies May support Taliban Activities

60 Said Killed in NATO Bombing; US Aid Monies May support Taliban Activities

Preliminary reports are saying that a NATO airstrike on an oil tanker earlier hijacked by guerrillas set off an enormous explosion as people had gathered […]

Juan Cole

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The Huthi Rebellion in Yemen

The Huthi Rebellion in Yemen

Philip McCrum writes in an guest Op-Ed for IC: The Huthi rebellion kicked off in 2004, when Hussein Badr al-Din al-Huthi proclaimed himself “Amir al-mu’minin” […]

Juan Cole

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Taliban Assassinate Deputy Intelligence Director, Kill 21

Taliban Assassinate Deputy Intelligence Director, Kill 21

A Taliban suicide bomber killed the deputy director of Afghanistan intelligence along with 21 other people in the eastern Laghman province. This sort of successful […]

Juan Cole

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Tohidi: Women and the Presidential Elections: Iran’s New Political Culture

Tohidi: Women and the Presidential Elections: Iran’s New Political Culture

Nayereh Tohidi writes in a guest op-ed for IC: Iranian Women figured prominently in the 10th presidential elections of June 2009, in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad […]

Juan Cole

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Maher interviews Moyers: The Conscience of American Journalism

Maher interviews Moyers: The Conscience of American Journalism

Bill Maher interviews Bill Moyerson Afghanistan: Maher interviews Moyers on health care: End/ (Not Continued)

Juan Cole

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