Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

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 […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

08/25/2025 By F. Douglas Stephenson

More Stories

Uncategorized
"This Movement is Becoming More and More Creative"

"This Movement is Becoming More and More Creative"

This was posted to an email list; since the author says it can be used any way we like if it stays anonymous, I’m putting […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Day of Mourning, Protests, Called by Mousavi on Thursday

Day of Mourning, Protests, Called by Mousavi on Thursday

Mir-Hosain Mousavi, who maintains he won last Friday’s presidential election despite official assertions that he lost 2 to 1 to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is calling for […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Iran Election Fraud: Moaddel on Ballen and Doherty

Iran Election Fraud: Moaddel on Ballen and Doherty

Mansoor Moaddel, a valued colleague, is a sociologist and an important interpreter of the contemporary Middle East who has done a lot of work with […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
OSC: Protests in Shiraz, Isfahan; Reformists say they Have Documentary Proof of Fraud

OSC: Protests in Shiraz, Isfahan; Reformists say they Have Documentary Proof of Fraud

The USG Open Source Center translates articles from the Iranian press on disturbances in Shiraz and Isfahan. I conclude that the protests are not just […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Wednesday sees Another Big Protest

Wednesday sees Another Big Protest

Iran expert Ali Ansari says he expects the protests to continue, saying that Iran is in for a “long hot summer.” Me, I wouldn’t be […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Another Day of Rallies Planned; Press, Internet Crackdowns Announced

Another Day of Rallies Planned; Press, Internet Crackdowns Announced

Mir-Hosain Mousavi, leader of the reform faction in Iran who maintains that last Friday’s elections was stolen, has rejected as inadequate the government’s offer of […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
We don’t have Mousavi supporters, it’s now all of Iran…

We don’t have Mousavi supporters, it’s now all of Iran…

Report on Tuesday’s Demonstration for Mousavi in Tehran from an eyewitness. Again, I was sent this by an academic, but will not give the name […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
The Most Elegant Scene: Mass Protest in Tehran

The Most Elegant Scene: Mass Protest in Tehran

An eyewitness writes from Tehran an account of Monday’s massive demonstration for Mousavi. I am not including his name because we don’t know how this […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Dueling Demonstrations in Tehran

Dueling Demonstrations in Tehran

Borzou Daragahi reports from Tehran that supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came out in the tens of thousands to chant “Death to America,” “Death to […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2356
  • Page 2357
  • Page 2358
  • Page 2359
  • Page 2360
  • …
  • Page 3018
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Displaced and Refugees

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Middle East Monitor

Iran

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

The Conversation

Featured

Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Juan Cole

Afghanistan

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

ProPublica

Popular

  • From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming
  • Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know
  • The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
  • Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
  • Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved