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Saudis to invest Billions in Renewable Power in Turkiye, incl. 2 Gigs of New Solar
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Saudis to invest Billions in Renewable Power in Turkiye, incl. 2 Gigs of New Solar

Juan Cole

Cheap solar and wind can replace imports of expensive and possibly unreliable fossil gas as well as imports of expensive and polluting black coal

What is Israel planning for Palestinians in the West Bank?

What is Israel planning for Palestinians in the West Bank?

02/08/2026 By Middle East Monitor

Why Futuristic “Smart Cities” Like Saudi Arabia’s Neom are Destined to Fail

Why Futuristic “Smart Cities” Like Saudi Arabia’s Neom are Destined to Fail

02/08/2026 By The Conversation

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Oren and Solomon: Duelfer 5 Years Later: Words of Mass Distraction

Oren and Solomon: Duelfer 5 Years Later: Words of Mass Distraction

Ido Oren and Ty Solomon write in a guest op-ed for IC: Five years ago, Charles Duelfer, Head of the Iraq Survey Group, presented to […]

Juan Cole

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Obama said Wavering on Troop Escalation in Afghanistan

Obama said Wavering on Troop Escalation in Afghanistan

The NYT says that President Barack Obama is reconsidering his plan to greatly increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan, and to be suffering […]

Juan Cole

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Obama’s Major Challenges on this Week’s Global Stage; Is his own Senate the Roadblock?

Obama’s Major Challenges on this Week’s Global Stage; Is his own Senate the Roadblock?

Top challenges for Obama at the United Nations this week, including Tuesday’s climate conference, and then the G20 on Thursday and Friday. In many instances, […]

Juan Cole

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Are Khamenei and Ahmadinejad Determined to Make Iran a Pariah?

Are Khamenei and Ahmadinejad Determined to Make Iran a Pariah?

My column is out in Salon.com, on the way in which Khamenei and Ahmadinejad are turning Iran into a pariah state. I warn that if […]

Juan Cole

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McChrystal Warns of Failure in Afghanistan without More US Troops; Obama not ready to make Decision

McChrystal Warns of Failure in Afghanistan without More US Troops; Obama not ready to make Decision

There is a serious and growing rift between the Obama White House and the uniformed officers over Afghanistan policy, according to Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Karen […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei: We Fundamentally Reject Nuclear Weapons

Khamenei: We Fundamentally Reject Nuclear Weapons

The USG Open Source Center translates Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Eid al-Fitr Sermon, in which he categorically rejects the idea of Iran ever developing, possessing […]

Juan Cole

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Ahmadinejad Congratulates Karzai on Presidential "Victory"

Ahmadinejad Congratulates Karzai on Presidential "Victory"

Iranian authorities maintained that they counted the ballots of a nationwide election in June in only about 10 hours and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad immediately claimed victory, […]

Juan Cole

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Newsweek: US Intelligence Finds no Evidence of Iranian N-Weapons Program

Newsweek: US Intelligence Finds no Evidence of Iranian N-Weapons Program

Newsweek is reporting that the US intelligence community continues to assess that Iran is not working on getting a nuclear weapon. Iran insists that its […]

Juan Cole

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Ahmadinejad Spews Raving Lunatic Anti-Semitism on ‘Jerusalem Day’

Ahmadinejad Spews Raving Lunatic Anti-Semitism on ‘Jerusalem Day’

Note: Revised 9/21/09 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a sermon on Friday for “Jerusalem Day” that is full of the most vile crackpot anti-Semitism that can […]

Juan Cole

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