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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade
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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade

Mohammad Eslami

Chinese policy and security circles interpret the tariff threat less as an attempt to alter Iran’s behavior than as a signal to third parties

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Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

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Hashimi: Security Agreement in Doubt; UN Worries about Iraqi Christians; Physicians Close Clinics in Karbala

Hashimi: Security Agreement in Doubt; UN Worries about Iraqi Christians; Physicians Close Clinics in Karbala

The UN is concerned about the continued flight of Christians from the northern metropolis of Mosul. Sunni radicals are targeting them and several have been […]

Juan Cole

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Guantanamo Counsel Resigns in Disgust

Guantanamo Counsel Resigns in Disgust

Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld resigned from the military commissions tribunals at Guantanamo convinced that the system denies defense attorneys exculpatory evidence that the government […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
1000 Policemen Sent to guard Christians of Mosul; Turkish War Planes Strike Again

1000 Policemen Sent to guard Christians of Mosul; Turkish War Planes Strike Again

Turkish war planes again bombed positions in northern Iraq where guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) were thought to be holedup. Iraqi authorities ordered […]

Juan Cole

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Polk: Iran falling into the “net” of a “worldwide policy”: On the U.S. Foreign Policy Doctrine and Its Dangers

Polk: Iran falling into the “net” of a “worldwide policy”: On the U.S. Foreign Policy Doctrine and Its Dangers

Ali Fathollah-Nejad interviews veteran Middle East Expert William R.Polk on United States foreign policy toward Iran: Iran falling into the “net” of a “worldwide policy”: […]

Juan Cole

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Zogby: I am an Arab and a Decent Man

Zogby: I am an Arab and a Decent Man

James Zogby: :John McCain: I Am an Arab and a Decent Man”: ‘ We are disturbed by the degree to which ‘Arab’ has become the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
October Surprise? Security Agreement said Near Signing; 3000 Christians Flee Mosul

October Surprise? Security Agreement said Near Signing; 3000 Christians Flee Mosul

Is this part of a Bush attempt at an October surprise? Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that its sources in Baghdad say that the al-Maliki government […]

Juan Cole

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100 Killed in Afghanistan; Security Deteriorating

100 Killed in Afghanistan; Security Deteriorating

Anand Gopal at Tomdispatch.com on ‘Who rules Afghanistan’? NATO is planning a crackdown on narcotics traffickers in Afghanistan. Pushtun guerrillas in Helmand Province attacked police […]

Juan Cole

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McCain: Obama Decent, no Arab

McCain: Obama Decent, no Arab

John McCain quickly shed his last vestiges of decency when he allowed his campaign to try to smear Barack Obama for having been in the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Turkish Air Strikes; Bombings, Attacks Kill 24

Turkish Air Strikes; Bombings, Attacks Kill 24

Turkish war planes hit 21 targets inside Iraq, in the Kurdish north, on Friday night. Meanwhile, bombings and attacks killed 24 and wounded 45 in […]

Juan Cole

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