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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

A Tripartite Alliance?  Türkiye shows Interest in joining Saudi-Pakistan Nuclear Security Pact

A Tripartite Alliance? Türkiye shows Interest in joining Saudi-Pakistan Nuclear Security Pact

01/19/2026 By Juan Cole

Trump’s Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism

Trump’s Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism

01/19/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Parliament Building Shelled Iraqi

Parliament Building Shelled Iraqi Military Makes Plans for If the US Suddenly Decamps Gulf States Fear Iraqi Violence Guerrilla mortar shells hit the Iraqi parliament […]

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Esfandiari Charged With Serious Crime

Esfandiari Charged With Serious Crime

Esfandiari charged with Serious Crime The Iranian government has now charged detained Iranian-American academic Haleh Esfandiari with trying to overthrow the current regime, according to […]

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Lebanon Crisis Veteran Reporter

Lebanon Crisis Veteran Reporter

Lebanon Crisis Veteran reporter Nicholas Blanford explains what is happening in Lebanon. 1. Fath al-Islam is a splinter guerrilla group established last December that has […]

Juan Cole

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Incredible Vanishing Iraqi Political

The Incredible Vanishing Iraqi Political Leadership: Al-Hakim to Iran, Talabani to US Abdul Aziz al-Hakim has chosen to seek chemotherapy for his lung cancer in […]

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Al Qaeda As Anti Muslim Movement Al

Al Qaeda As Anti Muslim Movement Al

Al-Qaeda as an Anti-Muslim Movement Still Dangerous to US Al-Qaeda, at least as a vague franchise, still exists, and remains a major threat to the […]

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Haleh Watch Dont Forget Imprisoned

Haleh Watch Dont Forget Imprisoned

Haleh Watch Don’t forget imprisoned scholar Haleh Esfandiari, in Iran. The link is to an article just out in the Chronicle of Higher Education. See […]

Juan Cole

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Beginning Of End Of Anglo American Iraq

Beginning Of End Of Anglo American Iraq

The Beginning of the End of Anglo-American Iraq Incoming British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will remove all British troops from Iraq within two years (before […]

Juan Cole

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8 Us Gis Killed 16 Shiite Kurds

8 Us Gis Killed 16 Shiite Kurds

8 US GIs Killed 16 Shiite Kurds Massacred Suhail: Iraq has 3 million widows *8 US troops were announced killed in Iraq on Saturday. British […]

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Wright Boycott Threat Puts Pressure On

Wright Boycott Threat Puts Pressure On

Wright: Boycott Threat Puts Pressure on Iran Robin Wright at the Washington Post has a piece online today on the growing pressure among US academics […]

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