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A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure
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A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure

Fariba Amini

When they called your name at midnight, In your thoughts, morning blossomed from a blood-stained horizon.

Juan Cole on Iran War:  “Shock and Awe didn’t Work in Iraq, either” (TRT, Bradblog)

Juan Cole on Iran War: “Shock and Awe didn’t Work in Iraq, either” (TRT, Bradblog)

03/05/2026 By Juan Cole

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

03/05/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Will Bush Rehabilitate the Baathists? Al-Zaman [in Arabic] is under the impression that Bush’s talks with al-Maliki in Amman will aim in part at politically […]

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End Of Academic Freedom And Israel

End Of Academic Freedom And Israel

The End of Academic Freedom and the Israel Lobby Terri Ginsberg and Rima Abdelkader survey the wreckage of a once proud tradition of American academic […]

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What Is Mission Or Russian Roulette

What Is Mission Or Russian Roulette

What is the Mission? Or, Russian Roulette Reuters reports:: ‘ BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said three of its soldiers were killed and two others […]

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Tribalfundamentalist Violence

Tribalfundamentalist Violence

Tribal/Fundamentalist Violence Guerrillas Economically self-sustaining That a tribal group and Sunni fundamentalists clashed in al-Anbar is believeable. That the tribe lost 9 and “al-Qaeda” lost […]

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Dozens Of Bodies Found Firefight At

Dozens Of Bodies Found Firefight At

Dozens of Bodies Found Firefight at Taji Dhari Urges Arabs to turn on Maliki Police found 17 bodies in Baghdad on Saturday. They found 21 […]

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Peshmerga To Guard Mps Mashhadani Usg

Peshmerga To Guard Mps Mashhadani Usg

Peshmerga to Guard MPs: Mashhadani The USG Open Source Center translates this item from the Kurdistan press: ‘Iraqi Parliament To Entrust Kurdish Peshmerga With Guarding […]

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Sunnis Set Afire Mosques Attacked

Sunnis Set Afire Mosques Attacked

Sunnis Set Afire, Mosques Attacked Nearly 100 Killed in Reprisals Muqtada Challenges Dhari The death toll in Thursday’s massive assault on Sadr City by Sunni […]

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233 Dead In Civil War Carnage Health

233 Dead In Civil War Carnage Health

233 Dead in Civil War Carnage Health Ministry Besieged 3,000 Widows Created Each Month So as Thursday began, Sunni Arab guerrillas surrounded and attacked the […]

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Breaking News Mass Slaugher In Baghdad

Breaking News Mass Slaugher In Baghdad

Breaking News: Mass Slaugher in Baghdad A string of car bombings in Sadr City and Kadhimiya (Shiite neighborhoods) wrought vast slaughter and destruction, leaving a […]

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