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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?
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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?

Farhang Jahanpour

One hospital in Tehran has received more than 70 corpses of demonstrators shot in the head and chest by security guards

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

01/12/2026 By Richard Drake

Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

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Iraqi Military Experts Discuss Iraqi

Iraqi Military Experts Discuss Iraqi

Iraqi Military Experts Discuss Iraqi Army, Intelligence From the USG Open Source Center, a translation of a transcript of a disccussion in Arabic by Iraqi […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Press Highlights For 18 June

Iraq Press Highlights For 18 June

Iraq Press Highlights for 18 June Translated by the USG Open Source Center– my selection of a few telling items: Highlights: Iraqi Press 18 Jun […]

Juan Cole

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40 Killed 90 Wounded In String Of

40 Killed 90 Wounded In String Of

40 Killed, 90 Wounded in String of Bombings Al-Hakim Pushes for US-Iran Talks Bombings and other civil war violence took the lives of some 43 […]

Juan Cole

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15 Dead In Shiite Mosque Bombing

15 Dead In Shiite Mosque Bombing

15 Dead in Shiite Mosque Bombing Diwaniyah Street Fighting This wire service says that some 40 died in guerrilla violence in Iraq these past few […]

Juan Cole

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Zarqawi Sought Us Iran War Abu Musab

Zarqawi Sought Us Iran War Abu Musab

Zarqawi sought US-Iran War Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was hoping to provoke a US-Iran war as a way of bogging the Americans down further and defeating […]

Juan Cole

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Over 2500 Us Troops Dead In Iraq 18490

Over 2500 Us Troops Dead In Iraq 18490

Over 2500 US Troops Dead in Iraq 18,490 Wounded Time to Leave? AFP reports that the Iraqi Civil War claimed at least 27 lives on […]

Juan Cole

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Kurdish Weekly Despairs Of Iraq From

Kurdish Weekly Despairs Of Iraq From

Kurdish Weekly Despairs of Iraq From the USG Open Source Center translation of an editorial by a pro- Kurdistan Democratic Party (led by Massoud Barzani) […]

Juan Cole

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Basra Crowd Attacks Iranian Consulate

Basra Crowd Attacks Iranian Consulate

Basra Crowd Attacks Iranian Consulate Fighting in Adhamiyah An angry crowd of Iraqi Shiites attacked the Iranian Basra consulate on Wednesday, protesting an insult aired […]

Juan Cole

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Steele On Ahmadinejad Of Arenas Of

Steele On Ahmadinejad Of Arenas Of

Steele on Ahmadinejad: Of Arenas of Time and Intransitive Verbs Jonathan Steele of the Guardian does a good piece about the controversy over Iranian President […]

Juan Cole

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