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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True
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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True

Juan Cole

A revised version of an essay from a long time ago. It didn’t need much revision. Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack […]

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

06/21/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

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The Schiavo Case and the Islamization of the Republican Party The cynical use by the US Republican Party of the Terri Schiavo case repeats, whether […]

Juan Cole

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45 Dead In Continued Guerrilla War

45 Dead In Continued Guerrilla War

45 Dead in Continued Guerrilla War Baghdad Pitched Battle Kills 24 AFP reports that violence in Iraq on Sunday left 45 dead in separate incidents. […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq And Vietnam Although Martin Van

Iraq and Vietnam Although Martin van Creveld in the Boston Review is pushing the analogy between Iraq and Vietnam (with Moshe Dayan in Saigon as […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Two Years Later Tom Engelhardt

Iraq Two Years Later Tom Engelhardt pulls it all together in his essay on the state of affairs in American Iraq. It is a comprehensive […]

Juan Cole

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Hariri And Al Qaeda Really I Dont Have

Hariri And Al Qaeda Really I Dont Have

Hariri and al-Qaeda? Really? I don’t have a dog in the fight about who killed Rafiq Hariri, but I don’t find the case for the […]

Juan Cole

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Wave Of Bombings In Middle East

Wave Of Bombings In Middle East

Wave of Bombings in Middle East (Revised). The continued instability in the Middle East yielded on Saturday a harvest of deadly bombings in the region. […]

Juan Cole

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Jaafari Iraq Headed Toward Religious

Jaafari Iraq Headed Toward Religious

Jaafari: Iraq headed toward Religious Law On the second anniversary of the launching of the Iraq War, crowds demonstrated throughout the world. Among the larger […]

Juan Cole

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Two Car Bombings Of Us Troops Iraqi

Two Car Bombings Of Us Troops Iraqi

Two Car Bombings of US Troops Iraqi Politics Still Unsettled Wire service report that ‘ Insurgents attacked US troops with two suicide car bombs in […]

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Wolfowitzs Plot To Destroy Opec And_18

Wolfowitz’s Plot to Destroy OPEC And Why it was always Ridiculous Joe Conason presents some excellent reasons why Paul Wolfowitz should not head the World […]

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