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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)

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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

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4 US Troops Killed, 6 Wounded Guerrilla War Kills, Wounds, Dozens of Iraqis Reuters reports that near Baiji north of Baghdad, guerrillas killed 4 US […]

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Us Military Rules Of Engagement And

US Military Rules of Engagement and the Iraq War An informed reader sent in what I found to be a fascinating reply to my comment […]

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IRNA Carries Iran Statement to IAEA on Khamenei Fatwa Forbidding Nuclear Weapons

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Samawah Governor Fired Australian Officers Critique US Military in Iraq Al-Sharq al-Awsat and agencies: 28 deaths were reported on Monday and 30 wounded in guerrilla […]

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Kurdistan And Future Of Iraq Al Sharq

Kurdistan and the Future of Iraq Al-Sharq al-Awsat/ AFP reports that hundres of Kurds demonstrated on Monday in Irbil (Arbil), 350 km north of Baghdad, […]

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Party Over On Cindy Sheehan Bob Harris

Party Over? On Cindy Sheehan Bob Harris has a must-read meditation on what things are important to George W. Bush and what aren’t, in light […]

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Courage Of Peter Jennings As We

Courage of Peter Jennings As we comemorate the late Peter Jennings, one of the country’s great broadcast journalists, it is worth remembering, as Lila Rajiva […]

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Joke Of Day Constitution They Keep

Joke of the Day CONSTITUTION “They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by […]

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