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On the Anniversary of Iran’s Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries
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On the Anniversary of Iran’s Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries

Farhang Jahanpour

Many people optimistically assume that popular revolutions against dictators will automatically establish democratic governments

“Gently, Brother!”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36

“Gently, Brother!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36

02/11/2026 By Juan Cole

The new Axis of Resistance: Sino-Russian technological Enhancement of Iran’s Endurance

The new Axis of Resistance: Sino-Russian technological Enhancement of Iran’s Endurance

02/11/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Funerals For 67 Dead Draw Thousands

Funerals For 67 Dead Draw Thousands

Funerals for 67 Dead Draw Thousands Fears of Instability Spreading Thousands of mourners came out in Najaf Monday to attend funerals for the 54 dead […]

Juan Cole

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Ofac Reverses Censorship Policy

Ofac Reverses Censorship Policy

OFAC Reverses Censorship Policy Further to William Fisher’s guest editorial here on last Friday, good news! OFAC has reversed itself on several of its provisions […]

Juan Cole

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43 Dead More Than 95 Wounded In Najaf

43 Dead More Than 95 Wounded In Najaf

43 Dead, More than 95 Wounded in Najaf, Karbala Ambush in Baghdad Guerrillas detonated a huge bomb near the bus station in Karbala on Sunday, […]

Juan Cole

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Voter Registration Stations Attacked

Voter Registration Stations Attacked

Voter Registration Stations Attacked Ayatollahs: Shaalan Must Go According to Reuters, guerrillas in Dujail, 30 miles north of Baghdad, subjected the local voter registration site […]

Juan Cole

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Fisher Guest Editorial Us Squelches

Fisher Guest Editorial Us Squelches

Fisher Guest Editorial: US Squelches Shirin Ebadi RIGHT HAND, LEFT HAND By William Fisher Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe performs a genuine public service […]

Juan Cole

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Secular Majority In Iraq Unlikely

Secular Majority In Iraq Unlikely

Secular Majority in Iraq? Unlikely Stephen Farrell argues at the London Times online that opinion polling suggest that “secularists” will get about 60% of the […]

Juan Cole

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Karbala Bomb Blast Bomb Blast Outside

Karbala Bomb Blast Bomb Blast Outside

Karbala Bomb Blast A bomb blast outside the holy shrine of Imam Husain in Karbala left Shaikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbala’i wounded with shrapnel in his […]

Juan Cole

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Fassihi On Muslim Jewish Relations In

Fassihi On Muslim Jewish Relations In

Fassihi on Muslim-Jewish Relations in Prerevolutionary Iran Dr. Michael Fassihi writes concerning his own family’s experience of Muslim-Jewish relations in Iran: Today I came across […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Jews Before 1948 Adam Ovadia

Iraqi Jews Before 1948 Adam Ovadia

Iraqi Jews before 1948 Adam Ovadia Mansoor writes, with regard to the position of the substantial Iraqi Jewish population before 1948: ‘ I have one […]

Juan Cole

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