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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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Bush Responds To Criticism On Tsunami

Bush Responds to Criticism on Tsunami The Bush administration scrambled to repair the diplomatic damage done by the relative insouciance with which it had confronted […]

Juan Cole

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Tsunami Toll Rises Above 125000 On

Tsunami Toll Rises Above 125000 On

Tsunami toll rises above 125,000 On very early Friday morning, Reuters was reporting that the death toll in Sunday’s tsunami had now climbed to 125,000. […]

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Death And Death Threats In Iraq Some

Death And Death Threats In Iraq Some

Death and Death Threats in Iraq Some 15 Iraqis were killed in various violent incidents on Thursday, and two Lebanese businessmen were kidnapped. Dawn reports: […]

Juan Cole

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Pipes Favors Concentration Camps That

Pipes Favors Concentration Camps That

Pipes Favors Concentration Camps That the Revisionist-Zionist extremist Daniel Pipes has fond visions of rounding up Muslim Americans and putting them in concentration camps isn’t […]

Juan Cole

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Platform Of United Iraqi Alliance

Platform of the United Iraqi Alliance The Iraqi newspaper “al-Adalah” published on Dec. 23 the platform of the United Iraqi Alliance, the mainly Shiite coalition […]

Juan Cole

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Christian Muslim Violence In Egypt In

Christian Muslim Violence In Egypt In

Christian-Muslim Violence in Egypt In upper Egypt, a Muslim young man is dead after clashes between Muslims and Christians in a village in Minya province. […]

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Clashes In Mosul Samarra Massive Bomb

Clashes In Mosul Samarra Massive Bomb

Clashes in Mosul, Samarra The massive bomb in Baghdad that killed 30 persons and wounded 25 the night of Tuesday- Wednesday turns out to have […]

Juan Cole

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Bush And Tsunami Transcript Of

Bush And Tsunami Transcript Of

Bush and the Tsunami The transcript of President George W. Bush’s remarks on the Tsunami is now available. After days of silence and invisibility, Bush […]

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Tsunami Toll Nearly 70000 And Rising

Tsunami Toll Nearly 70,000 and Rising Where’s Bush? The known death toll from the tsunami keeps rising so rapidly that a daily weblog cannot hope […]

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