Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • RSS
  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2026 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure
Featured

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

More Stories

Uncategorized
5 Us Troops Killed 18 Wounded I Take

5 Us Troops Killed 18 Wounded I Take

5 US Troops Killed, 18 Wounded I take today’s New York Times/ AP report on Iraq as a very bad sign. For one thing, it […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Fallujah Report And

Fallujah Report And

The Fallujah Report and the Liberal/Conservative Divide The “Fallujah Report” prepared by the Marines concerning their enemies in the most recent big campaign is now […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish Writer

Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish Writer

Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish writer Sabah Salih has an interesting piece on the way the image of the Kurds has changed among European leftists from that […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Fresh Wave Of Violence In Iraq 5 Us

Fresh Wave Of Violence In Iraq 5 Us

Fresh Wave of Violence in Iraq 5 US troops Killed The relentless guerrilla war continued apace in Iraq on Sunday. AFP reported that guerrillas killed […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Henry Siegman In New York Review Of

Henry Siegman In New York Review Of

Henry Siegman in the New York Review of Books Amid the unwarranted outbreak of optimism about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the wake of Yasser Arafat’s […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Shock Of Week Liberals In Liberal Arts

Shock Of Week Liberals In Liberal Arts

Shock of the Week: Liberals in Liberal Arts George Will’s column this week is unusually unreflective. I don’t often agree with Will, but he is […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Elections In Iraq Will Be Held On

Elections In Iraq Will Be Held On

Elections in Iraq will be Held on Schedule, But with What Result? Or, how Khatami and Krauthammer are Both Wrong At least 12 persons died […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Supporting Nawal Saadawi Al Hayat On

Supporting Nawal Saadawi Al Hayat On

Supporting Nawal Saadawi Al-Hayat on Saturday ran an attack from a Muslim fundamentalist point of view on Egyptian novelist Nawal Saadawi. She recently argued that […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Things Are Not What They Seem

Things Are Not What They Seem

Things are Not What they Seem Department On Thursday night on the David Letterman Late Night show on CBS, actress Natalie Portman announced that she […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2846
  • Page 2847
  • Page 2848
  • Page 2849
  • Page 2850
  • …
  • Page 3086
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Iran

The Controversial Death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

The Conversation

Guns

Why Guns? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump’s America

Beverly Gologorsky

Bahrain

Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended?

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Anti-War Movement

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

Norman Solomon

Popular

  • Iran is fighting a Techno-Guerrilla War, as the US and Israel fight a Conventional One
  • Has the Arab Gulf's Balancing Act with Iran Ended?
  • How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn
  • Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues
  • The Controversial Death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved