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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade
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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade

Mohammad Eslami

Chinese policy and security circles interpret the tariff threat less as an attempt to alter Iran’s behavior than as a signal to third parties

2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

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Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

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Carbomb Kills 47 Wounds 114 In Karkh

Carbomb Kills 47 Wounds 114 In Karkh

Carbomb Kills 47, Wounds 114 in Karkh Luke Harding writes for The Guardian in Baghdad that a huge car bomb killed 47 and wounded 114 […]

Juan Cole

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Ethnic Conflict In Tal Afar

Ethnic Conflict In Tal Afar

Ethnic Conflict in Tal Afar? A correspondent in Europe sent me the following from the Turkish press. This very abridged story from a Turkish newspaper […]

Juan Cole

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Open Letter To Madonna From Angela

Open Letter To Madonna From Angela

Open Letter to Madonna from Angela Godfrey-Goldstein I got this by email from The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and thought I would share it […]

Juan Cole

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Us Air Strikes Kill 20 In Fallujah Us

Us Air Strikes Kill 20 In Fallujah Us

US Air Strikes Kill 20 in Fallujah US air strikes on Fallujah on Monday killed some 20 persons. The US military maintained that it was […]

Juan Cole

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Has Us Been Fighting Turkmen Turkish

Has Us Been Fighting Turkmen Turkish

Has the US been Fighting Turkmen? Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul revealed that he threatened the US over its treatment of Turkmen in Iraq when […]

Juan Cole

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Bloody Sunday 110 Dead In Iraq 200

Bloody Sunday 110 Dead In Iraq 200

Bloody Sunday: 110 Dead in Iraq, 200 Wounded The Iraqi Guerrilla War erupted into a spectacular set of conflagrations on Sunday and over the weekend, […]

Juan Cole

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Us Casualties In Iraq Gustafson Erik

Us Casualties In Iraq Gustafson Erik

US Casualties in Iraq: Gustafson Erik Gustafson writes: “Setting the record straight, sort of… Last week Clive Astle wrote, “Molly (Ivins) appears to have omitted […]

Juan Cole

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Fate Of Iraqs Christians Eden Naby

Fate Of Iraqs Christians Eden Naby

The Fate of Iraq’s Christians: Eden Naby Guest Editorial for Informed Comment by Eden Naby Just after celebration of the Festival of the Cross (Aida […]

Juan Cole

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Violence In Baqubah Basra Tal Afar Etc

Violence In Baqubah Basra Tal Afar Etc

Violence in Baqubah, Basra, Tal Afar, etc. The Washington Post finally gives us a description of the guerrillas fighting in the Shiite Turkmen city of […]

Juan Cole

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