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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?
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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?

Farhang Jahanpour

One hospital in Tehran has received more than 70 corpses of demonstrators shot in the head and chest by security guards

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

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Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

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Hollings On Aipac I Saw This In Press

Hollings On Aipac I Saw This In Press

Hollings on AIPAC I saw this in the press at the time, but a reader reminded me of it. Senator Hollings is retiring and speaking […]

Juan Cole

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Johnson Fbi Furious At Leak Many

Johnson Fbi Furious At Leak Many

Johnson: FBI Furious at Leak Many thanks to Ken Henderson for the following: ‘ In a later broadcast on MSNBC, former CIA officer and NBC […]

Juan Cole

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Baldauf Najaf Standoff Helped Muqtada

Baldauf Najaf Standoff Helped Muqtada

Baldauf: Najaf Standoff Helped Muqtada CSM journalist Scott Baldauf, who has his ear to the ground in Iraq in a way that US officialdom seldom […]

Juan Cole

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Newsweek Franklin Confesses Aipac

Newsweek Franklin Confesses Aipac

Newsweek: Franklin Confesses AIPAC Under Separate FBI Investigation Laura Rozen directs our attention to the new Newsweek article by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, which […]

Juan Cole

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Pentagonisrael Spying Case Expands

Pentagonisrael Spying Case Expands

Pentagon/Israel Spying Case Expands: Fomenting a War on Iran Here is my take on the Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal in the Pentagon. It is an […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Spy In Pentagon Linked To

Israeli Spy In Pentagon Linked To

Israeli Spy in Pentagon Linked to AIPAC CBS is reporting that a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst detailed to Undersecretary of Defense for Planning Douglas Feith’s […]

Juan Cole

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Thousands Stream Into Shrine Of Ali

Thousands Stream Into Shrine Of Ali

Thousands Stream into Shrine of Ali Muqtada orders Followers to Disarm CNN’s Kianne Sadeq continues her excellent reportage from Najaf. She and her team report […]

Juan Cole

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Cole On Lehrer Cnn I Will Be On Lehrer

Cole On Lehrer Cnn I Will Be On Lehrer

Cole on Lehrer, CNN I will be on the Lehrer News Hour tonight talking about Sistani and the settlement he has reached with Muqtada al-Sadr. […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani Arrives In Najaf Dozens Dead

Sistani Arrives In Najaf Dozens Dead

Sistani Arrives in Najaf Dozens Dead in Kufa Mosque Mortar attack Abdul Hussein al-Obeidi of AP reports that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has arrived in […]

Juan Cole

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