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The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up
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The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Leader, […]

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

06/23/2025 By The Conversation

No Kings!  This is What Democracy Looks Like

No Kings! This is What Democracy Looks Like

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3 Killed 20 Wounded As Tens Of

3 Killed, 20 wounded as Tens of Thousands of Kurds March in Joy in Kirkuk The Guardian reports that tens of thousands of Kurds marched […]

Juan Cole

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Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistanis Fatwa This

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistanis Fatwa This

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s Fatwa This is what was at the site of Sistani: ” In the name of the Most Exalted Grand Ayatollah Sistani […]

Juan Cole

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Turkey On Interim Constitution It

Turkey On Interim Constitution It

Turkey on Interim constitution: “It Increases our Concerns.” The new Iraqi basic law deeply angered the Turkish government by offering what it saw as a […]

Juan Cole

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Saddam Never Asked For Nukes To Be

Saddam Never Asked For Nukes To Be

Saddam never asked for Nukes to be Reconstituted: Top Iraqi Scientist AP reports that Jafar Dhia Jafar, father of Iraq’s nuclear program, is denying that […]

Juan Cole

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Kaplan On Chalabi And Sistani Slates

Kaplan On Chalabi And Sistani Slates

Kaplan on Chalabi and Sistani Slate’s Fred Kaplan has an interesting article on the recent gyrations of Ahmad Chalabi, who has been aligning himself lately […]

Juan Cole

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Cole And Astrabadi On Lehrer Newshour

Cole and Astrabadi on Lehrer Newshour Head’s up, I’ll be on the Lehrer Newshour this evening 3/8 (many of you have asked for such alerts).

Juan Cole

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Mogadishu And Deja Vu All Over Again 7

Mogadishu and Deja Vu All Over Again The 7 rocket strikes at the al-Rashid Hotel and the Baghdad Headquarters of the Coalition Provisional authority wounded […]

Juan Cole

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Basic Law Signing Fallout From Crisis

Basic Law Signing Fallout From Crisis

Basic Law Signing: “Fallout from Crisis Remains Hamza Hendawi of AP reports today on the signing of the Basic Law in Baghdad. The five Shiite […]

Juan Cole

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Mccarthyite Advisory Committee

McCarthyite Advisory Committee Threatens International Studies Just a reminder to everyone that I had asked over the weekend for help in fighting the Advisory Committee […]

Juan Cole

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