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Iran’s Samson Option: Gulf Oil Reprisals for Kharg would Crash the World Economy
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Iran’s Samson Option: Gulf Oil Reprisals for Kharg would Crash the World Economy

Juan Cole

Any attack on its oil and energy infrastructure will lead to retaliatory strikes targeting facilities in the region owned by U.S. oil companies

Dahiyeh: the Beirut Suburb at the Heart of a Deadly Israeli Military Doctrine

Dahiyeh: the Beirut Suburb at the Heart of a Deadly Israeli Military Doctrine

03/15/2026 By The Conversation

As Hell Rains Down on Iran, Western Media averts its Gaze

As Hell Rains Down on Iran, Western Media averts its Gaze

03/15/2026 By Truthdig

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Towers Of Beirut Readers Have Asked Me

Towers Of Beirut Readers Have Asked Me

Towers of Beirut Readers have asked me to what Bin Laden was referring when he said he first conceived the idea of attacking US skyscrapers […]

Juan Cole

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Elections And Religious Tensions In

Elections And Religious Tensions In

Elections and Religious Tensions in Iraq Al-Hayat reports that Shaikh Sadr al-Din Qubanji, a Friday mosque preacher for the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in […]

Juan Cole

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Other Shoe Drops Bin Laden Weighs In

Other Shoe Drops Bin Laden Weighs In

The Other Shoe Drops: Bin Laden Weighs in It is interesting that Usamah Bin Laden explicitly said that it doesn’t matter to al-Qaeda whether Bush […]

Juan Cole

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Pentagon Briefing On Missing

Pentagon Briefing On Missing

Pentagon Briefing on Missing Explosives I just watched the Larry DiRita host a Pentagon briefing on the issue of the missing explosives at al-Qaqaa. I […]

Juan Cole

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Us Has Killed 100000 In Iraq Lancet

Us Has Killed 100000 In Iraq Lancet

US Has Killed 100,000 in Iraq: The Lancet The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, reports that the US and coalition forces (but mainly the […]

Juan Cole

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Missing Hmx It Really Is Missing

Missing Hmx It Really Is Missing

Missing HMX: It Really is Missing The evidence accumulates hourly that deadly HMX explosives were at the al-Qaqaa facility on April 18 of 2003 and […]

Juan Cole

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2 Us Troops 15 Others Killed 17

2 Us Troops 15 Others Killed 17

2 US Troops, 15 Others killed 17 persons died in violent attacks in Iraq on Thursday, including two US troops. Al-Hayat reports that Grand Ayatollah […]

Juan Cole

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Breaking News Film Crew May Have

Breaking News Film Crew May Have

Breaking News: Film Crew May have Smoking Gun A US film crew has footage of the explosives at al-Qaqaa that later went missing. This development […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Officials Deny Early

Iraqi Officials Deny Early

Iraqi Officials Deny Early Disappearance of Explosives Dr. Muhammad Sharaa who leads Iraq’s science monitoring department, denies that the 380 tons of high explosives that […]

Juan Cole

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