Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True
Featured

Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True

Juan Cole

A revised version of an essay from a long time ago. It didn’t need much revision. Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack […]

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

06/21/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

06/21/2025 By The Conversation

More Stories

Uncategorized
Sunnis Protest Mosque Raid There Was

Sunnis Protest Mosque Raid There Was

Sunnis Protest Mosque Raid There was a large (1000 to 1500 strong) demonstration in the Yarmouk quarter of Baghdad against a US raid on two […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
More Ethnic Violence In Kirkuk Ap

More Ethnic Violence In Kirkuk Ap

More Ethnic Violence in Kirkuk AP reported that in the northern, mainly Arab city of Mosul, on Wednesday assailants kidnapped and killed Adel Jabar Abid […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
30 Bulgarians Refuse To Serve Afp

30 Bulgarians Refuse To Serve Afp

30 Bulgarians Refuse to Serve AFP reports that 30 Bulgarian soldiers in a 500-man battalion scheduled to go to Iraq have refused to serve there. […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
6 Us Troops Wounded Weds

6 Us Troops Wounded Weds

6 US troops wounded Weds.; Bomb blast in Baghdad Kills 8 Iraqis AP reported that on Wednesday, a bomb hidden in foliage outside a Baghdad […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Top 5 Tasks Remaining In 2004 In War On

Top 5 Tasks Remaining In 2004 In War On

Top 5 Tasks Remaining in 2004 in the War on Terror US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld worried in a memo last fall that the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Bremer And Cpa Extremely Offended At

Bremer And Cpa Extremely Offended At

Bremer and CPA “Extremely Offended” at Call for UN Role A member of the Interim Governing Council, Mahmoud Osman, told al-Hayat newspaper that the Coalition […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Ethnic Violence In Kurdistan Boils Over

Ethnic Violence In Kurdistan Boils Over

Ethnic Violence in Kurdistan Boils Over; 3 Dead on Thursday, 5 Dead on Wednesday On Thursday, Kirkuk Police Chief Turhan Yusuf said, “Unknown attackers stabbed […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Ashcroft Appoints Special Prosecutor In

Ashcroft Appoints Special Prosecutor In

Ashcroft Appoints Special Prosecutor in Plame Identity-Disclosure Scandal Attorney-General John Ashcroft recused himself Wednesday in the investigation of the Valerie Plame case, saying he will […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Basra Massive Drug Petroleum Smuggling

Basra Massive Drug Petroleum Smuggling

Basra: Massive Drug, Petroleum smuggling; Christians, Musicians Harassed Because the southern Iraqi city of Basra (1.3 million) is under British military occupation rather than American, […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2888
  • Page 2889
  • Page 2890
  • Page 2891
  • Page 2892
  • …
  • Page 2996
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Solar Energy

Recycling Solar Panels will Reduce Waste, but We Should Repair and Reuse First

The Conversation

Congress

Congress Considers War Powers Resolution Rejecting an Iran War

Medea Benjamin

Featured

Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

Waging Nonviolence

Popular

  • Air Campaigns don't Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran
  • Iran's Grand Strategy - Vali Nasr
  • An Iranian-American View: Tehran will Never Surrender
  • Colonial Logic, not Jewish Wisdom Guides Israel's Wars
  • America's Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved