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
More Iranians In Karbala Than Iraqis

More Iranians In Karbala Than Iraqis

More Iranians in Karbala than Iraqis? One finds these little gems in things like theCoalition Provisional Authority Briefing on Dec. 30, already on the Web. […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Firefight With Ansar Al Islam In Mosul

Firefight With Ansar Al Islam In Mosul

Firefight with Ansar al-Islam in Mosul kills 3 US troops in Mosul fought with the Ansar al-Islam terrorist group in Mosul on Sunday, killing 3 […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Corruption Concerns Delay Pentagon

Corruption Concerns Delay Pentagon

Corruption Concerns Delay Pentagon Reconstruction Projects in Iraq The Boston Globe reports that the Pentagon has canceled the process of giving out bids to reconstruct […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Barzani Kurdish Rights Must Be In Iraq

Barzani Kurdish Rights Must Be In Iraq

Barzani: Kurdish Rights must be in Iraq Basic Law; Kubba: Washington rejects Loose Federalism The two most prominent Kurdish leaders are making a full court […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Al Rubaie No Sunni Shiite Conflict Need

Al Rubaie No Sunni Shiite Conflict Need

al-Rubaie: No Sunni-Shiite Conflict; need for National Reconciliation In Nasiriyah, Interim Governing Council member Muwaffaq al-Rubaie affirmed that there are no disputes between Shiites and […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
2 Us Troops Killed 8 Wounded

2 Us Troops Killed 8 Wounded

2 US troops killed, 8 Wounded; Interpreter Killed, 8 Iraqi troops wounded Michelle Faul of AP reports that guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb at the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Mi6 Manipulated British Media Former

Mi6 Manipulated British Media Former

MI6 Manipulated British Media Former National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski called on Sunday (CNN) for an investigation into how the US was manipulated into the […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
More Hurdles For Iraqi Democracy Neocon

More Hurdles For Iraqi Democracy Neocon

(More) Hurdles for Iraqi Democracy The Neocon idea that a post-war, US-dominated Iraq would become a beacon of democracy faces more and more hurdles. The […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Alawi Saddam Will Be Tried In Secret

Alawi Saddam Will Be Tried In Secret

Alawi: Saddam will be Tried in Secret; Withdrawal Timeline for US Troops to be Negotiated Saddam’s trial is unlikely to be public, according to Iyad […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2889
  • Page 2890
  • Page 2891
  • Page 2892
  • Page 2893
  • …
  • 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