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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade
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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade

Mohammad Eslami

Chinese policy and security circles interpret the tariff threat less as an attempt to alter Iran’s behavior than as a signal to third parties

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2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

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Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

Trump’s $1.5 trillion Gamble: Will Endless Conflict win Midterm Votes?

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Iranian Diplomat Says Us Attack On

Iranian Diplomat Says Us Attack On

Iranian Diplomat Says a US attack on Najaf will Lead to Widespread Crisis throughout Iraq From the ISNA website, via by BBC World Monitoring: Iranian […]

Juan Cole

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40 Killed In Another Bloody Iraq

40 Killed In Another Bloody Iraq

40 Killed in Another Bloody Iraq Saturday At Least 5 US Soldiers Dead; Unknown US Casualties in Haswa, Kut Boat Bombers Strike Basra Vessels, Kill […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtada Al Sadr Warns He Will Unleash

Muqtada Al Sadr Warns He Will Unleash

Muqtada al-Sadr Warns He will Unleash Kamikaze Bombers if Najaf is Attacked Bulgarian Soldier Killed in Clash at Karbala ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of […]

Juan Cole

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Is Chalabi Out Brahimi Plan Advances

Is Chalabi Out Brahimi Plan Advances

Is Chalabi Out? Brahimi Plan advances, Baathists Rehabilitated The intrepid Robin Wright and Walter Pincus at the Washington Post argue that the Brahimi plan for […]

Juan Cole

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What Is To Be Done In Iraq Polk Guest

What Is To Be Done In Iraq Polk Guest

What is to Be Done in Iraq?: Polk Guest Commentary By William R. Polk ‘ While C.I.A. director George J. Tenet struggles in Washington to […]

Juan Cole

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Commentary On Senate Committee On

Commentary On Senate Committee On

Commentary on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing on Iraq: Nathan Brown Guest Commentary by Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University http://home.gwu.edu/~nbrown This week’s […]

Juan Cole

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Situation Around Najaf Remains Tense

Situation Around Najaf Remains Tense

Situation Around Najaf remains Tense Muqtada al-Sadr and his movement remain defiant. In Basra, about 800 Sadrists held a demonstration, led by Shaikh Abdul Sattar […]

Juan Cole

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Hitchens Questions On Iraq Reader Sent

Hitchens Questions On Iraq Reader Sent

Hitchens Questions on Iraq A reader sent me these questions that he said Christopher Hitchens had posed. I then found them at his web site. […]

Juan Cole

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More On Senate Foreign Relations

More On Senate Foreign Relations

More on Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony: Cole and Dodge Here are oral comments of myself and Toby Dodge last Tuesday at the Senate Committee […]

Juan Cole

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