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A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure
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A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure

Fariba Amini

When they called your name at midnight, In your thoughts, morning blossomed from a blood-stained horizon.

Juan Cole on Iran War:  “Shock and Awe didn’t Work in Iraq, either” (TRT, Bradblog)

Juan Cole on Iran War: “Shock and Awe didn’t Work in Iraq, either” (TRT, Bradblog)

03/05/2026 By Juan Cole

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

03/05/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Muqtada Aide Australia Out According To

Muqtada Aide Australia Out According To

Muqtada Aide: Australia Out! According to Australian Broadcasting Co., Imam Amer al-Hussaini, an aide to Muqtada al-Sadr, called Sunday for an immediate withdrawal of Australian […]

Juan Cole

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Incompetence Or Double Dealing In

Incompetence Or Double Dealing In

Incompetence or Double-Dealing in Coalition Management of Iraq? The Coalition decision to provoke a fight with Muqtada al-Sadr’s movement only three months before the Coalition […]

Juan Cole

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Shiite Clashes In With Coalition In

Shiite Clashes In With Coalition In

Shiite Clashes in with Coalition in Najaf Baghdad: Phase II of the Anti-Occupation Struggle Begins Nine Coalition Troops Killed, Dozens wounded in Confronting Uprising [Updated] […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Information Or Party Propaganda

Iraq Information Or Party Propaganda

Iraq Information or Party Propaganda? The Guardian has a story on Sunday about how the Iraq Information Office is not just a Coalition Provisional Authority […]

Juan Cole

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Thousands Protest Newspaper Closure In

Thousands Protest Newspaper Closure In

Thousands Protest Newspaper Closure in Baghdad Some 5,000 followers of Muqtada al-Sadr marched through largely Shiite East Baghdad on Saturday, protesting the closure of his […]

Juan Cole

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Gypsy Town Razed By Militant Sadrists

Gypsy Town Razed By Militant Sadrists

Gypsy Town Razed by Militant Sadrists as Den of Iniquity The Financial Times reports, a little belatedly, that Muqtada al-Sadr’s Army of the Mahdi militia […]

Juan Cole

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Kaplan Is Fallujah Mogadishu See Fred

Kaplan Is Fallujah Mogadishu See Fred

Kaplan: Is Fallujah Mogadishu? See Fred Kaplan’s suggestive comparison of Fallujah to Mogadishu at the Slate weblog.

Juan Cole

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Deaths Of Americans In Fallujah In

Deaths Of Americans In Fallujah In

Deaths of Americans in Fallujah: In revenge for Sharon’s Murder of Sheikh Yassin? There is increasing evidence that the brutal attack on the American security […]

Juan Cole

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Kimmitt Fallujah Will Be Just Like

Kimmitt Fallujah Will Be Just Like

Kimmitt: Fallujah will be just like Baqubah On the killing of the US security personnel in Fallujah on Wednesday: ‘ GEN. KIMMITT: What I’m suggesting […]

Juan Cole

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