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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?
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Will the Islamic Republic of Iran be able to Celebrate its 47th Anniversary?

Farhang Jahanpour

One hospital in Tehran has received more than 70 corpses of demonstrators shot in the head and chest by security guards

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine

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Looking Back on a Low, Dishonest Decade

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Iraq To Participate In Conference Of

Iraq to Participate in “Conference of the Neighbors” Interim Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari told the Kuwaiti daily al-Qabas Wednesday that Iraq will for the […]

Juan Cole

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Safire Gets It Wrong Zarqawi William

Safire Gets It Wrong Zarqawi William

Safire gets it wrong: Zarqawi William Safire’s piece, ‘Finally, a smoking gun,’ provoked a lot of dissent among my readers, who asked me to say […]

Juan Cole

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Americana In Arabic Translation Project

Americana In Arabic Translation Project

Americana in Arabic: Translation Project I was talking yesterday about the tragedy that American culture is so little known (except through bad television shows) in […]

Juan Cole

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Tens Of Thousands Of Pilgrims Flock To

Tens Of Thousands Of Pilgrims Flock To

Tens of Thousands of Pilgrims Flock to Najaf, Support Sistani Wire services report that tens of thousands of Shiites thronged to the holy city of […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani In Secure Location Annan

Sistani In Secure Location Annan

Sistani in a Secure Location; Annan worries about Partition of Iraq az-Zaman and Deutsche Press Agentur report that UN Secretary General gave a speech Tuesday […]

Juan Cole

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57 Killed In Separate Incidents Iraqi

57 Killed In Separate Incidents Iraqi

57 Killed in Separate Incidents; Iraqi Police Targeted Wire services report that: About 57 people were killed yesterday in separate incidents in Iraq. A powerful […]

Juan Cole

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Basras Security Endangered By Drug

Basras Security Endangered By Drug

Basra’s Security Endangered by Drug Smugglers, Terrorists Az-Zaman conducted an interview with the Iraqi police chief in Basra about security there. He said the city’s […]

Juan Cole

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Sunni Cleric In Iraq Resistance Against

Sunni Cleric In Iraq Resistance Against

Sunni Cleric in Iraq: Resistance against Occupation is Licit in International Law Muhammad Bashar al-Faidi, official spokesman for the Sunni Board of Muslim Clerics, gave […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood Seeks To

Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood Seeks To

Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood Seeks to Islamize the Constitution Muhsin Abdel Hamid, the leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party (Muslim Brotherhood), is this month’s president of […]

Juan Cole

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