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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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Cole Interviews With Chicago Public

Cole Interviews With Chicago Public

Cole Interviews with Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview Those of you with RealAudio can listen to two interviews I did with Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview program, […]

Juan Cole

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We May As Well Just Record All Our

We May As Well Just Record All Our

We may as Well Just Record all our Telephone Calls and send them to Maryland Philip Knightley and Kim Sengupta describe how the US National […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani Reaffirms Demand For Elections

Sistani Reaffirms Demand For Elections

Sistani Reaffirms demand for Elections by end of Year The NYT reports that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has again said the UN needs to set […]

Juan Cole

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High Baghdad Official Forced To Resign

High Baghdad Official Forced To Resign

High Baghdad Official Forced to Resign over Veiling Issue Az-Zaman reports that Jawad Kadhim al-Anani, appointed to a high position in the Baghdad provincial government […]

Juan Cole

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Mahmoud Uthman Igc Too Weak To Be Given

Mahmoud Uthman Igc Too Weak To Be Given

Mahmoud Uthman: IGC too Weak to be given Sovereignty In an interview with ash-Sharq al-Awsat, Kurdish Interim Governing Council (IGC) member Mahmoud Uthman (Osman) said […]

Juan Cole

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Two Us Soldiers Die In Helicopter Crash

Two Us Soldiers Die In Helicopter Crash

Two US Soldiers die in Helicopter Crash; Police General Killed AP reports that two US soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday near […]

Juan Cole

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Sunni Clerics Fail To Secure Release Of

Sunni Clerics Fail To Secure Release Of

Sunni Clerics Fail to Secure Release of 150 Imprisoned Women (AFP/az-Zaman): Sunni clerics meeting with US officers failed to secure the release of 150 Iraqi […]

Juan Cole

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Passion Of Christ In World Religions

Passion Of Christ In World Religions

The Passion of Christ in the World Religions The phenomenon of Mel Gibson’s The Passion, about the death of Jesus of Nazareth, has provoked a […]

Juan Cole

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3 Iraqi Contractors Killed 2 Wounded In

3 Iraqi Contractors Killed 2 Wounded In

3 Iraqi Contractors Killed, 2 Wounded in Mosul AFP says that guerrillas sprayed machine gun fire from a car at Iraqi contractors in Mosul working […]

Juan Cole

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