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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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Greenstock Charges Foreign Terrorists

Greenstock Charges Foreign Terrorists

Greenstock Charges Foreign Terrorists in Monday’s Wave of Attacks Special representative of the British government in Iraq, Jeremy Greenstock, told the BBC that the modus […]

Juan Cole

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Bangladesh Portugal Will Not Send

Bangladesh Portugal Will Not Send

Bangladesh, Portugal, will not send Troops The US military’s desperate search for an international division of peace enforcers in Iraq has pretty much completely failed. […]

Juan Cole

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57 Of Americans Want Some Troops To

57 Of Americans Want Some Troops To

57% of Americans want some Troops to Come Home; 50% of Americans Disapprove Bush Handling of Iraq According to a CNN/ USA Today poll taken […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqs Neighbors Meet On Crisis Foreign

Iraqs Neighbors Meet On Crisis Foreign

Iraq’s Neighbors meet on Crisis The foreign ministers of Iraq’s neighbors will meet in Damascus in early November, with interim Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari representing […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei Warns Of Secret Plans To

Khamenei Warns Of Secret Plans To

Khamenei Warns of Secret Plans to Dismember Iraq In an interview with al-Zaman, Iran’s Supreme Jurisprudent, Ali Khamenei, said that he was extremely worried by […]

Juan Cole

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Optimistic Pessimistic Views Of

Optimistic Pessimistic Views Of

Optimistic, Pessimistic Views of Kurdistan A friend of mine in northern Iraq sent me the following recently, which I reprint with permission. It is more […]

Juan Cole

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66 Of Europeans Think Iraq War Was

66 Of Europeans Think Iraq War Was

66% of Europeans think Iraq War was Unjustified Meanwhile, a European poll found that two-thirds of Europeans felt the US war on Iraq was unjustified. […]

Juan Cole

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Breaking News Who Was Behind Baghdad

Breaking News Who Was Behind Baghdad

Breaking News: Who was behind the Baghdad Blitz of October 27? As you all know by now, car bombings targeted a Red Cross HQ and […]

Juan Cole

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Was Wolfowitz Target Brig

Was Wolfowitz Target Brig

Was Wolfowitz the Target? Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey denied that the rocket attack on the al-Rasheed Hotel was aimed at assassinating Deputy Secretary of Defense […]

Juan Cole

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