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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”
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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian nuclear […]

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

09/13/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

09/13/2025 By The Conversation

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Russia's Annexation of Part of Ukraine Drew Western Sanctions, but UK's Liz Truss is rewarding Israel's Annexation by moving British Embassy to Jerusalem

Russia’s Annexation of Part of Ukraine Drew Western Sanctions, but UK’s Liz Truss is rewarding Israel’s Annexation by moving British Embassy to Jerusalem

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – Russia’s invasion and annexation of four regions of Ukraine exposed western double standards elsewhere in the world once again. […]

Mohammed Samaana

Authoritarianism
Laws on Veiling in Iran over the Decades: the continuing Battle for Reform

Laws on Veiling in Iran over the Decades: the continuing Battle for Reform

By Sahar Maranlou, University of Essex | – Protests have quickly spread across Iran calling for a change in the law after the death of […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Welcoming Russians Who Refuse to Fight

Welcoming Russians Who Refuse to Fight

By David Cortright |- ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The sudden mass exodus last week of Russian men fleeing military service is a […]

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Iran’s Hijab Revolt: What does the Qur’an Really say about Women in Public?

Iran’s Hijab Revolt: What does the Qur’an Really say about Women in Public?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The ayatollahs who rule Iran claim to do so in the name of Islam. Their interpretation of Islam, however, is […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran: ‘Hijab’ protests challenge legitimacy of Islamic Republic

Iran: ‘Hijab’ protests challenge legitimacy of Islamic Republic

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin | – (The Conversation) – Three weeks after the violent death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini at […]

The Conversation

Feminism
Women in Turkey, Including Turkish Kurds, stand in solidarity with Women of Iran

Women in Turkey, Including Turkish Kurds, stand in solidarity with Women of Iran

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – From video campaigns circulating on social media to street protests and singers cutting their hair on stage — women from […]

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Are OPEC+ Oil Cuts, Raising Prices, the Arab World's Way of Asking Biden what He's done for them Lately?

Are OPEC+ Oil Cuts, Raising Prices, the Arab World’s Way of Asking Biden what He’s done for them Lately?

By Hazem Ayyad | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Amir Hossein Zamani Nia, Iran’s OPEC governor, announced when he left a meeting with […]

Middle East Monitor

Authoritarianism
Young Unveiled Iranian Women Protesters Keep Mysteriously falling off Buildings, According to Country’s Police

Young Unveiled Iranian Women Protesters Keep Mysteriously falling off Buildings, According to Country’s Police

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Like Russian officials and failed diplomats, who seem to fall off buildings at a dizzying rate, Iranian young women under […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Hope for a New Day in Iran?

Hope for a New Day in Iran?

Hiroshima (Special to Informed Comment) — In 1975, when I was 16, my father’s work took our family to Turkey. It was hard parting. I […]

Nassrine Azimi

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