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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True
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Top Things You Still Think You Know About Iran that are Not True

Juan Cole

A revised version of an essay from a long time ago. It didn’t need much revision. Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack […]

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

06/21/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

06/21/2025 By The Conversation

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Top 7 Ways Iran evaded US Sanctions that Putin could Follow

Top 7 Ways Iran evaded US Sanctions that Putin could Follow

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The sorts of sanctions and boycotts the United States and its allies are placing on Russia resemble those applied by […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Saudi Arabia: Mass Execution of 81 Men: Rampant Abuses in Criminal Justice System, lack of Fair Trials

Saudi Arabia: Mass Execution of 81 Men: Rampant Abuses in Criminal Justice System, lack of Fair Trials

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Saudi authorities’ execution of 81 men on March 12, 2022 was its largest mass execution in years despite recent […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Not all Refugees are Equal: Plight of Palestinians Displaced by Israel Worsening

Not all Refugees are Equal: Plight of Palestinians Displaced by Israel Worsening

( Middle East Monitor ) – Financial support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is dwindling, despite the renewed mandates […]

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Human Rights
Putin is Thumbing his Nose at International Law - Betting that the Age of Impunity will Continue

Putin is Thumbing his Nose at International Law – Betting that the Age of Impunity will Continue

By Shelley Inglis, University of Dayton | – Images of pregnant women fleeing a bombed maternity ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, raised again the question of […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Russia-driven Energy Crisis leads Wind Superpower Scotland to Floor the Accelerator on Renewables

Russia-driven Energy Crisis leads Wind Superpower Scotland to Floor the Accelerator on Renewables

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scotland actually has a “Net Zero and Energy Minister,” Michael Matheson. Jane McLeod at the National writes that Matheson sees […]

Juan Cole

Russia
How The Coming Weeks Could Decide The Future Of The Ukraine War

How The Coming Weeks Could Decide The Future Of The Ukraine War

By Reid Standish | – ( RFE/RL ) – This is not the war that Moscow was expecting. Ukrainian forces have put up stronger resistance […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Authoritarianism
Syrians Watch Ukraine with Fear and Hope: International Protections Provided to Ukrainians Can Still Be Extended to Syrians

Syrians Watch Ukraine with Fear and Hope: International Protections Provided to Ukrainians Can Still Be Extended to Syrians

By Maya Ghazi | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – Over the past couple of years Syria has settled into a grim status quo: […]

Human Rights Watch

Authoritarianism
Putin’s brazen manipulation of language is a perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak

Putin’s brazen manipulation of language is a perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak

By Mark Satta, Wayne State University | – If you’ve been paying attention to how Russian President Vladimir Putin talks about the war in Ukraine, […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Comrades in Crazy: Top 4 Putin Trolls in the Republican Party, starting with Tucker Carlson

Comrades in Crazy: Top 4 Putin Trolls in the Republican Party, starting with Tucker Carlson

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Vladimir Putin is admired on the American Right as no foreign leader has been since Adolf Hitler. Today’s counterparts of […]

Juan Cole

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