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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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Ukraine war pushes German homeowners' demand for rooftop Solar, Batteries, in bid for Independence

Ukraine war pushes German homeowners’ demand for rooftop Solar, Batteries, in bid for Independence

By Paul Gordon | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The war in Ukraine and the associated energy crisis are pushing homeowners in record […]

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Authoritarianism
Iran Must Release Prominent Anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah (MESA)

Iran Must Release Prominent Anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah (MESA)

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association | – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, […]

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Gigi Hadid’s Palestine Pledge and ‘Anti-Palestinianism’: The Great Vogue Controversy

Gigi Hadid’s Palestine Pledge and ‘Anti-Palestinianism’: The Great Vogue Controversy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Arab News reports that Vogue did an instagram posting about model Gigi Hadid’s pledge to donate her fall earnings […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Revolution and Exile:  A Poignant New Memoir of Iran

Revolution and Exile: A Poignant New Memoir of Iran

Review by Fariba Amini. Neda Toloui-Semnani, They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of my Parents, New York: Little A, 2022. Newark, Delaware (Special to […]

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
While world focuses on plight of Ukraine's children, endless trauma of Gaza's children should not be ignored

While world focuses on plight of Ukraine’s children, endless trauma of Gaza’s children should not be ignored

( Jordan Times ) – More than two million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded that country. The majority have been women and children […]

Michael Jansen

China
The New Eurasian Wars on our Endangered Planet

The New Eurasian Wars on our Endangered Planet

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Just as the relentless grinding of the earth’s tectonic plates produces earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, so the endless superpower struggle for […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Climate Crisis
Oil Sheikhs have us Behind the 8-Ball: The UAE’s mixed Signals on Oil underline need for US to move Rapidly to Green Transportation

Oil Sheikhs have us Behind the 8-Ball: The UAE’s mixed Signals on Oil underline need for US to move Rapidly to Green Transportation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – America is paying the price for lagging behind in its adoption of electric vehicles and in putting in more electric […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Ukraine, Libya, and the Enduring Global Disorder

Ukraine, Libya, and the Enduring Global Disorder

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – According to some analyses, the ongoing war in Ukraine appears to have finally put to rest the illusion […]

Sabina Henneberg

Russia
Russia in Ukraine: Is Turkey’s neutrality Option Viable?

Russia in Ukraine: Is Turkey’s neutrality Option Viable?

By Omar Kosh | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Turkish politicians waited for several days before describing the events in Ukraine as a […]

Middle East Monitor

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