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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

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

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jana Winter and Hunter Walker at Yahoo News broke the story that 11 Secret Service agents have tested positive for […]

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( 48hills.org) – We all know that President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better? Trump promised to […]

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – ( Nikki Carvajal at CNN reports that Trump vetoed the invocation of the War Powers Act passed by both the […]

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