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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program
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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

08/29/2025 By The Conversation

From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

08/29/2025 By Norman Solomon

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Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas

Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli state by now has a long and sanguinary history of murdering writers and journalists in cold blood. In […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
As Summer Temperatures Soar, Iran’s Water Crisis Worsens

As Summer Temperatures Soar, Iran’s Water Crisis Worsens

As dams dry and rivers vanish, Iran’s capital faces its fiercest thirst in modern memory. Written byReza Talebi ( Globalvoices.org ) – Soaring summer temperatures […]

Global Voices

Israel/ Palestine
Why the Gaza War won’t End: Israel’s Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing

Why the Gaza War won’t End: Israel’s Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing

By Seth Cantey | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Israel’s global standing has deteriorated throughout the war in Gaza, but in recent weeks […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike

Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rubaie Sawaid, writing for the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, reports that on Saturday enormous crowds demonstrated in Israel against the […]

Juan Cole

Espionage
Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

By Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv for ProPublica | – ( ProPublica ) – In the early morning hours of June 13, a commando team […]

ProPublica

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

By Yaron Peleg, University of Cambridge (The Conversation) – When the Zionist movement began to gather pace a century ago, many Jewish supporters wanted not […]

The Conversation

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Why is Israel Playing Spoiler in the New Syria?

Why is Israel Playing Spoiler in the New Syria?

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Last week, Israel launched the latest of some 300 raids into Syria in the past few months. Some […]

Mohammed Samaana

Omar Khayyam
“Those who Stood before the Tavern” – FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:3

“Those who Stood before the Tavern” – FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:3

Omar Khayyam Persian Poetry

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

By Amin Saikal, The University of Western Australia For all its claims of being a democracy that adheres to international law and the rules of […]

The Conversation

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