Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Islamic Republic […]
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Why Tehran chose to attack Israel
( The National ) – Iran is the first Middle Eastern state in the 21st century to strike Israel directly, having fired a massive salvo […]
Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
( Code Pink ) – On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary […]
Türkiye’s Hezbollah Dilemma
Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – As the conflict in Lebanon intensifies, Türkiye finds itself walking a diplomatic tightrope. While it has openly condemned […]
Will the Forever Wars Ever End? The War on Terror 23 Years Later
( Tomdispatch.com ) – September marked the 23rd anniversary of al-Qaeda’s 2001 attacks on the United States, which left nearly 3,000 people dead. For the […]
Protesting Wake Forest University’s Cancellation of a Lecture by Professor Rabab Abdelhadi
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Dear President Wente and Provost Gillespie: We write on behalf of the Middle […]
American Women vs. Maga Men: The 2024 Election is a Gender Battle where Abortion Rights are the Flashpoint
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – American women reject Trump. From his criminalizing of abortion to the ridiculing of unmarried women, from his predatory […]
Fundraising Appeal: Threatened Israeli (SLAPP?) Lawsuit attempts to bankrupt Informed Comment
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Running a small independent publication on controversial issues is fraught with problems. One of them is that people threaten to […]
Protesting Cornell University’s Suspension and threatened Deportation of graduate Student Momodou Taal for Protest
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Dear Interim President Kotlikoff, Provost Bala, Dr. Lombardi and Ms. Liang: We write on […]
Hezbollah is not Finished Yet
( The National ) – The assassination of Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut will not diminish the group he once led. The killing […]
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