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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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Afghanistan
Majority of US Veterans doubt Value of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria Wars: Pew

Majority of US Veterans doubt Value of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria Wars: Pew

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Pew Research Center opinion poll conducted among 1,284 veterans who had served since 2001 (which also polled 1,087 American […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Juan Cole on the Prophet Muhammad in War and Peace (Emir-Stein Center Video)

Juan Cole on the Prophet Muhammad in War and Peace (Emir-Stein Center Video)

Emir-Stein Center | Juan Cole on Muhammad | – Click below to go to YouTube and watch a 7-minute video–with maps, historical graphics and animation– […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran in Crosshairs Again: It is Always - Always - about the Oil

Iran in Crosshairs Again: It is Always – Always – about the Oil

By Michael T. Klare | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – It’s always the oil. While President Trump was hobnobbing with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman […]

Michael T. Klare

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu vows Never to dismantle Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine

Israeli PM Netanyahu vows Never to dismantle Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed never to dismantle Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Speaking yesterday at an event in the […]

Middle East Monitor

European Union
180 Gigs of Offshore Wind: Europe May Build 10 Artificial North Sea "Energy Islands"

180 Gigs of Offshore Wind: Europe May Build 10 Artificial North Sea “Energy Islands”

By Kennedy Nyavaya | – Several European grid operators have proposed to build at least ten artificial “energy islands” as wind power hubs in the […]

Clean Energy Wire

Far Right
Why Tucker Carlson is Wrong to attack Ilhan Omar for her Dissent

Why Tucker Carlson is Wrong to attack Ilhan Omar for her Dissent

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tucker Carlson has veered further and further toward unadorned white nationalism as Rupert Murdoch’s declining “Fox News” has failed to […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran's leader is losing his grasp on power. Does this mean diplomacy is doomed?

Iran’s leader is losing his grasp on power. Does this mean diplomacy is doomed?

( The Conversation) – Iran’s announcement last Sunday that it would break the limit on uranium enrichment agreed to in the nuclear deal with world […]

Shahram Akbarzadeh

Donald Trump
Don't Expect Trump to do a North Korean-style Pivot in his Relations with Iran

Don’t Expect Trump to do a North Korean-style Pivot in his Relations with Iran

Originally published in Hankyoreh. (Foreign Policy in Focus ) – It was not very long ago that Donald Trump was calling North Korean leader Kim […]

John Feffer

Climate Change
Next, Our Food:  Climate Emergency Reducing Crop Yields, Global Food Supplies

Next, Our Food: Climate Emergency Reducing Crop Yields, Global Food Supplies

By Deepak Ray | – Farmers are used to dealing with weather, but climate change is making it harder by altering temperature and rainfall patterns, […]

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