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A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure
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A Poet and an Ayatollah have Passed, but Iran, the land of Rumi and Hafez, must Endure

Fariba Amini

When they called your name at midnight, In your thoughts, morning blossomed from a blood-stained horizon.

Juan Cole on Iran War:  “Shock and Awe didn’t Work in Iraq, either” (TRT, Bradblog)

Juan Cole on Iran War: “Shock and Awe didn’t Work in Iraq, either” (TRT, Bradblog)

03/05/2026 By Juan Cole

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran betrays his central Promise

03/05/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Iraq
Iraq Arrests Dozens in Terror Sweep, Offers Help to Iran

Iraq Arrests Dozens in Terror Sweep, Offers Help to Iran

Iraqi authorities are going for the trifecta. They are finally forming a new government, nine months after the March parliamentary elections, to be headed by […]

Juan Cole

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Stewart: Aljazeera Pays More Attention to First Responders than Senate Republicans, US Networks

Stewart: Aljazeera Pays More Attention to First Responders than Senate Republicans, US Networks

The Republican Party has since September 11, 2001, been absolutely insufferable in invoking those attacks at every possible moment for every possible reason, and in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Movement for Palestinian State gains International Momentum, to Dismay of US Congress

Movement for Palestinian State gains International Momentum, to Dismay of US Congress

Palestinian authorities on Thursday protested the resolution passed by the US congress on Wednesday condemning movement toward a unilateral declaration by Palestinians of a Palestinian […]

Juan Cole

Energy
BP Platform Blow-Out was covered up in Azerbaijan: Wikileaks

BP Platform Blow-Out was covered up in Azerbaijan: Wikileaks

The Guardian reports from US State Department cables released by Wikileaks that the oil and gas giant, BP, experienced a platform disaster in the Caspian […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The Costs of War: Afghan Civilian Casualties Spike, says ICRC

The Costs of War: Afghan Civilian Casualties Spike, says ICRC

An important price of President Obama’s decision to pursue a big new military campaign in Afghanistan under the rubric of ‘counter-insurgency’ has been a spike […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Fox Management Ordered Reporters to Spin Global Warming

Fox Management Ordered Reporters to Spin Global Warming

Surprise! Management at Fox Cable “News” instructed journalists to spin reporting on climate change by casting doubt on the indisputable fact that the world has […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Domestic Crusaders and Islamophobia in Literature

Domestic Crusaders and Islamophobia in Literature

McSweeney’s is publishing Wajahat Ali’s important Muslim-American play: ‘ The Domestic Crusaders focuses on a day in the life of a modern Muslim Pakistani-American family […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
NIE Questions Progress in Afghanistan

NIE Questions Progress in Afghanistan

Congress has been briefed on a new National Intelligence estimate on Afghanistan that is said to throw cold water on the idea that the US […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: Israel’s Nukes Destabilizing to Region (Wikileaks)

Egypt: Israel’s Nukes Destabilizing to Region (Wikileaks)

Whenever any US official says that Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program is destabilizing the Middle East by posing a proliferation problem, I wince. A civilian […]

Juan Cole

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