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Türkiye to host Climate Meet COP31: Can it Rise to Green Energy Leadership Challenge?
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Türkiye to host Climate Meet COP31: Can it Rise to Green Energy Leadership Challenge?

Juan Cole

Türkiye has achievements in low-carbon renewable energy. It is the site of the largest solar power installation in a European country

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Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

11/20/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

Trump’s Assault on Green Energy could Kill 1.3 million in Climate Disasters

Trump’s Assault on Green Energy could Kill 1.3 million in Climate Disasters

11/20/2025 By ProPublica

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Dueling Demonstrations in Tehran

Dueling Demonstrations in Tehran

Borzou Daragahi reports from Tehran that supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came out in the tens of thousands to chant “Death to America,” “Death to […]

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8 Killed in Tehran Clashes; Reformists Reject Recount Offer; Obama Weighs In

8 Killed in Tehran Clashes; Reformists Reject Recount Offer; Obama Weighs In

President Barack Obama has weighed in on the Iranian presidential campaign, saying that Iranian voters, who were so hopeful should be heard. He also expressed […]

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Reprint Father’s Day Gifts

Reprint Father’s Day Gifts

A reminder to my American readers that Sunday June 21 is Father’s Day. An immodest proposal for those of you yet to do your shopping […]

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Struggle over Election Results Continues in Iran

Struggle over Election Results Continues in Iran

AP has video of Monday’s enormous rally for Mousavi, which defied a government ban on demonstrations. The USG Open Source Center translates news about the […]

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Provincial Election Returns

Provincial Election Returns

Nate Silver was provided with an English translation of the official report of provincial election results by Daniel Berman and other graduate students at the […]

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100,000 Throng Streets of Tehran, Protester Shot to Death

100,000 Throng Streets of Tehran, Protester Shot to Death

VOA says Mir-Hosain Mousavi, the opposition candidate who says the Iranian election was stolen, held that supposedly forbidden and cancelled rally in Tehran after all. […]

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Clashes, Claims of Election Fraud in Iran

Clashes, Claims of Election Fraud in Iran

UPdate: The rally went ahead anyway. See above. Mir-Hosein Mousavi, the reformist candidate who alleges that Friday’s presidential election was stolen from him, was forced […]

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Terror Free Tomorrow Poll Did not Predict Ahmadinejad Win

Terror Free Tomorrow Poll Did not Predict Ahmadinejad Win

Noting my skepticism about the announced outcome of Friday’s presidential elections in Iran, readers have been asking me what I think about this WaPo op-ed […]

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Class v. Culture Wars in Iranian Elections: Rejecting Charges of a North Tehran Fallacy

Class v. Culture Wars in Iranian Elections: Rejecting Charges of a North Tehran Fallacy

Some comentators have suggested that the reason Western reporters were shocked when Ahmadinejad won was that they are based in opulent North Tehran, whereas the […]

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