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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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20 Bodies Found Crowds demonstrate for, against Trial of Saddam Twenty bodies were discovered in Iraq on Monday at two different sites on the road […]

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Us Abusing Its Mandate In Iraq Un

US Abusing its Mandate in Iraq: UN Rights Official Extraodinary Rendition and the Attack on the US Constitution Reuters’s Paul Tait reports from Baghdad that […]

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Allawi Attacked By Mob In Najaf In

Allawi Attacked by Mob in Najaf; In Baghdad, 2 GIs Killed Former interim prime minister Iyad Allawi and his entourage were attacked by mobs on […]

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Sistani Endorses Religious Candidates

Sistani Endorses Religious Candidates 19 Iraqi Soldiers Killed Guerrillas near the town of Adhaim, northeast of Baghdad, mounted a coordinated ambush of Iraqi troops on […]

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How Bush Created Theocracy In Iraq My

How Bush Created a Theocracy in Iraq My article, “How Bush Created a Theocracy in Iraq, is now up at TruthDig.com. It begins, “The Bush […]

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18 Gis Killed In 72 Hours Anti Prison

18 GIs killed in 72 Hours Anti-Prison Demonstrations in Baghdad From Wednesday to Friday, guerrillas in Iraq killed 18 US troops. The most tragic single […]

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Guerrillas Gather At Ramadi Us Riposte

Guerrillas Gather at Ramadi US Riposte Iraq has banned non-Iraqi Arabs from coming to Iraq in the build-up to the December 15 elections. I think […]

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Questions About Readiness Of Iraqi

Questions about Readiness of Iraqi Army New US Assault The strategy of the Bush administration in Iraq depends heavily on standing up battle-ready units of […]

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Guest Editorial Achcar Indeed They Are

Guest Editorial: Achcar & Shalom, on US Withdrawal “Strategic Redeployment” vs. “Out Now” Gilbert Achcar and Stephen R. Shalom Whatever the limitations of Rep. Murtha’s […]

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