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Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts
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Protests in Iran and the Dark Memory of Internet Blackouts

Mohammad Eslami

Political slogans grew sharper, and in some places the protests shifted from economic dissent to open calls for regime change.

Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?

Could Trump’s Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?

01/11/2026 By Juan Cole

‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian Unrest is about more than the Economy

‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian Unrest is about more than the Economy

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Black Wednesdays Death Toll Rises To

Black Wednesdays Death Toll Rises To

Black Wednesday’s Death Toll rises to 150 The death toll in Wednesday’s eight bombings in Baghdad rose to 150, with one bomb in Kadhimiyah accounting […]

Juan Cole

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At Least 90 Dead 162 Injured In

At Least 90 Dead 162 Injured In

At least 90 Dead, 162 Injured in Baghdad Blast Sunnis Reject Constitution At 7 am on Wednesday morning, guerrillas detonated a huge suicide car bomb […]

Juan Cole

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Guest Editorial Myerson On Iraqi

Guest Editorial Myerson On Iraqi

Guest Editorial: Myerson on Iraqi Constitution “Federalism and the Iraqi Constitution” by Roger B. Myerson The draft Iraqi constitution deserves much more public discussion in […]

Juan Cole

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Tal Afar As Ethnic Civil War Much Of

Tal Afar As Ethnic Civil War Much Of

Tal Afar as Ethnic Civil War Much of the American press has reported the Tal Afar campaign as a strike by the new Iraqi Army, […]

Juan Cole

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No Comments Raed In Sad Sign Of Times

No Comments Raed In Sad Sign Of Times

No Comments: Raed In a sad sign of the times, Raed Jarrar and friends, the Iraqi bloggers, have closed their comment section. They were alarmed […]

Juan Cole

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No Constitution Yet Waters Of Battle

No Constitution Yet Waters Of Battle

No Constitution Yet Waters of Battle recede in Tal Afar The final text of the Iraqi constitution has still not been worked out, and so […]

Juan Cole

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911 77 And 830 On Fourth Year

911 77 And 830 On Fourth Year

9/11, 7/7 and 8/30 On the fourth-year anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the US, it is important that we take stock of where we […]

Juan Cole

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Tal Afar Stormed Threat Of Ethnic

Tal Afar Stormed Threat Of Ethnic

Tal Afar Stormed Threat of Ethnic Cleansing Grows in Iraq Iraqi troops took the lead in the ground assault in the northern Turkmen city of […]

Juan Cole

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Hitchens And Iraq History News Network

Hitchens And Iraq History News Network

Hitchens and Iraq History News Network has reprinted my essay responding to Christopher Hitchens on the Iraq War.

Juan Cole

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