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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

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Ebadi Us War In Iraq Set Back Iran

Ebadi: US War in Iraq set back Iran Human rights Barbara Slavin of USA Today profiles Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel prize winner for peace from […]

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Powers Internal War Between Cia And

Powers: Internal War between CIA and Pentagon as bad as External Wars Mark Follman at Salon.com profiles Thomas Powers, author of “Intelligence Wars: American Secret […]

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Dr. Frank: The Cure for Bush’s Neuroses: Get him Out of Office Psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank puts George W. Bush on the couch and comes […]

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More On Us Refusal To Hold Local

More on US Refusal to hold Local Elections Many thanks to readers for the great interest they showed in so serious a subject as the […]

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Wave Of Assassinations Continues

Wave of Assassinations Continues Sunday Car Bomb at Military Academy kills 12, wounds 13 Guerrillas used a car bomb Sunday to target an Iraqi military […]

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California And Florida Polls And

California and Florida: Polls and Demographics work against Bush Has W. morphed from Neo to Smith? Ron Fournier of the Associated Press has a fascinating […]

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Riot At Imam Ali Shrine Clashes In

Riot at Imam Ali Shrine; Clashes in Sadr City al-Hayat and ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Sadr City: A Sadrist spokesman said late Friday that one Mahdi Army […]

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Samarrai Calls For Military Resistance

Samarrai Calls For Military Resistance

Samarra’i calls for Military Resistance Sunni preacher Shaikh Ahmad al-Samarra’i accused Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of being an American agent in his sermon on Friday. […]

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Iraqis Working For Us Live In Fear Afp

Iraqis working for the US Live in Fear AFP continues its excellent tradition of covering Iraq from the ground up(in this case the eastern city […]

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