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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade
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Why China is Defying Trump’s Tariffs on Iran Trade

Mohammad Eslami

Chinese policy and security circles interpret the tariff threat less as an attempt to alter Iran’s behavior than as a signal to third parties

Trump’s Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism

Trump’s Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism

01/19/2026 By Middle East Monitor

What Iran’s latest Protests tell us about Power, Memory and Resistance

What Iran’s latest Protests tell us about Power, Memory and Resistance

01/19/2026 By The Conversation

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Can We All Get Along My Op Ed

Can We All Get Along My Op Ed

Can We all Get Along? My op-ed, Conquering the divide (about Sunni-Shiite divisions), appeared in the Guardian yesterday. I conclude, Iraq’s future very much depends […]

Juan Cole

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Impressions From Iraq It Was Kind Of

Impressions From Iraq It Was Kind Of

Impressions from Iraq: ‘It was Kind of Scary’ USC’s Daily Trojan profiles Sharif Ossayran, an Iraqi expatriate who went back to his home country and […]

Juan Cole

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Us Press As Stenographers For Bush War

Us Press As Stenographers For Bush War

US Press as “Stenographers” for Bush War Reuters reports that the University of Maryland’s Center for International and Security Studies released a report on Tuesday […]

Juan Cole

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Cobban On Interim Constitution Veteran

Cobban On Interim Constitution Veteran

Cobban on Interim Constitution Veteran journalist Helena Cobban has more discussion of the Fundamental Law signed Monday, its implications for Iraq, and the continued reservations […]

Juan Cole

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3 Killed 20 Wounded As Tens Of

3 Killed 20 Wounded As Tens Of

3 Killed, 20 wounded as Tens of Thousands of Kurds March in Joy in Kirkuk The Guardian reports that tens of thousands of Kurds marched […]

Juan Cole

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Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistanis Fatwa This

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistanis Fatwa This

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s Fatwa This is what was at the site of Sistani: ” In the name of the Most Exalted Grand Ayatollah Sistani […]

Juan Cole

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Turkey On Interim Constitution It

Turkey On Interim Constitution It

Turkey on Interim constitution: “It Increases our Concerns.” The new Iraqi basic law deeply angered the Turkish government by offering what it saw as a […]

Juan Cole

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Saddam Never Asked For Nukes To Be

Saddam Never Asked For Nukes To Be

Saddam never asked for Nukes to be Reconstituted: Top Iraqi Scientist AP reports that Jafar Dhia Jafar, father of Iraq’s nuclear program, is denying that […]

Juan Cole

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Kaplan On Chalabi And Sistani Slates

Kaplan On Chalabi And Sistani Slates

Kaplan on Chalabi and Sistani Slate’s Fred Kaplan has an interesting article on the recent gyrations of Ahmad Chalabi, who has been aligning himself lately […]

Juan Cole

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