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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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Demonstrations Denunciations In Iraq

Demonstrations Denunciations In Iraq

Demonstrations, Denunciations in Iraq over Sharon Murder of Sheikh Yassin Xinhua reports that a wide range of Iraqi political forces on Tuesday condemned Sharon’s murder […]

Juan Cole

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Sharons Murder Of Yassin Endangers

Sharons Murder Of Yassin Endangers

Sharon’s Murder of Yassin Endangers Americans in Iraq and Elsewhere David R. Sands makes excellent points about the connection between Ariel Sharon’s murder of Shaikh […]

Juan Cole

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Us Hq Receives Rocket Fire Elsewhere Us

Us Hq Receives Rocket Fire Elsewhere Us

US HQ Receives Rocket Fire; Elsewhere US soldiers Killed, Wounded Wire services report that the US headquarters in Iraq was targeted by rocket fire Sunday […]

Juan Cole

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Clarke Bush Pressured Him To Find Iraq

Clarke Bush Pressured Him To Find Iraq

Clarke: Bush Pressured him to Find Iraq link to 9/11 Dick Clarke’s interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes struck me as powerful and credible. I was […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani Un Must Not Legitimate Interim

Sistani Un Must Not Legitimate Interim

Sistani: UN must not Legitimate Interim Constitution Reuters reports that Grand Ayatollah Sistani sent a letter to Lakhdar Brahimi, special envoy of UN Secretary-General Kofi […]

Juan Cole

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Bremer Enacts New Investment Law For

Bremer Enacts New Investment Law For

Bremer enacts new Investment Law for Iraq ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Civil administrator Paul Bremer signed Law Number 64 on Sunday, altering the Iraqi law of corporations […]

Juan Cole

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Reprisals By Assassination Against

Reprisals By Assassination Against

Reprisals by Assassination against Baathists az-Zaman: Iraqi sources connected to the ministry of the interior (=FBI in American terms, MI5 in British ones) say that […]

Juan Cole

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Mudarrisi Loose Federalism In Interim

Mudarrisi Loose Federalism In Interim

Mudarrisi: Loose Federalism in Interim Constitution a Time Bomb Sayyid Muhammad Taqi al-Mudarrisi, a leading Shiite cleric of Karbala, has warned that there are explosive […]

Juan Cole

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More On Spain Check Out Bill Schers

More On Spain Check Out Bill Schers

More on Spain Check out Bill Scher’s well-reasoned opinion piece in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “Conservatives would like you to think that Spain wants to wimp […]

Juan Cole

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