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Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell collegiate professor of history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation From the Persian" and "Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires." His latest book (as editor) is "Peace Movements in Islam." His award-winning blog is Informed Comment.

Obama got the Nobel because he’s a game changer

Juan Cole

Does Iran really want the bomb?

Juan Cole

The top ten things you didn’t know about Iran

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Is the media exaggerating the Iranian nuke threat?

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Obama undercuts Iran

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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks before Friday prayers in Tehran September 18, 2009.

Does Iran want to be a pariah?

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Bin Laden: U.S. support of Israel led to 9/11

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Russia helps the U.S. in Afghanistan

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After Black Wednesday, tensions between Iraq and Syria simmer

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NATO bombs — but is Taliban getting U.S. aid?

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The U.S. is spread dangerously thin in Afghanistan

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U.S. soldiers stand guard during a ceremony of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from a base in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad September 2, 2009.

Hell hasn’t broken out in Iraq

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A security official walks near a burning fuel tanker, which has been standing for more than a day in gridlock along the Chaman Pakistan-Afghanistan border August 30, 2009.

The U.S. needs Iran and Russia

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Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of Shi'ite religious political party Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), waves to supporters during an election campaign rally in Najaf, south of Baghdad January 25, 2009. There are 14,431 candidates registered to contest just 440 council seats across Iraq for the coming January 31 provincial election.

Al-Hakim’s death unsettles Iraqi politics

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Our laws condone torture

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, makes a statement in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Wednesday, May 6, 2009, after meetings with Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

What’s the end game in Afghanistan, Mr. President?

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An Afghan woman voter shows her finger to a friend after casting her ballot at a polling station in a school in Kabul, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.

As Afghans vote, American support for the Afghan war collapses

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Fire fighters respond to a bombing near the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009.

Baghdad erupts once again

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What is Obama defending in Afghanistan?

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, and Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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In this citizen photograph taken Sunday, June 28, 2009, a supporter of pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, holds paper signs in Persian, reading " measure is people's vote", during a gathering at Ghoba Mosque in Tehran, Iran. Several thousand protesters who had gathered near north Tehran's Ghoba Mosque clashed with riot police in Tehran on Sunday in the country's first major post-election unrest in four days.

Mass protests in Iran crushed for now

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Leading challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, left, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on June 12, 2009.

Ahmadinejad reelected under cloud of fraud

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Saad Hariri, one of the top leaders of the pro-Western coalition, shows his ink-stained finger before casting his vote at a polling station in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, June 7, 2009. Lebanese streamed to their hometowns on the Mediterranean coast and high up in the mountains Sunday to vote in crucial elections that could unseat a pro-Western government and install one dominated by the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah.

Obama wins an election in the Middle East

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A souvenir shop-owner displays a recently-made metal plaque for sale to tourists reading "Obama, New Tutankhamun of the World", in the Khan el-Khalili market area of Cairo, Egypt Thursday, May 28, 2009, ahead of President Barack Obama's planned June 4 speech in Cairo on U.S. relations with the Muslim world. The sign refers to Tutankhamun who was one of the last Pharaohs of Egypt's 18th Dynasty and ruled during a crucial, turmoil-filled period in Egyptian history. Hieroglyphics at base of plaque were claimed by the vendor to spell the name "Obama".

Obama, Muslim-world rock star

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