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Dean, Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, books: Dispensable Nation, Shia Revival. RT not endorsement

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  1. 36 minutes ago

    Those well-read in Ottomam history will see parallels with “Anonymous” oped: a deranged Sultan managed by his Vizier and conscious courtiers

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    Hong Kong now has more multimillionaires than New York.

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    Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.

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    On a different day in a different administration...this would have been consider big news, an extraordinary statement by an American president from one of our closest allies.

    Trudeau, in rare criticism of Trump himself, says Canada needs an independent dispute resolution system in any U.S. trade deal in part because "we know we have a president who doesn’t always follow the rules": …
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  5. 15 hours ago

    Velayati is influential only because he is Khamenei’s personal emissary. He does not set the course for foreign policy

    Of course the headline is 100% inaccurate! Velayati is influential and serves as special envoy (not uncommon in many countries), but he doesn’t run the show. And if you’ve never heard of him, you haven’t been paying attention! …
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    I doubt Rouhani would go, but it’d be interesting if Zarif ends up representing Iran in that session.

    There's only one UNSC resolution on Iran. . is violating it & bullying others to do same. Now he plans to abuse presidency of SC to divert a session—item devoted to Palestine for 70 yrs— to blame Iran for horrors US & clients have unleashed…
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  7. 15 hours ago

    Who needs Bob Woodward, WH staff is starting to tell it all: I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

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  8. 18 hours ago

    Breaking the monarchy-Wahhabi establishment pact? Seeks Death Penalty for Salman al-Awda

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    under US pressure, and facing economic hardship ’s Military Has Quietly Reached Out to for Talks

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    Playing with Fire: Trump, the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry, and the Geopolitics of Sectarianization in the Middle East — new piece co-authored with for the Mediterranean Yearbook

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    Global warming is intensifying El Niño weather | John Abraham

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    Clash of the US and Chinese tech giants in Africa

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    RIP: Ehsan Yarshater a true gentleman and a scholar, was a titan in Iranian Studies; the last in a trailblazing generation but also a guide to those who will follow in his foot steps.

    Ehsan Yarshater is a national treasure, 98 years old. “Having devoted my entire life to the preservation and advancement of Persianate culture, I am thankful that through the establishment of this Center, my life's work will continue…
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  14. Sep 3

    stuff of which is made? Massacre in : One grave for 10 men and 7 year sentences for journalists who reported it

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    Ahmed Rashid: Why Imran Khan Must Bat for Civil Society in

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    Combating gender-based violence and empowering women and girls "are very much the right things to do"

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    In an outrageous return to the repression of the media that characterized military rule, Myanmar gives two Reuters journalists seven years in prison after they exposed the army's execution of these ten Rohingya men.

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    Sep 3

    Shame on Myanmar and Aung San Suu Kyi for sentencing two journalists to seven years in prison for committing journalism and investigating their military's genocide against the Rohingya: They are political prisoners, just as Suu Kyi once was.

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