Iran

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/10/19
  

  The Iran Revolution at 40: From Theocracy to ‘Normality’

  Forty years ago, Iranians swelled with pride, hope and the expectation of a better future.

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• SOURCE: Lobe Log
  2/11/19
  

  The 1979 Revolution: Unfinished Business In Iran

  by Shervin Malekzadeh

  One thing that must be understood about Iran, about living there, is that the Revolution is never officially discussed as a finished event.

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• SOURCE: Fox News
  1/15/19
  

  Wife of historian imprisoned in Iran speaks out: ‘His only crime is he's American’

  “He is not a spy,” Hua Qu said. “He's just a history nerd.”

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  12/20/2018
  

  A New Middle East: Winners and Losers from Trump’s Abrupt Syria Withdrawal

  by Juan Cole

  Among the losers:  Israel, Kurds.  Among the winners:  Turkey, Iran, Russia.

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• SOURCE: Princeton
  9/10/18
  

  U.N. committee calls for immediate release of Princeton history graduate student imprisoned in Iran

  Xiyue Wang, a Chinese American student, was imprisoned two years ago after doing research in 19th and 20th century archives that were legally available to scholars.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  8/3/18
  

  VIPS to Trump: Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC.

  by William R. Polk

  William Polk to VIPS: Revamp your appeal.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  7-23-18
  

  Trump and Iran’s Rouhani Threaten each other with the Mother of all Wars

  by Juan Cole

  But to have the US and Iran rattling sabers does not in the least benefit the American people.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-12-18
  

  Trump is everything Republicans said Obama was

  by Tom Nichols

  They called Obama an inexperienced, self-serving celebrity. Then their party chose Trump.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  5-14-18
  

  Trump, Iran and American Power

  by Walter Russell Mead

  The president sees Tehran’s overreach as an opportunity to arrest U.S. decline.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  5-14-18
  

  The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

  by Juan Cole

  The move of the Trump administration of the US embassy to Jerusalem is intended, according to the president, to signal a recognition of the reality that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  5-13-18
  

  Daniel Pipes says regime change in Iran is “inevitable”

  by Daniel Pipes

  In an expansive interview he gives his views on Iran, Turkey and the future of Islamism.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  5-8-18
  

  The Tense History of U.S.-Iran Sanctions, from the Hostage Crisis to the Nuclear Deal

  The U.S. has long wielded money as a weapon in a shadow war that’s been raging since 1979. Here’s how sanctions went from punitive measure to status quo.

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• 5/9/18
  

  The Implications of Voiding the Iran Nuclear Deal

  by William R. Polk

  Even if it is not immediately a world at war, it will be a sort of concentration camp of terror, enervating fear of accident or design, of death and destruction.

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• 5/9/18
  

  Trump Nixes Iran Deal: What Historians Are Saying

  Tweets, retweets, and commentary. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-3-18
  

  A Mummy Turned Up in Iran. Could It Be the Former Shah?

  Are these the remains of Reza Shah Pahlavi?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-3-18
  

  Iranians, Like Their Leaders, See Foreign Hand in Protests

  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's accusation resonates for many Iranians, whose country has long been subject to outside interference.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  8-8-17
  

  1953 Iran Coup: New U.S. Documents Confirm British Approached U.S. in Late 1952 About Ousting Mosaddeq

  Just-Declassified Documents Were Withheld from Foreign Relations of the United States Volume on Iran Coup Published in 2017.

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• SOURCE: Network of Concerned Historians Petition
  8-8-17
  

  Historians protest Iran's detention and sentencing of Princeton grad student

  Historians are being urged to sign a petition of protest.

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• SOURCE: South China Morning Post
  7-17-17
  

  Iran sentences Princeton history grad student to 10 years for spying

  The U.S. State Department accused Iran of fabricating national security-related charges to detain Americans and other foreigners.

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• 7-9-17
  

  Now We Know What the State Department Was Hiding

  by Ervand Abrahamian

  A new collection of documents shows why the US resisted for decades releasing documents on the Mossadeq coup in 1953 in Iran.