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Vietnamese Press: US Military Withdrawal from Iraq a victory for Tehran (opens the original)
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I was a little surprised to see that the Vietnamese internet news agency Vietnam.vn has an Arabic service. It carried an article yesterday from the newspaper Báo Tiền Phong on the complete US military withdrawal from Iraq. The ironies are many. I am in my 70s now, so I well remember the disastrous final US withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975 during the presidency of Gerald Ford, our only unelected president. The war was really over with in 1973, or maybe even in 1971,
Annual Fundraiser for Informed Comment under Shadow of Iran War (opens the original)
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here we go again. We need your help and generosity. The United States has apparently entered another Forever War, this time against Iran. Developments since the Netanyahu-Trump war of aggression on Iran began on February 28, 2026, have been mind-boggling complex, and the American public has once again been poorly served by a mainstream media owned by a handful of billionaire oligarchs. I am one of the few American historians of modern Iran, and at this blog I am jo
Amid Hormuz Energy Crisis, Renewables generate 61% of Turkish Electricity (opens the original)
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the first seven months of 2026, Turkiye generated 61% of its electricity from renewable sources. Since hydro and solar generation have seasonal peaks, that rate may not be maintained through the end of this year, but renewables are anyway central to the country’s grid now. In July, solar electricity generation soared to 15% of the total, up by half again over last year’s average. The country’s sunny summers are ideal for solar energy generation. Already by the e
Paper Tiger: Trump's Lost Iran War is Making Everything More Expensive (Ian Masters Interviews Juan Cole) (opens the original)
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Ian Masters Interviews Juan Cole on the Iran War and Energy Crisis for Background Briefing Here are the audio and a written transcript: Ian Masters: Welcome back, I’m Ian Masters, and this is background briefing available 247 at backgroundbriefing.org, and joining us now is Juan Cole, Professor Middle Eastern, and South Asian history, at the University of Michigan, is also the author of the blog informed comment at juancole.com, and the author of Muhammad Prophet of Peace, Amid the Clash of Empi
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam (opens the original)
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Department of Defense report on the Israeli-US war on Iran admits that it has been costly, has seen extensive destruction of US facilities in the Middle East, and has run down Pentagon munitions. Since it is being issued by a department headed by notorious liar and braggart Pete Hegseth, it is hard to take the report too seriously on the positive side. But to the extent that it admits any downsides to the war on Iran at all, that admission is especially interes
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