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Israel and Iran attack Rep. Omar for the same comments
Iranian state media and the Israeli ambassador have criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar (D–Minn.) for her comments supporting the International Criminal Court. Omar had said that the Hague-based court was...
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US-funded media spreads bizarre conspiracy theory about Shi'a Muslims
The U.S. government’s Arabic-language news channel amplified a conspiracy theory about a Shi’a Muslim foundation so bizarre that even the U.S. State Department disavowed it on Saturday. The...
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Conservatives throw weight behind repealing Iraq War AUMF
Republicans and conservatives are increasingly showing support for rolling back war powers, as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on the Iraq War authorization this coming Thursday. Both...
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Rep. Massie: sell off the U.S. embassy compound, get out of Iraq
A Republican congressman called for Congress to repeal the Iraq War authorization and close the massive U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday. Both the war authorization and the embassy...
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Neocons take aim at Turkey
Prominent neoconservatives and other hawks have set their sights on Turkey, announcing a new Washington-based group “in response to Turkey’s recent turn away from democracy and toward...
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Haphazard US crackdown on websites included Iranian dissidents
This article was co-published with The Intercept There is no love lost between Ayatollah Sadiq Shirazi and the Iranian government. In 2018, authorities arrested the dissident cleric’s son for calling...
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Biden-linked expert backs regime change at event sponsored by Iranian...
Former defense official Michèle Flournoy called for regime change in Iran at a conference on Saturday sponsored by the Mojahedin-e Khalq — an Iranian militant group once listed as a terrorist...
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Surprise: no one 'bad guy' responsible for violence in the Middle East
Americans love a good-guy, bad-guy story — especially in the Middle East. In the 1980s, Muammar Ghaddafi was “the mad dog of the Middle East.” Two decades later, overthrowing Saddam Hussein was...
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Trump Administration knew Soleimani killing risked war with Iran
The Trump administration acknowledged that assassinating Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January 2020 could have escalated into war with Tehran, a newly declassified memo shows. Last week, the Biden...
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No, the U.S. military is not 'leaving' Iraq
Iraqi and U.S. officials have been talking about the end of a U.S. combat mission in Iraq, but they appear to be changing definitions rather than trying to withdraw troops. On Thursday afternoon,...
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Defending American democracy from Washington’s 'friends'
Headline after headline has been coming out about attacks on American democracy by Middle Eastern states — and most of them are purportedly America’s friends. An Israeli security firm may have spied...
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US sanctions Syrian rebel group for crimes against Kurds
The Biden administration has imposed sanctions on Syrian rebels for their involvement in the Turkish occupation of northern Syria on Wednesday. The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control...
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Iraqis fear for their lives after botched pro-Israel conference in Erbil
A conference of Iraqis calling for diplomatic relations with Israel held last week has devolved into a fiasco as several participants now claim they were duped into attending. The conference was held...
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How Dems' plan to grill Pompeo on the Soleimani strike fell apart
Democrats finally had their chance to question Mike Pompeo. Almost two months after the Trump administration started an armed conflict with Iran, the secretary of state finally agreed to attend a...
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US-backed Middle East states cozy up to Russia during Ukraine invasion
The United States and Europe have united in backing Ukraine against a Russian invasion, offering Kyiv weapons and diplomatic support as Russia massed troops along the border. But in the Middle East,...
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Dr. Oz and the battle over the future of Islam in the GOP
There’s no more recognizable icon of Muslim-American’s political rise than Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. The two Muslim congresswomen from the Midwest, both part of “The Squad” after their election in...
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Die for Dubai? Senators in dark about reported UAE security pact
The Biden administration has reportedly offered the United Arab Emirates a guarantee of military protection — one that could commit the United States to another war in the Middle East — as part of a...
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After ISIS attacked Iran, journalists pushed false flag theory
Hamid Badakhshan walked into the Shahcheragh Shrine in Shiraz and murdered 15 worshippers with a gun last week. He was shot, and died in Iranian police custody. ISIS claimed the attack as part of its...
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Dear media: How many nuclear bombs does Iran have?
Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons. North Korea and Israel do. But English-language media cares more about Iran’s non-existent atom bomb than North Korea’s real nuclear missiles, data suggests, while...
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Saudi media pushes homophobic conspiracy theories about Biden
Pro-government media in Saudi Arabia is pushing an anti-American, homophobic disinformation campaign. Saudi journalists are falsely reporting that President Joe Biden has declared America “the nation...
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