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  • The Bushehr reactor last October.(Majid Asgaripour/AFP/Getty Images)
    The Bushehr reactor last October.(Majid Asgaripour/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Is the Iranian Bomb a Red Herring?

    Hersh makes the case in ‘The New Yorker’

    byMarc Tracy
  • Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma, visiting Paris in December.(Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images)
    Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma, visiting Paris in December.(Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Fashionable

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is every bit as dangerous and thuggish as his autocratic counterparts across the Middle East, yet for some reason Washington continues to embrace him

    byLee Smith
  • Israelis of Kurdish origin hold Kurdish and Israeli flags during a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy in wake of Israel’s deadly raid on the Mavi Mamara.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
    Israelis of Kurdish origin hold Kurdish and Israeli flags during a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy in wake of Israel’s deadly raid on the Mavi Mamara.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Another Israel

    Kurds and Jews share a similar history and a common enemy

    byJames Kirchick
  • Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at Al-Shaab Palace in Damascus, June 24, 2009.(Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at Al-Shaab Palace in Damascus, June 24, 2009.(Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Syriana

    Bashar al-Assad has maintained his country’s key position in Mideast politics by drawing out the peace process and turning it into warfare by other means

    byTony Badran
  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking on Islamic extremism in London last month.(Ben Stansall/WPA Pool/Getty Images)
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking on Islamic extremism in London last month.(Ben Stansall/WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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    Reading Like a Middle Easterner

    Where we see coincidences in U.S. news coverage of the Middle East, locals see conspiracies—and sometimes they’re right

    byLee Smith
  • Assad in Paris last November.(Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images)
    Assad in Paris last November.(Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Assad Speaks

    On the Golan, Hamas, and—yes—J Street

    byMarc Tracy
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