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Common Misconceptions About Iran—and the Real Story Behind Them

From Operation Ajax to Open Decapitation: The Unfinished Business of America’s Iran Problem Seventy years after the CIA helped unseat Iran’s elected prime minister in the 1953 coup known as Operation Ajax, Washington’s approach to Tehran appears to have come full circle—from covert manipulation to overt force. The history is not a prologue so much as a warning: removing a leader is often the simplest part. What follows has a way of rewriting a nation’s politics—and America’s place within it—for generations. The 1953…

Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon who championed unity and common ground

Jesse Jackson, the U.S. civil rights leader, Baptist minister and two-time Democratic presidential candidate who rose from the segregated South to become a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr., has died at 84, his family said in a statement. “Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said. Jackson, a long-time Chicago figure and an electrifying orator, disclosed in 2017 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s…

UN, Ethiopia agree on joint mission over the Tigray battle

The UN and Ethiopia have reached a brand new settlement on joint missions to evaluate humanitarian wants within the northern Tigray area, Secretary Normal Antonio Guterres introduced late Wednesday. The deal, which was concluded every week after a earlier settlement, proved unimaginable to implement instantly, however will "guarantee full entry to the entire territory and full capability to launch humanitarian operations primarily based on actual wants and with none type of discrimination," stated…