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Yesterday 20:50
By staff writer
Once again, Israel bombs populated Lebanese villages with prohibited white phosphorus
TEHRAN — Israeli forces launched an extensive wave of artillery shelling and airstrikes across southern Lebanon overnight into Saturday, saturating several residential neighborhoods with banned white phosphorus munitions.
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Yesterday 20:49
By Ali Minabi
Trump destroys U.S. diplomacy and global trust in America
TEHRAN — From using negotiations as a pretext for surprise attacks to abducting and assassinating heads of state and reneging on American commitments, including his own, Trump’s damage to U.S. diplomacy will remain evident for many years to come.
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Yesterday 20:48
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
The dollar's suicide note: How Washington's financial arrogance is destroying its own empire
TEHRAN — When the US Treasury announced on August 20 it would increase buybacks of long-dated bonds, the financial world should have been alarmed. Instead, markets reacted with the only rational response: they sold the dollar.
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2026-08-22 21:12
By Batool Subeiti
The constants and variables in the political dynamics of West Asia
LONDON — The policy of the West Asia region is drawn based on political dynamics. These are either constants that are not subject to change or variables. This is especially with regard to the political situation in Lebanon and Syria, and the regional or international sponsorship of political directions.
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2026-08-22 21:11
By staff writer
Israeli troops kill father of martyrs in Jenin; settlers murder teenager near Hebron
TEHRAN — Israeli forces and armed settler groups launched a synchronized wave of violence across the occupied West Bank on August 21 and 22. The raids stretched from Jenin to Hebron. Palestinian communities face an accelerating campaign of territorial conquest and lethal force.
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2026-08-22 21:10
By Ali Minabi
What follows Kushner’s meetings with al-Hayya and Netanyahu?
TEHRAN – Gaza remains caught between Israeli intransigence and electoral calculations, U.S. pressure, and Palestinian efforts to preserve the agreement. This is keeping the region in a state of neither war nor peace until the outcome of the upcoming elections becomes clear.
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2026-08-22 20:55
By Ranjan Solomon
When the judge is punished: America, the veto and the unravelling of international law
“When law becomes subordinate to power, justice becomes a privilege rather than a right”
GOA, India - There is something profoundly disturbing about the spectacle now unfolding before the world. The United States, which has for decades presented itself as the principal architect and defender of the rules-based international order, is increasingly behaving as though international rules are legitimate only when they serve American power.
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2026-08-21 19:40
Yemeni drones strike Aramco oil facilities, Najran airport
TEHRAN — Yemeni Armed Forces launched back-to-back drone strikes on August 20, targeting a sensitive military installation at Najran Airport and a major Aramco oil facility in southern Saudi Arabia.
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2026-08-21 19:39
By Ali Minabi
Palestine and genocide: Redefining resilience
TEHRAN – Since Trump’s son-in-law and U.S. envoy Jared Kushner met fugitive war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv several days ago, the Israeli regime has killed more Palestinians.
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2026-08-19 18:27
By staff writer
Israeli troops shoot children and abduct medical workers in West Bank
TEHRAN — Israeli forces and settler militias are executing an aggressive campaign of violence across the West Bank.
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2026-08-19 18:11
By Martin Love
MAGA stands for “Make America Grotesque Again”
NORTH CAROLINA - A university town in central North Carolina not too far from Washington is a fair place to get a read on the U.S. zeitgeist, especially since Trump began a grotesque kinetic war on Iran on February 28th.
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2026-08-19 17:45
By Elaheh Tahmasebi
Post-Maduro Venezuela: Washington’s lab for Latin America
TEHRAN – The ongoing transformations in Venezuela have placed the country in a state suspended between structural collapse and managed transition; a situation that neither indicates the complete downfall of the previous structure nor points to the establishment of a national and independent sovereignty.
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2026-08-19 17:12
By Ali Minabi
What chances does the Cairo agreement on Gaza have of succeeding?
TEHRAN – Gaza’s residents are waiting eagerly for the genocide to come to an end and a sense of security prevail, but Israel’s refusal to compromise and the challenges of implementing the Cairo agreement make a quick breakthrough unlikely.
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2026-08-18 20:44
By Kurosh Alyani
Sarah’s war against the rest of civilization
TEHRAN – Sarah Little writes in The Economist about a “war on women” in Afghanistan. If one looks only at the Taliban’s regulations concerning women, the phrase does not seem unreasonable. But this is precisely where the problem begins. Why is what the Taliban does through law, policing, and direct command described as “war,” while what dominant economic structures in Western societies do through media, culture, fashion, markets, the beauty industry, and the production of desire is rarely placed within the realm of war, coercion, or even power?
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2026-08-18 20:44
By Ali Minabi
Iraqi resistance group sets conditions over weapons
Kataeb Hezbollah demands full exit of US forces, dissolution of Peshmerga and expulsion of Turkish forces in northern Iraq
TEHRAN – An official from the Iraqi resistance group Kataeb Hezbollah has issued a sharply worded statement setting out conditions for any future cooperation with the Iraqi government over the question of weapons held by the resistance forces.
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2026-08-18 20:43
By staff writer
Trump’s threat to bomb Oman triggers backlash across Arab world and US
TEHRAN — Donald Trump triggered international backlash after threatening military strikes against Oman, reportedly punishing the Persian Gulf nation for negotiating a maritime traffic arrangement with Iran.
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2026-08-17 22:00
Iran demands global tribunals after Ben-Gvir urges daily slaughter quota in Gaza
TEHRAN — The horrifying proposal to institutionalize the slaughter of Palestinians has ripped away any remaining diplomatic veneer shielding Israel.
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2026-08-17 20:03
By staff writer
Israel expands assaults across Lebanon’s Jabal Amel despite US mediation claims
TEHRAN — The Israeli military unleashed a large wave of violence across southern Lebanon on Monday. According to reports from local media, drones dropped explosives on the Ali al-Taher heights. Artillery batteries pounded Mansouri, Shihin, and Wadi al-Salouqi. Two artillery shells struck the terrain between Zebqin and Yater. A reconnaissance drone dropped a sound bomb on Haddatha, followed by intense machine gun fire directed at local residents.
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2026-08-16 20:47
By staff writer
Yemen strikes Saudi-linked mercenary concentrations in Mokha
TEHRAN — The Yemeni Armed Forces have shattered the illusion of a frozen conflict by unleashing a devastating wave of ballistic missiles and drones against Saudi-affiliated military concentrations across Mokha and Marib.
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2026-08-16 20:10
By Ali Minabi
Historic Zionist perceptions of Lebanon
TEHRAN – In southern Lebanon, the occupying Israeli regime is erasing the region’s entire civilizational landscape by demolishing and bulldozing homes, buildings, graves and trees.
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2026-08-16 18:55
Ben-Gvir says Palestinian detainees should be hanged ‘one by one’
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says he will do everything in his power to secure the execution of Palestinian prisoners, saying he hopes they will be hanged "one by one."
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2026-08-15 21:25
By Ali Minabi
New Israeli massacres in southern Lebanon
TEHRAN – The Israeli regime has waged a new round of aggression in Lebanon. The latest massacre has killed a family with women and children among the casualties.
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2026-08-15 21:12
By Garsha Vazirian
The world not thankful to Iran for its sacrifices
Iran and the Resistance Front have been paying the price to keep the “Grater Israel” project incomplete
TEHRAN — Close your eyes and trace the borders Washington and Tel Aviv intended to draw.
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2026-08-15 21:03
By staff writer
Katz’s covert plan for full annexation of West Bank
TEHRAN - Israel Katz, the so-called Israeli defense minister, announced on Friday that he had instructed the military to draft a plan to transfer enforcement powers for civilian matters in the occupied West Bank from the army to the police, a move that is viewed as a full annexation of the West Bank.
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2026-08-14 20:54
By Garsha Vazirian
‘Food Truck One,’ expandable decoys, and the propaganda ruin
TEHRAN — The official narrative survived for a month. It portrayed an American president boarding Air Force One on July 8 following a NATO summit in Ankara, waving to the cameras, and flying west. The reality was far more humiliating.
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2026-08-14 19:18
By staff writer
From Trump to Lebanon: Delusion of decision-making
TEHRAN – When politics loses touch with reality, facts can quickly give way to fiction. The Trump model offers one example; its echoes in Lebanon offer another.
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2026-08-14 19:01
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
A food truck, a failed war, and the humiliation of a superpower
TEHRAN - Never has a president subjected the United States to such global humiliation. It is a bitter pill to swallow for a nation accustomed to projecting strength, but the facts on the ground paint a picture of a strategic disaster of historic proportions.
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2026-08-10 19:38
By staff writer
Why is Yemen confronting Saudi Arabia?
TEHRAN – Operations by Yemeni Armed Forces targeting Saudi Aramco facilities and imposing a naval blockade on Saudi-linked shipping aim to pressure Riyadh to lift its blockade on Yemen and, ultimately, secure Yemeni sovereignty.
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2026-08-10 19:23
By Seyda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Iran is not Venezuela: Hormuz Strait and limits of US power
TEHRAN - The Americans are masters of grand pronouncements and miserable failures in execution.
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2026-08-09 21:02
By Batool Subeiti
The war united the nation in defending Iran
LONDON — Relying on divisions within Iran to bring about a coup against the system is merely an illusion. The war against Iran united the people's position more than ever. Before the war, the vertical division was based on the impact of the sanctions on the economic situation, which potentially led to great inflation.