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2025-06-21 23:19
By Abbas Akhoundi
Nuclear hypocrisy and the erosion of international law
TEHRAN- In recent weeks, the international community has witnessed an alarming escalation: Israel’s targeted assassinations of high-ranking Iranian commanders, academics, and civilians, followed by a public threat by the President of the United States to launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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2025-06-21 23:14
Iran’s response to continued aggression will be more crushing: Pezeshkian
TEHRAN – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a Saturday phone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, emphasized that the Islamic Republic will deliver a “more decisive and crushing response” if Israel continues its acts of aggression.
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2025-06-21 22:59
By Mona Hojat Ansari
How many coffins will Trump send home for the sake of Israel?
An American recession will be the next immediate consequence of U.S. intervention in Israel-Iran war
TEHRAN – West Asia is witnessing a long-feared scenario unfold. For years, analysts, officials, and politicians warned Israel and the United States that any attack on Iran would unleash a devastating wave of retaliation from the Iranian Armed Forces and open the floodgates to a regional conflagration with international reverberations.
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2025-06-21 22:54
By Garsha Vazirian
Europe's coercive diplomacy seeks what Israel's war on Iran could not achieve
TEHRAN — As smoke still rises from the Israeli regime’s unprovoked aggression against Iran, European powers descended on Geneva Friday in a coordinated diplomatic push to extract from Tehran what their ally’s missiles failed to achieve.
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2025-06-21 22:53
Iran calls for immediate action and diplomatic solutions against Israel at OIC meeting
TEHRAN - Foreign ministers from member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) convened in Istanbul to address the recent escalation of Israeli military actions against Iran.
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2025-06-21 22:23
Aggressive attack of Zionist regime to hospitals is war crime
TEHRAN-- Aggressive attack of the Zionist regime to Iran which has been supported by the US, several European countries and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) can lead to criminal responsibility for those who have played a role, said Heybatollah Hazhandimanesh, a faculty member of Allameh Tabatabei University. Civilian hospitals were targeted by the evil regime, IRNA reported.
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2025-06-21 22:22
Attack to infrastructure is attack to whole society
TEHRAN—A faculty member of Tehran University, Gholamreze Ghaffari, pointed to the extensive aggression of Zionist regime to Iranian civilians and said that attack to a country’s infrastructure is like attack to the whole society.
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2025-06-21 22:21
Most different shelters in heart of war!
TEHRAN—It is the ninth day of Israeli-imposed war against Iran. The ordinary lives have faced changes. These changes show the lively public culture of the society even in crisis time. It has led to returning to tradition of old days, mass living of families together and unannounced parties. Shelters which have embraced the tired and anxious souls.
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2025-06-21 21:24
Washington imposes new sanctions on Tehran after unprovoked Israeli strikes on Iran
TEHRAN - As Israeli aggression against Iran escalates, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced a new round of sanctions targeting Iran’s defense sector, drawing sharp criticism from Tehran.
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2025-06-21 18:54
Three members of a family martyred in Israeli strike on Andimeshk, Khuzestan province
TEHRAN - In an Israeli regime airstrike on the Doukhouheh area of Andimeshk County on Friday, three members of a single family were martyred.
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2025-06-21 16:13
Strike on Iranian territory ‘illegal, violation of sovereignty’: Indian Congress leader
TEHRAN – The Indian Congress leader, Sonia Gandhi, has condemned Israel's June 13 military strike on Iranian territory as "illegal and a violation of sovereignty."
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2025-06-21 16:07
Former Iranian nuclear negotiator warns Israeli aggression could push Iran toward developing nukes
TEHRAN - A former Iranian nuclear negotiator has warned that continued Israeli military aggression and failed diplomacy from the United States may drive Iran closer to pursuing nuclear weapons as a means of deterrence.
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2025-06-21 15:35
Israeli cyberattacks aim to destabilize sovereign states: Iran tells SCO
TEHRAN –The deputy minister of information, communications, and technology (ICT), Ehsan Chitsaz, has said Israeli cyberattacks which target critical infrastructures in Iran aim to destabilize sovereign states.
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2025-06-21 15:20
Attacking Iran will drag the U.S. into a regional war: Former CIA chief
TEHRAN – Former CIA and Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has warned that the United States will inevitably find itself entangled in a regional war in West Asia if President Donald Trump chooses to launch a military strike against Iran.
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2025-06-21 14:33
Iranian nuclear scientist and his wife assassinated in Tehran
TEHRAN- A prominent yet little-known figure in Iran’s nuclear industry, Dr. Seyed Issar Tabatabaei Ghomsheh, and his wife, Mansoureh Haji Salem, were assassinated in their residence late last week.
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2025-06-21 14:27
Iran files complaint against Grossi with UN Security Council
TEHRAN- Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations has formally lodged a complaint with the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council against Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), accusing him of undermining the Agency’s impartiality amid recent Israeli hostilities.
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2025-06-21 13:05
Arab foreign ministers condemn Israeli strikes on Iran, call for de-escalation, diplomatic solutions
TEHRAN — Arab foreign ministers strongly condemned recent Israeli airstrikes on Iran, urging an immediate end to the military escalation and warning of dire consequences for regional stability if hostilities continue.
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2025-06-21 09:28
Shamkhani’s message to Leader: I am alive and ready for sacrifice
TEHRAN—Vice-Admiral Ali Shamkhani sent a message to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and emphasized that the day of victory is near. Name of Iran will always shine, and the smile of martyrs reflects our tomorrow.
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2025-06-21 03:45
Iran launches fresh missile salvo at occupied territories, explosions reported in Tel Aviv
TEHRAN — Israeli media outlets reported late Friday that Iran launched approximately 10 ballistic missiles targeting the occupied Palestinian territories, with several reportedly striking areas in and around Tel Aviv.
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2025-06-20 23:55
Maersk Haifa withdrawal signals Israel’s trade collapse under Iranian missiles
TEHRAN – The Danish shipping giant Maersk announced Friday it would immediately suspend all vessel calls at Israel’s Port of Haifa, citing grave safety concerns following Iran's missile strikes against the regime, launched in self-defense.
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2025-06-20 22:54
'Your deceit paved way for Israel’s attack:' Iranian politician tells Grossi
TEHRAN – Abbas Akhoundi, Assistant Professor at the University of Tehran and former Minister of Roads and Urban Development, delivered a blistering indictment of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi on Friday, holding him directly responsible for enabling Israel's attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities.
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2025-06-20 22:49
By Sahar Dadjoo
Weizmann institute's role in Israel's undeclared nuclear program
TEHRAN- Weizmann Institute of Science, which is prominently situated in Rehovot, Israel, is a foreign research establishment in natural and exact sciences. It was set up by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, a famous chemist and Israel's first President, who set up the institution in 1934. Incessantly since the institute has become an eminent site for innovation and education in technology.
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2025-06-20 22:40
Fake claims, real crimes: Israel targets hospitals
TEHRAN - As Iran faces an aggressive wave of Israeli strikes on civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, it now finds itself in another battlefront -- the war of narratives.
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2025-06-20 22:03
By Mona Hojat Ansari
The blood of these innocent citizens will drown Israel
TEHRAN - Benjamin Netanyahu, like all other Israeli leaders, is defined by bloodshed. In just the past 20 months, he has overseen the death of over 60,000 Palestinian civilians and the near-total obliteration of homes, schools, hospitals, and mosques in Gaza.
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2025-06-20 21:30
By Garsha Vazirian
How Israel's censorship regime conceals Iran's strategic gains in the war
TEHRAN — As the world’s attention turned to Tehran and Tel Aviv after the regime imposed a war on Iran in the early hours of June 13, a parallel battle began to rage in the shadows: a war against truth.
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2025-06-20 21:24
Araghchi addresses UN, says it's time to finally act against Israeli war crimes
TEHRAN - In a powerful address at a special session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi condemned Israel for initiating an unprovoked and illegal war against Iran on June 13.
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2025-06-20 21:18
No message sent to White House for talks: Iran deputy FM
TEHRAN - In a wide-ranging interview with BBC World’s Lyse Doucet on Thursday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh rejected claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump that Iran had reached out to the White House seeking a deal, following Israel’s recent attack on Iranian territory.
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2025-06-20 21:08
Nationwide rallies across Iran condemn Israeli aggression, express solidarity with armed forces
TEHRAN — Tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets across the country on Friday in mass demonstrations following Friday prayers to condemn the recent Israeli aggression and to express unified support for the country’s armed forces.
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2025-06-20 15:57
Zarif rallies public for national unity, condemns X restrictions, reaffirms Iran’s defensive posture
TEHRAN - Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called for national unity amid heightened tensions in the region, while also criticizing social media platform X for restricting his account, and reaffirming Iran’s historical commitment to defensive, not offensive military postures.
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2025-06-20 13:54
Another Tehran hospital hit in Israeli attack, Health Ministry spokesman says
TEHRAN— Another hospital in Tehran was struck by a rocket at approximately 12:45 a.m. local time on June 19, according to Hossein Kermanpour, a spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Health.