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Today 21:44
By staff writer
Regional alliance crucial to counter Israel
TEHRAN - Last Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced that his country had accepted the U.S. ceasefire proposal to end the war in Gaza. The very next day, Israel attempted to assassinate Hamas leaders while they were in Qatar’s capital to discuss that same proposal.
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Today 19:10
Trump confirms killing three Venezuelans, says ‘We knocked off three boats’
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that U.S. military forces had once again targeted a vessel allegedly linked to Venezuelan drug traffickers, killing three people in international waters, in what Washington describes as a broader campaign against “narcoterrorists.”
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2025-09-13 19:01
By Matin Jamshidi
Israel is seeking to become hegemon in the region
TEHRAN - After committing genocide for 23 months in Gaza with Western support, especially from the United States, and killing a number of top Hamas leaders in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, and finally attempting to assassinate Hamas chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya in Doha, Israel has proven that it is seeking to become a hegemon in the region with U.S. backing.
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2025-09-12 20:35
By Garsha Vazirian
The widening gyre: Charlie Kirk's assassination and America's spiral into political violence
TEHRAN – In the shattered aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, America stares into a mirror cracked by its own hand. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer,” William Butler Yeats intoned in “The Second Coming,” evoking a world where order dissolves into chaos.
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2025-09-11 18:41
Exclusive: Trump okayed Israel’s strike on Hamas leadership in Doha, Aleef Sabbagh says
Host countries must know Israel ignores state sovereignty when backed by US, political expert says
TEHRAN- As the repercussions of Israel’s latest strike targeting Hamas leaders in Doha reverberate across the region, questions are mounting over the future of ceasefire negotiations and Qatar’s role as a trusted mediator.
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2025-09-10 17:27
United Islamic action needed to confront Israel’s reckless behavior: Iran parliament speaker
TEHRAN – Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said coordinated and united action by the Islamic world is the only effective way to counter the reckless behavior of the Zionist regime.
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2025-09-10 03:58
By Shahrokh Saei
Trump’s trap: Fueling Israel’s Qatar attack and advancing 'Greater Israel' vision
TEHRAN – International condemnation is mounting following a deadly Israeli airstrike on a residential area in Qatar’s capital, Doha.
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2025-09-08 14:18
Protests in Brazil: “Israel Out of Palestinian Lands, Trump Out of Latin America”
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of major cities in Brazil, including São Paulo, chanting “Israel Out of Palestinian Lands, Trump Out of Latin America” on September 7, Brazil’s Independence Day. What is usually a day of patriotic celebrations and military parades turned into a platform for international solidarity.
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2025-09-06 22:25
Leader’s advisor says Trump following Hitler’s path
TEHRAN – Ali Akbar Velayati, Senior Advisor on International Affairs to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has likened the U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent foreign policies to the aggressive actions of Adolf Hitler prior to World War II, warning that history may be repeating itself.
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2025-09-06 20:44
By Shahrokh Saei
Department of War: Trump reveals America’s true face
TEHRAN — In a move that has sparked fierce criticism, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War. The decision revives a title last used in the 1940s, before President Harry Truman restructured the military into the modern Pentagon system following World War II.
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2025-09-06 20:21
By Garsha Vazirian
How Trump’s ‘drug war’ masks his drive for war against Venezuela
TEHRAN – In the choppy seas of international intrigue, truth can sink faster than a targeted vessel. When the U.S. military destroyed a 12-meter “flipper” speedboat off Venezuela, killing all 11 aboard, President Trump hailed it as a strike against “a Venezuelan criminal organization tied to Maduro.” Scratch the surface, though, and it looks less like justice than premeditated aggression.
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2025-09-06 14:50
Uruguay’s Anti-Imperialist Committee condemns US military buildup near Venezuela
The Uruguayan Anti-Imperialist Committee for Solidarity with Cuba and the Peoples of the World has condemned the deployment of more than 4,500 U.S. Marines in the Caribbean, accompanied by the missile cruiser USS Lake Erie, the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Newport News, and other warships reportedly moving toward Venezuelan waters.
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2025-09-05 19:31
By staff writer
Shifting US political landscape threatens Israel’s traditional congressional influence
TEHRAN - In late August 2025, Donald Trump gave an interview to the Daily Caller, which stirred great debate regarding shifts in the political U.S. support for Israel and the diminution in power of the American pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. Congress.
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2025-09-05 17:06
US forces killed North Korean civilians in failed 2019 spy mission: NYT
A newly revealed U.S. military operation in North Korea in early 2019 ended in failure and the deaths of local civilians, raising questions about Washington’s credibility during a period of high-stakes diplomacy.
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2025-09-03 18:03
US claims it struck drug-carrying vessel that left Venezuela
President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela and was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang, AP reported.
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2025-09-02 20:48
By Shahrokh Saei
US strategy in Venezuela stirs regional alarm, echoes Bolton’s coup revelations
TEHRAN – The recent deployment of United States military forces in the waters off Venezuela has reignited concerns over Washington’s long history of interventions and regime-change policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The move comes amid US claims that the deployment is intended to combat threats from regional drug cartels.
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2025-09-02 13:38
Washington Post exposes Trump’s Gaza ‘GREAT Trust’ plan as displacement scheme
A 38-page plan circulating in the Trump administration outlines a U.S.-run trusteeship for postwar Gaza, proposing to transform the devastated enclave into a hub of luxury resorts and technology industries — while uprooting millions of Palestinians in the process.
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2025-08-27 21:37
Europe’s Snapback Gamble
Unofficial sources say the European troika plans to unlawfully trigger the reimposition of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran
TEHRAN – In a move that could further escalate tensions with Iran, Britain, France, and Germany—collectively known as the E3—are reportedly preparing to trigger the so-called “snapback” mechanism of the 2015 nuclear deal.
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2025-08-27 14:28
US tariffs take effect on India, threatening $48.2B in exports
Steep U.S. tariffs on a range of Indian products took effect Wednesday, threatening a steep blow to India’s overseas trade in its largest export market, AP reported.
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2025-08-26 18:33
Trump orders removal of Federal Reserve governor
US President Donald Trump said he will immediately remove Federal Reserve official Lisa Cook from her position, in a major escalation in his battle against the US central bank, the BBC reported.
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2025-08-24 15:48
WSJ: Pentagon restricts Ukraine's use of US missiles against Russia
The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv's ability to employ these weapons in its defense against Moscow's invasion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing U.S. officials.
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2025-08-22 20:36
Trump’s DOJ escalates lawfare with FBI raid on John Bolton’s home
FBI agents conducted court‑authorized searches at former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington office on Friday, reigniting a dormant investigation into alleged mishandling of classified information from his 2020 memoir, The Room Where It Happened.
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2025-08-20 21:01
By staff writer
What lessons can Europe learn from "daddy" school?
TEHRAN - US President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with European leaders appears to have left them with egg on their faces.
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2025-08-20 14:37
Trump hails ICC‑wanted Netanyahu as 'war hero' while Gaza bleeds
U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly hailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “war hero” — despite Netanyahu being wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in Gaza, where Palestinians are enduring one of the worst humanitarian crises in decades.
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2025-08-19 20:30
By Shahrokh Saei
Ukraine faces lose-lose choice
Ukraine peace push exposes transatlantic fault lines
TEHRAN - Three days after giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a warm, high-profile welcome in Alaska, President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders at the White House on Monday.
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2025/08/19
By Habib Ahmadzadeh
A word to the unrivalled philanthropists of our time: Melania and Netanyahu
TEHRAN - When I was a teenager, I read Bleak House by Charles Dickens. In that story, there was a woman who thought about children in Africa but never looked at her own children and did not meet their needs.
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2025-08-18 17:21
Zelenskyy and European leaders will meet with Trump on ending Russia’s war
Ukraine’s future could hinge on a hastily assembled White House meeting on Monday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives with a high-profile group of European leaders to present a united front against Russia to U.S. President Donald Trump.
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2025-08-16 20:36
By Shahrokh Saei
Alaska’s show over but Ukraine’s war not
No concrete outcomes from Trump-Putin summit as uncertainty looms
TEHRAN — Friday’s meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska has dominated headlines across the globe.
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2025-08-10 22:25
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
US push in South Caucasus raises alarm over stability and sovereignty
TEHRAN – On Friday, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement at the White House, in the presence of U.S. President Donald Trump, granting Washington exclusive rights to develop a corridor through Armenia’s southern Syunik province, which borders Iran.
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2025-08-07 17:30
Putin open to meeting Zelensky if conditions are met; Kremlin aide says Putin, Trump to meet
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he is not against holding a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky but conditions should be created to do that, TASS news agency reported.