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  • Yasser Abu Shabab Yesterday 19:19

    By Garsha Vazirian

    The traitor’s grave buries Israel’s proxy dream in Gaza

    How Abu Shabab’s downfall exposes the limits of imposed governance and the resilience of social legitimacy

    TEHRAN – When the ISIS-linked Yasser Abu Shabab fell, Israel lost more than a proxy commander. Tel Aviv saw its “day after” blueprint for Gaza shaken at the roots.

  • Gaza Yesterday 18:43

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    How Israel benefits from Gaza destruction

    TEHRAN – Hamas has warned that Zionist regime’s violations are preventing the truce from advancing to its crucial second phase. 

  • Spy 2025-12-09 22:21

    Iranian court begins hearings for Mossad agent arrested in June war

    TEHRAN – Iranian judicial officials say a court in Alborz Province has opened proceedings against a dual national charged with spying for Israel during the June Israeli-U.S. offensive against Iran.

  • Lebanon flag 2025-12-09 22:17

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    From Oracle to Starlink: Lebanon’s security sovereignty in the wind

    BEIRUT — Lebanon has always lived in the crossfire of regional conflicts, but rarely has its digital sovereignty been placed so casually on the negotiating table.

  • Gaza 2025-12-09 22:13

    By Wesam Bahrani

    How Israel trampled on human rights in Gaza

    TEHRAN – Gaza has been subjected to the harshest forms of collective punishment in modern history, measures that grossly violate international law and amount to war crimes.

  • Tehran Times 2025-12-09 22:04

    By Sahar Dadjoo

    Iran’s stand in the 12-day war undermined U.S.-Israeli strategy, says Philippine scholar

    Julkipli Wadi warns that as Israel widens its aggression, Iran’s resilience signals a new regional momentum.

    TEHRAN – At the sidelines of the Conference on “People’s Rights and Legitimate Freedoms in the Thoughts of Ayatollah Khamenei,” the Tehran Times spoke with Professor Julkipli Wadi of the University of the Philippines to examine the conference’s intellectual significance, the current crisis of international law, and Iran’s evolving role in regional security.

  • Netanyahu 2025-12-09 20:07

    By Shahrokh Saei

    Is Israel’s mirage of victory in Gaza fading?

    TEHRAN – More than two years after Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, the outcome is undeniable: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to “destroy Hamas” has failed. 

  • South Lebanon 2025-12-09 19:26

    Israel violates Lebanon ceasefire again, unleashing heavy airstrikes and ground demolitions

    TEHRAN — Israeli warplanes unleashed a heavy barrage across southern Lebanon late Monday into Tuesday, hammering Jabal Safi, the valley between Azza and Roumine, and multiple sites in Iqlim al-Tuffah.

  • West Bank 2025-12-09 19:24

    Israeli forces detain eight Palestinians in overnight raids across northern West Bank

    Israeli occupation forces carried out fresh overnight raids across the northern West Bank, detaining eight Palestinians from the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, and from the Old Askar refugee camp to the east, Middle East Eye reported Tuesday.

  • Tony Blair 2025-12-09 16:29

    Blair dropped from leading Trump’s Gaza board after regional objections

    Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been removed from consideration to lead U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed “board of peace” in Gaza, the Financial Times revealed, following objections raised by several Arab and Muslim states.

  • Gazan journalist killed 2025-12-09 15:29

    Israel killed nearly half of all journalists slain globally, new report confirms

    A new report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Tuesday confirms that 67 journalists were killed worldwide between December 1, 2024, and December 1, 2025, nearly half of them in the Gaza Strip, where they were killed by Israeli forces.

  • Trump’s deputy special envoy Morgan Ortagus meeting Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea (archive photo) 2025-12-08 22:00

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Lebanon faces a choice between real power and foreign illusions

    BEIRUT—Lebanon’s political and security landscape has long been defined by a paradox: the nation’s true defenders often operate outside formal institutions, while the official state struggles to assert authority, maintain sovereignty, or protect its people.

  • Officials at the CMCC 2025-12-08 21:34

    By Garsha Vazirian

    The tail that trained the dog to heel

    From Pollard’s tea party to hidden microphones in Gaza “aid” center—same leash, same blood

    TEHRAN – They built the room together. America paid for the walls, the fake grass carpet, and the giant posters of Trump’s twenty-point plan. America flew in the logisticians who know how to move rice through war zones. America even invited a few Dutch and Emirati officers to keep up the pretense of multilateralism.

  • Netanyahu and Blair 2025-12-08 17:23

    Netanyahu secretly plotted with Tony Blair to impose foreign occupation on Gaza: Report

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly held a clandestine meeting with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss a new foreign-administered framework for governing the Gaza Strip, Al Mayadeen reported Monday, citing the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN).

  • Netanyahu 2025-12-08 16:18

    Israel won’t relinquish newly occupied Syrian territory near Damascus, Netanyahu says

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his military will not withdraw from territories it occupied in southern Syria, Anadolu reported Monday.

  • IRGC Pakpour 2025-12-07 21:54

    After 'war on global technology,' Iran pushes for advanced stealth missiles

    TEHRAN - The commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has declared that enhancing the country's stealth-missile technology is a critical priority. He also issued a warning that any new Israeli aggression would be met with a response more severe than ever before.

  • Israeli strike in Lebanon 2025/12/07

    By Xavier Villar

    The colonial reconfiguration: Israel and the extinction of sovereignty in West Asia

    MADRID – In the conventional diplomatic lexicon, “normalization” is typically framed as an intrinsic good: the peaceful acceptance of a state within recognized borders, integrated into the regional economic and security architecture. It is a term that evokes closure and resolution.

  • German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands, in Jerusalem, on December 7, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO) 2025-12-07 21:40

    By staff writer

    Merz’s appeasement of Netanyahu will only embolden war criminals

    TEHRAN - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Israel for the first time since taking office in May. Merz’s visit comes just days after Germany decided to lift a three-month suspension on arms exports to Israel.

  • Lebanon 2025-12-07 20:25

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Lebanon’s neutrality debate in a shifting regional context

    BEIRUT — Let’s try, for a moment, to imagine a Lebanon where words mean what they say. In that alternate universe, “neutrality” would imply rejecting foreign meddling of any kind, “interference” would refer to bombing residential areas, and “sovereignty” might include the radical notion of objecting to drones overhead.

  • Gaza 2025-12-07 18:51

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    The future of armed resistance in Gaza 

    TEHRAN – The Palestinian resistance in Gaza faces a precarious period between flimsy ceasefires and ongoing aggression. 

  • Iron Dome 2025-12-07 18:14

    Handala names Iron Dome architects in devastating leak

    TEHRAN – In another operation in its cyber campaign against Israel’s military establishment, the pro-Palestine hacking collective Handala has published the detailed identities of what it calls the “main architects” of the Iron Dome missile defense system.

  • Hamas chief 2025-12-07 15:21

    Hamas signals readiness to place arms under Palestinian state authority

    Hamas said Saturday it was ready to hand over its weapons in the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian authority governing the territory on the condition that the Israeli army's occupation ends, AFP reported Saturday.

  • Gaza journalist killed 2025-12-07 15:20

    Israel committed 57 assaults on Palestinian journalists in November alone

    Israeli forces and illegal settlers committed 57 violations and assaults against journalists in the occupied West Bank and Gaza in November, Anadolu reported Sunday, citing the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS).

  • Netanyahu 2025/12/06

    By Fatemeh Kavand

    Implications of potential transformations in US-aligned governments for Iran’s future

    Instead of using the help of Arab states, Israel may leverage Arab instability to target Iran

    Political shifts in West Asia are rarely calm or gradual; rather, they tend to be sudden, multilayered, and deeply interconnected. For decades, countries in the region have repeatedly witnessed how a single spark can alter the course of history. 

  • Intl. Ministry logo 2025-12-06 22:45

    Terrorists arrested before Tehran metro bombing; trainer a ‘NATO officer’ residing in Sweden 

    TEHRAN – A number of individuals in Iran, receiving funds and training out of Europe, were arrested by intelligence forces before they could carry out the terrorist operations they had been instructed to conduct, which included the bombing of Tehran’s vast metro station, the killing of police and security forces, and the murder of random civilians.

  • Trump 2025-12-06 22:18

    By Faramarz Kouhpayeh 

    Scrambling to Sustain a Waning Hegemony

    Decoding the 2025 US National Security Strategy

    TEHRAN – The White House's periodic document outlining United States foreign policy and national security strategy was released by the Trump administration on Thursday. The 33-page document, which appears to draw heavily on Trump's "America First" policy, has raised alarms in nearly every region of the world—with the probable exception of Israel.

  • Qatari PM 2025-12-06 20:08

    ‘Pause’ in Gaza cannot be called ‘ceasefire’ without Israeli withdrawal: Qatar PM

    Negotiations on consolidating the U.S.-backed truce in the war in Gaza are at a "critical" moment, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Saturday, according to Reuters.

  • PGCC 2025-12-06 19:57

    By Shahrokh Saei 

    A thousand cuts: Israel’s hybrid war tactics in the Persian Gulf

    TEHRAN – In the Persian Gulf, the islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb have long stood as enduring symbols of Iran’s sovereignty. The renewed mention of the islands in the final communique of a Persian Gulf Arab summit in Bahrain was not a mere diplomatic formality, but part of a broader geopolitical maneuver. The statement, which condemned what it called Iran’s “continued occupation” of the islands, was swiftly rejected by Tehran.

  •  US special envoy Morgan Ortagus (right) talking to Lebanese Forces party leader Samir Geagea  2025-12-06 19:03

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    LF outsourcing patriotism to the occupiers: See how it ended in Afghanistan

    BEIRUT—No contradiction in Lebanese politics is more glaring than the desire of the Lebanese Forces (LF) to see the Israeli enemy resolve their political dispute inside Lebanon. A party that claims to defend state sovereignty routinely seeks foreign intervention against a Lebanese actor with a proven popular and national base.

  • Israeli military 2025-12-06 17:43

    Israel hikes military service to 36 months amid ‘corruption and draft-dodging’ crisis

    Israeli War Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on 5 December a plan to extend mandatory military service to 36 months, The Cradle reported Saturday.