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  • US Today 20:28

    By staff writer

    War or peace: What Hegseth and Trump signal

    TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a speech on Friday that left no ambiguity: the United States is not seeking to avoid war — it is actively preparing for a global confrontation. Speaking at the National War College, Hegseth compared today’s world to 1939, the year World War II began, and 1981, when Cold War tensions surged. These weren’t just historical references — they were warnings. And more than that, they were a roadmap.

  • Syria Today 18:25

    By Layla Saad 

    Rising tensions in Syria’s northeast: What is driving US military activity?

    BEIRUT – More than seven months after the March 10 agreement between Syria’s de facto ruler Ahmad al-Sharaa (al-Jolani) and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi, the deal lies in tatters.

  • Grossi Yesterday 20:36

    Grossi is at it again: IAEA chief repeats incendiary claims on Iran’s nuclear program

    TEHRAN – The latest remarks by Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have reignited controversy over the agency’s neutrality of its reports on Iran’s peaceful nuclear program, as well as the role the UN body plays in helping Western states justify pressure and aggression against the country.

  • Iravani Yesterday 20:35

    Tehran seeks compensation as Trump admits he was ‘very much in charge’ of Israel’s raid on Iran

    Iran cites Trump's ‘clear and irrefutable evidence’ as proof of US role in attacks

    TEHRN – Iran has stated that a public "criminal confession" from U.S. President Donald Trump confirms Washington's direct role in Israel's aggression against the country in June, holding both parties fully responsible for civilian deaths, widespread destruction, and attacks on safeguarded nuclear sites.

  • Lebanon Yesterday 17:32

    By Sondoss Al Asaad 

    How Washington and its allies are rewriting Lebanon’s future

    BEIRUT — Lebanon stands at a decisive juncture. External powers, led by the United States and supported by Israel, are accelerating efforts to reshape the country’s political and military landscape.

  • Iraq Yesterday 17:24

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    Iraq heading for crucial elections 

    TEHRAN – Iraq will hold its sixth parliamentary elections on November 11, in what may be the most consequential vote since 2003. 

  • US shutdown 2025-11-07 19:35

    By staff writer

    Longest U.S. government shutdown grounds flights, exposes deep divisions

    TEHRAN – The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has moved beyond legislative gridlock and into systemic crisis. What began as a budgetary impasse has now disrupted core infrastructure, with flight cancellations at Boston’s Logan Airport marking a visible rupture in federal functionality. 

  • Trump 2025-11-05 20:13

    By Mona Hojat Ansari

    Why another Iran-US agreement is far off

    TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was bombarded with questions about a potential new round of nuclear talks with the U.S. as he exited a cabinet meeting and encountered journalists waiting outside.

  • Trump 2025-11-05 20:12

    Iran urges UN to take swift action over US president’s threatening remarks

    TEHRAN – Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has urged the world body to take urgent action following statements by U.S. President Donald Trump about resuming nuclear weapons testing, describing them as a grave threat to global peace and a violation of international law.

  • Iran Venezuala flags 2025-11-05 20:11

    By Elaheh Tahmasebi

    Why Venezuela’s fate matters to Iran

    TEHRAN – Could a U.S. attack on Venezuela serve as a prelude to a future strike against Iran? This is one of the most frequently asked questions in Iranian circles today regarding the fate of Caracas and the Maduro government. 

  • Iraq 2025-11-05 17:53

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    U.S. pressures Iraq ahead of elections

    TEHRAN – U.S. pressure to disarm Iraq’s resistance factions is intended to influence elections and thereby undermine the country’s sovereignty and popular security forces.

  • 13 Aban 2025-11-04 20:57

    The spirit of 13 Aban still marches

    Hundreds of thousands of students across Iran mark National Day of ‘Fight against Global Arrogance’

    TEHRAN – Hundreds of thousands of Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran and more than 900 cities nationwide on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover, an event officially known as the National Day of Fight against Global Arrogance.

  • 13 aban 2025-11-04 20:56

    By Xavier Villar

    Iran, 46 years later

    The seizure of the U.S. embassy and the forging of a sovereign republic

    MADRID – Every November 4, Iran commemorates an episode that, transcending the boundaries of historical anecdote to become a founding myth, encapsulates the ontological essence of its revolution: the takeover of the United States Embassy in Tehran by a group of students.

  • Lebonan 2025-11-04 20:53

    By Layla Saad

    If Lebanon was truly free, students would have shut down US spy den

    BEIRUT — If Lebanon was not a “corrupt state,” its students would have long ago shut down the den of “diplomatic occupation” masquerading as the American Embassy in Awkar, just as Iranian students did in 1979 when they stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and declared a second revolution to defend their nation’s dignity.

  • Lebanon 2025-11-04 20:36

    By Sondoss Al Asaad 

    Washington’s pressure and Lebanon’s slide toward forced normalization

    BEIRUT — The recent talk of a “negotiation option” announced by President Joseph Aoun has reignited one of Lebanon’s most dangerous debates, that of normalization disguised as pragmatism. 

  • Dick Cheney 2025/11/04

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Dick Cheney, shadowy architect of death and endless wars, dies at 84

    The American veep who drove the Iraq invasion, torture policies, and corporate profiteering leaves behind a legacy of death, secrecy, and conflict

    TEHRAN – Former U.S. Vice President Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney, the hawkish neoconservative who wove ruthless ambition and doctrine into the military-industrial complex—catalyzing endless wars that profited from carnage and fattened corporate coffers—died Monday at 84.

  • U.S. gov. shutdown 2025-11-04 18:45

    U.S. government shutdown poised to break record as federal paralysis deepens

    The U.S. government shutdown tied the prior record on Tuesday and is on pace to become the longest in history on Wednesday at 36 days, a stark marker of national dysfunction and a presidency defined by confrontation over compromise.

  • baqaei 2025-11-03 21:29

    What Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said at his weekly briefing

    TEHRAN – In his weekly press conference on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei addressed a broad range of domestic, regional, and international issues — from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and U.S. interference in regional affairs to Iran’s nuclear policy, water rights, and relations with neighboring and allied countries.

  • Leader 2025-11-03 21:15

    Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran-US conflict a deep-seated clash of interests

    TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei addressed the prospect of Iran-US normalization on Monday, saying the two countries represent two different currents, and that Washington must take several necessary steps before it can establish ties with Iran. 

  • Zohran Mamdani 2025-11-03 21:14

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Gaza’s shadow over NYC: How a mayoral race turned into a moral referendum

    Calling genocide by its name, Zohran Mamdani forced a reckoning and unleashed a fierce counterattack

    TEHRAN – Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the Ugandan-Indian son of a postcolonial scholar who was born in Uganda, has done something the pundit class assumed impossible: his campaign dragged the once-distant politics of Gaza into the center of a New York mayoral election and forced voters to decide whether American power remains accountable.

  • Trump Bibi 2025-11-03 18:18

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    Israel, U.S. fabricating a plot to justify attack on Iraq

    TEHRAN – The American and Israeli regimes fabricate an Iraqi threat to justify aggression and destabilize regional stability.

  • Pezeshkian 2025-11-02 21:34

    By Mona Hojat Ansari 

    ‘We will rebuild our nuclear sites,’ Pezeshkian says after meeting nuclear officials

    TEHRAN – With the extent of damage at Iranian nuclear sites following illegal U.S.-Israeli attacks remaining unknown to the West and the public, President Masoud Pezeshkian has announced Tehran will rebuild its nuclear industry, while security chief Ali Larijani stated the country is ready for talks that do not include 'unacceptable conditions'.

  • Trump and warplane 2025-11-02 20:48

    By Habib Ahmadzadeh

    Peace by force and Trump’s inverted world order

    TEHRAN – Think about how, over the past fifty years, Western leaders—especially in Europe—have repeatedly shouted “democracy” and “no to violence.”

  • Trump trying to be president of his fans 2025-11-02 18:53

    By Sahar Dadjoo

    Trump trying to be president of his fans: American sociologist

    David Meyer says "No Kings" protests reflect growing fear of executive overreach

    TEHRAN- In an exclusive interview with Tehran Times, David S. Meyer, a professor of sociology, political science, and urban planning at the University of California, Irvine, sheds light on the ongoing "No Kings" protests and the potential implications of Donald Trump's policies. 

  • Iran shield 2025-11-01 21:44

    By Fatemeh Kavand

    What the West fails to understand about Iran

    The recent article published by the American magazine The Atlantic, titled “In Iran, Anything Can Happen,” once again reflects the same biased and colonial gaze that the West has long held toward Iran and its people. 

  • Araghchi 2025-11-01 21:41

    By Soheila Zarfam 

    War didn't halt enrichment; pressure won't either

    Araghchi says a 'fair' deal possible if US scraps 'unacceptable' conditions

    TEHRAN – In an interview with Qatari media, Iran's foreign minister reiterated what has essentially been the country’s position for decades: the United States cannot make Iran blink. Neither sanctions, nor threats, nor even wars – like the one Washington and Israel waged against Iran in June – will succeed. A win-win deal remains the only off-ramp from the escalating high tensions.

  • Diego Sequera 2025-11-01 20:23

    ‘Power play on Venezuela’s coast is about hegemony, not drugs:’ Analyst

    Venezuelan analyst Diego Sequera told Iran’s Mehr News Agency that Washington’s latest maneuvers in and around Venezuela are not truly about the drug trade.

  • Mehr's Iraq roundtable 2025-11-01 20:17

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Can Iraq navigate November’s vote without succumbing to Washington’s coercion?

    TEHRAN – Iraq’s November 11 parliamentary election will be judged less by campaign rhetoric than by the mechanics of participation and the geopolitics that frame them.

  • Lebanon 2025-11-01 18:33

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Washington is instigator rather than mediator

    BEIRUT—Since the outbreak of the ongoing Israeli aggression against Lebanon and West Asia at large, Washington has entrenched its role as the region’s primary instigator, not a neutral mediator. 

  • دیدار دست‌اندرکاران کنگره بین‌المللی میرزای نائینی با رهبر معظم انقلاب 2025-10-31 21:26

    By Fatemeh kavand

    Faith, knowledge, and steadfastness: Ayatollah Khamenei’s vision for an independent Iran

    Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei’s latest address, delivered in a meeting with Iran’s scientific elites and young medal-winning scholars, was far more than a ceremonial speech. It was a comprehensive declaration about the future of Iran in a transforming global order.