By Afshin Majlesi

Kashmir Solidarity Day marked in Pakistan embassy in Tehran

TEHRAN – The embassy of Pakistan in Tehran observed Kashmir Solidarity Day on Monday to express unity with the Kashmiri people who have long been struggling for self-determination in northern India.

The ruler in the new kingdom will be the embodiment of the state, and citizens will lose every voice they once had, whether traditional or modern By Basheer Nafi

In MbS's kingdom, Saudis will see what despotism is really like

For decades, no Saudi ruler has drawn world attention the way the current crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has done. Interest in him is not confined to the Arab world but has gripped the entire world.

Common sense advises against war with Iran, military chief says

TEHRAN – Chief of the Iranian armed forces said on Tuesday that although common sense advises against war with Iran, “we should know that unfortunately the enemies lack common sense and logic.” 

Iran’s missiles not produced for wars: Rezaee

TEHRAN – Iran is not producing missiles for wars but to boost the deterrence capability of the Islamic Republic, Mohsen Rezaee, secretary of the Expediency Council, said on Sunday.

By Madeleine K. Albright

The national security emergency we’re not talking about

America’s diplomatic professionals have issued a dire warning about the crisis facing the State Department: Scores of top diplomats, including some of our highest-ranked career Foreign Service officers, have left the agency at “a dizzying speed” over the past 10 months.

Yes, Trump with the nuclear codes is terrifying. But the threat of a first strike is a vital deterrent

Alarmed by President Trump’s bellicose statements and impulsive governing style, two congressional Democrats have introduced legislation that would prohibit the president — any president — from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war by Congress explicitly endorsing such an attack.

By Edward-Isaac Dovere

Don’t count on the cabinet to stop a Trump-ordered nuclear strike

Stop counting on Secretary of Defense James Mattis or Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to stop a nuclear war if Donald Trump wants one, says Bill Perry. They couldn’t.

by Zahra Sadat khezri

Syria war intended to divide, weaken independent nations: Sydney University’s Anderson

Tim Anderson says ‘Washington has not yet found a way to accept defeat’ in Syria

Tim Anderson, a senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney, believes that the war on Syria was intended to weaken and divide independent countries in the region.

BY Nosratollah Tajik

Leaked secret cable confirms Israeli-Saudi coordination to provoke war in Mid-East

Former Ambassador to Jordan, Nosratollah Tajik says Leaked Secret Israeli Zionist regime's Cable Confirms Israeli-Saudi Coordination to Provoke War in Middle East. 

By Zahra Khezri

Iran self-sufficiency rooted in sanctions: Amal Movement rep.

Salah Fahs, the representative of the Lebanese Amal Movement in Tehran, believes that Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran in the 1980s - known as the imposed war - and the United States’ sanctions against Iran are the sources of Iran’s strength today in the region.

by Zahra Sadat Khezri

Neither Trump nor Kim currently seeking war: ex-senior CIA official

Paul Pillar says North Korea is unlikely ever to give up nuclear weapons as a deterrent against armed attack

TEHRAN – A former senior U.S. intelligence official believes that neither U.S. President Donald Trump nor North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un are now looking for a war.

by Zahra Sadat Khezri

Sanctions alone won't get North Korea to give up nuclear arms: Boston professor

TEHRAN - A professor of international relations from Boston University believes that economic sanctions alone will not prompt North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

By Alastair Sloan

British officials harbor doubts about Saudi-led investigations into alleged war crimes in Yemen

Internal emails obtained by MEMO show that British diplomats appear to be nervous about the quality of the investigation being carried out by the Saudi-led coalition into alleged war crimes by its forces in Yemen.

US vs. North Korea: World must take Trump and Kim at their word

Now all we hear is this: North Korean and American leaders spar, concerns increase, and calls for peaceful negotiations grow louder.

Is Trump about to repeat George W Bush's worst mistake?

In 2003, the United States initiated perhaps the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history by diverting attention from a necessary war in Afghanistan to an unnecessary war in Iraq.

By Hassan Nafea

Has Trump become a leader of Arab nationalism?

The developments of the crisis with Qatar have revealed the depth of the abyss the entire Arab world is descending into.

War, hunger and now cholera: Yemen’s crisis worsens

By last December, the main hospital in the city of Hajjah in northern Yemen had already received 200 suspected cases of cholera.

By Hank Johnson

President Trump is giving police forces weapons of war. This is dangerous

The president has signed an executive order that will reopen the floodgates of military-grade weaponry entering American streets