By Garsha Vazirian

The Lidless Eye of Sauron watches us all. Are we helpless?

TEHRAN — The name "Palantir" confesses its intent so plainly that it reads less like branding and more like a manual: a candid revelation of the method by which a world is watched.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah responds to the Zionist military amid fragile truce

TEHRAN – Amid ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire with Lebanon, Hezbollah has once again responded by attacking the occupying regime’s military.

By Garsha Vazirian

The sledgehammer that crystallized Israel’s war on Christianity

From Gaza’s bombed churches to a decapitated Jesus in Lebanon, Israel’s aggression reveals a systematic assault on the Levant’s Christian soul

TEHRAN — The image lands like a physical blow: An Israeli soldier in full uniform stands outside a family home in the Maronite Christian village of Debel, six kilometers from the border, and swings a sledgehammer straight into the head of a Jesus statue on its crucifix.

By Wesam Bahrani

Iraq nears government formation breakthrough

TEHRAN – Iraq advances toward selecting a prime minister as political factions intensify negotiations following the presidential appointment.

By Garsha Vazirian

The rain fell, and the UAE’s house on sand is falling

By choosing US and Israel over neighborhood, UAE ignored tectonic shifts that have now brought storm to its doorstep

TEHRAN — The United Arab Emirates had a defining choice to make, and it made the wrong one. For years, Abu Dhabi cast itself as the clever pragmatist of the Persian Gulf, a nimble trader that could glide above the region’s oldest fault lines.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah strikes Zionist convoy in first post-truce operation

TEHRAN – Amid the ongoing Israeli violations of the Lebanon ceasefire, Hezbollah ambushes a military convoy, destroying four tanks.

By Garsha Vazirian

Cuba on the brink of Washington’s predatory play

Desperate for a win after the Iran war quagmire, the U.S. tightens the noose on Havana

TEHRAN — Cuba is living through a nightmare of its own making, if you ignore America’s fingerprints. Blackouts that stretch sixteen to twenty hours a day have become ordinary.

By Wesam Bahrani

Lebanon ceasefire: A new impasse or a lifeline?

TEHRAN – The Zionist regime’s prime minister is not expected to easily surrender his plans and aspirations in Lebanon.

By Wesam Bahrani

Bint Jbeil’s symbolic value for Hezbollah

TEHRAN – Hezbollah’s heroic resistance in Bint Jbeil, a historic nightmare town for the Zionist regime, has been turned into a fresh hell for invaders with a dozen confirmed casualties.

By Garsha Vazirian

The trillion-dollar folly of America’s war on Iran

TEHRAN — As the fog of war partially thins, the economic numbers have hardened into a reality that Washington can no longer mask with the kind of military bravado it relied on during the height of its campaign of aggression against Iran.

Naval blockade: A desperate, erratic and hasty decision

TEHRAN - Just hours after the talks between Iran and the U.S. in Islamabad ended on Sunday morning with a breakthrough, President Donald Trump declared a naval blockade of Iran.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah’s fierce resistance as Lebanese authorities entering talks with Israel

TEHRAN – Hezbollah puts up heavy resistance against invading Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, while authorities enter direct talks with the occupation regime.

By Garsha Vazirian

Trump’s brazen 'Antichrist' complex meets torrent of condemnation and Pope’s defiance

Inside the Faustian bargain of an elite trading away their moral heritage for the gospel of force

TEHRAN — In the quiet, heavy hours following Orthodox Easter Sunday, the world glimpsed something far more unsettling than mere political theater. U.S. President Donald Trump, fresh from waging a campaign of aggression against Iran and issuing apocalyptic ultimatums against the Iranian people, turned his digital fury toward Pope Leo XIV.

By Wesam Bahrani

Is Israel’s negotiation offer a trap for Lebanon?

TEHRAN – As bombs fall on Lebanon, a sudden invitation to talks emerges, but is it peace or a political ambush?

US irrational demands bring Islamabad talks to inconclusive end

TEHRAN – Excessive and irrational demands from the United States during the marathon talks in Islamabad brought the negotiations between Iranian and American negotiators to a failure.

By Garsha Vazirian

Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes

Why Tehran sees Washington’s Islamabad ultimatum as a mafia-style shakedown

TEHRAN — After around twenty-one hours of talks in Islamabad on April 11, the highest-level meeting between Tehran and Washington since 1979, no agreement emerged. Vice President JD Vance stepped off Air Force Two and delivered the verdict with chilling clarity: "They have chosen not to accept our terms."

Israel assassinated Kamal Kharrazi to kill diplomacy, but Iranian society is dynamic

TEHRAN - The Israeli assassination of Kamal Kharrazi, chairperson of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, came as a blow to wisdom and diplomacy.

By Garsha Vazirian

Do not believe Tucker Carlson; Trump owns this war

From My Lai to Minab, America has never needed Israeli blackmail to slaughter innocents, and we should not fall for its latest escape hatch

TEHRAN — The latest split inside the American right has produced a familiar and dishonest story. Donald Trump’s current and former defenders now want the world to believe he is not truly responsible for what he says, orders, or destroys.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah pounds Israeli settlements and military

TEHRAN – Hezbollah has launched attacks on Israeli settlements, targeting military infrastructure and assembly points of the regime’s military.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah strikes Zionist regime after Lebanon massacre

TEHRAN – Hezbollah has intensified its attacks on the Zionist regime, launching non-stop rocket barrages and long-range missiles.

“Strategic success beyond imagination”

TEHRAN – A senior expert says Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global energy corridor, is a “strategic success beyond imagination.”

By Garsha Vazirian

Why the war on Iran will dictate the next era in American politics

On Washington’s deepening fissures, the economic backlash, and the right’s good-cop, bad-cop routine

TEHRAN — The fragile two-week ceasefire that took effect around April 8, decidedly not a victory for Washington or Tel Aviv, has forced Iran’s adversaries to confront the limits of their military pressure and the internal rivalries that both fuel the war and are now being reshaped by its possible fallout.