Today News
  • The real clawing and hissing echoes through Washington’s corridors, from a Pentagon ripping itself apart over the unpopular campaign of aggression Trump started Today 19:53

    By Garsha Vazirian

    The catfights Trump can’t hide

    While lecturing Tehran’s imaginary “new regime”, Washington’s purges and military misadventures reveal the true source of disorder

    TEHRAN — When President Trump sneered that Iran’s leaders “are fighting like cats and dogs” because the U.S. has “created a real mess for them,” it was meant as a gotcha line, proof of American triumph. Instead, it hangs in the air like an unwitting self-portrait.

  • In his war against Iran, Trump now finds himself in a trap that has ensnared other presidents, most similarly Lyndon Johnson Today 19:09

    Tehran is following Ho Chi Minh’s playbook in Vietnam: FP 

    TEHRAN - Michael Hirsh, a columnist for Foreign Policy, says Iran “is following Ho Chi Minh’s playbook in Vietnam” in the face of the U.S.-Israeli war against the country.

  • Journalist Amal Khalil Today 18:56

    By Maedeh Zaman Fashami

    Amal Khalil wrote the final report with her own blood

    TEHRAN – The martyrdom of Amal Khalil once again draws the attention of regional and global public opinion to one of the most significant dimensions of the recent wars in Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories: the systematic targeting of journalists on the battlefield.

  • A US Navy firing a Tomahawk Yesterday 19:42

    By Garsha Vazirian

    The hollowed arsenal of a fading empire

    The campaign of aggression against Iran has left the American military-industrial complex in a state of kinetic bankruptcy

    TEHRAN — The leak is worse than the official denial because it reveals something the White House cannot spin away: the United States has been fighting Iran with a magazine that is visibly thinning. After weeks of air and missile combat, the Trump administration is now confronting the oldest rule of warfare it spent years pretending technology had abolished: if you shoot faster than you can build, you eventually run dry.

  • Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) admit 45 of its soldiers were injured in southern Lebanon in the past 48 hours alone Yesterday 17:52

    By Wesam Bahrani

    Dozens of IOF casualties as Lebanon ceasefire extended

    TEHRAN – The Zionist regime admits major casualties in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah launches more retaliatory attacks over the regime’s ceasefire violations.

  • U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh Moawad [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] Yesterday 17:06

    By Batool Subeiti

    Why has Israel entered direct talks with Lebanon?

    LONDON - The Islamic resistance of Lebanon emerged to fill a vacuum during a time of absolute Israeli dominance of the country following the 1982 invasion. Its resistance finally led to the liberation of Lebanon.

  • Taken from the legendarium of Tolkien, the Palantíri were seeing stones that allowed powerful beings to observe across vast distances 2026-04-22 19:52

    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.

  • Trump and his secretary of war Hegseth are considered wrong-headed 2026-04-22 19:15

    By Dr. Yasir Ali Mirza

    Beyond brinksmanship: The Orientalism in Trump's Iran war cry

    NEW DELHI - In a striking display of aggressive posturing amid the war on Iran, United States President Donald Trump’s apocalyptic warning of total annihilation in a prime-time television address from the White House has since been reverberating around the world. Demonstrating how his “madman attitude” has made the world more uncertain, he declared that the U.S. army would be hitting Iran “extremely hard,” if his demand of lifting the siege on the Strait of Hormuz would not be heeded by the Islamic Republic Guards Corps (IRGC).

  • Hezbollah fighters respond to Israel's violation of ceasefire 2026-04-22 19:02

    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.

  • An Israeli soldier hitting a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer 2026-04-21 19:17

    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.

  • The Coordination Framework held a key meeting on Monday at the residence of Ammar al-Hakim, leader of the National State Forces Alliance, to discuss potential candidates for post of prime minister 2026-04-21 19:06

    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.

  • The family of bin Zayeds 2026-04-20 19:58

    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.

  • Israeli media outlets 2026-04-20 19:45

    By Kourosh Alyani

    Elucidating the mechanisms of ‘counter-speech’ in Israel’s media strategy

    TEHRAN - The credibility of any reasonable dialogue rests on two fundamental principles: a substantial and maximal commitment to alignment with reality and internal consistency.

  • The Israeli tanker is in flames 2026-04-20 19:26

    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.

  • Israel 2026-04-20 00:28

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Israel’s canine unit of sexual torture

    Whistleblowers and survivors break the silence on the systematic use of trained dogs to assault Palestinian detainees

    TEHRAN — The thin veneer that has long served as the psychological bedrock of Israeli forces has finally dissolved into a landscape of visceral, animalistic sadism.

  • Lebanon-Israel 2026-04-20 00:24

    By Wesam Bahrani

    “Direct talks with Israel: An insult to Lebanon”

    TEHRAN – Hezbollah has warned it will respond to any violation of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime of Israel.

  • Cuba 2026-04-18 21:29

    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.

  • Benjamin Netanyahu 2026-04-18 21:19

    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.

  • Pete Hegseth 2026-04-18 21:16

    Committing war crimes under the name of religion

    Hegseth glorifies war and violence

    TEHRAN – Donald Trump and his War Secretary Pete Hegseth are portraying themselves as Messiah in the war against Iran.

  • Trump 2026-04-18 01:02

    Trump must find an exit route from his war of choice with Iran

    TEHRAN - Donald Trump first imagined that the war will last hours or days but weeks have passed and the U.S. is sinking deeper into the Iran quagmire.

  • American scientists 2026-04-18 01:00

    By Kourosh Alyani

    The disappearance of 10 American scientists and a potential weapons program

    TEHRAN — To provide a rational analysis of the disappearance of 10 American scientists within a short timeframe, grounded in technological and security realities, one must examine the loss of specialists beyond mere criminal or conspiracy-driven narratives. Instead, this phenomenon should be viewed within the framework of strategic asset management and the lifecycle of ultra-classified projects.

  • war 2026-04-18 00:54

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Why the alchemists of America’s secret programs are vanishing

    Inside the wave of disappearances hitting the architects of next-generation weapons and propulsion

    TEHRAN — When President Donald Trump emerged from a closed-door briefing on April 16, he characterized the recent wave of missing and deceased American scientists as "pretty serious stuff," a phrasing that suggests the administration is no longer viewing the "coincidence" of these events as a statistical anomaly.

  • war 2026-04-16 05:01

    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.

  • War 2026-04-16 00:49

    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.

  • Trump 2026-04-14 20:19

    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.

  • Hezbollah 2026-04-14 20:16

    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.

  • Trump 2026-04-14 20:13

    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.

  • Lebanon 2026-04-13 00:20

    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?

  • Islamabad talks 2026-04-13 00:17

    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.

  • Trump 2026-04-13 00:09

    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."