By Garsha Vazirian

When international law becomes a post-mortem archive

TEHRAN — A report published by Haaretz on May 17 suggests that the International Criminal Court is moving quietly toward new arrest warrants for senior Israeli figures, including Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, alongside military officials tied to the genocidal war on Gaza and the wider campaign of destruction across the region.

By Bobby Ciputra

The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing and the rise of corporate diplomacy

Who really rules the world today, the state or the market? Or is it just a handful of people behind the scenes?

JAKARTA —  U.S. President Donald Trump paid a two-day state visit to Beijing on May 14 and 15, meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah warns Lebanese authorities on talks with Israel

TEHRAN – On the anniversary of the 1983 “Agreement of Shame,” Hezbollah warns that direct talks with the Israeli regime risk surrendering Lebanese sovereignty and dignity to the enemy.

The UAE’s dangerous overreach

TEHRAN - The geopolitical landscape of the Persian Gulf has been radically redrawn following the intense 40-day military campaign launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28. While the broader conflict reached a fragile, Pakistani-mediated ceasefire in April, the diplomatic and economic aftershocks are still reverberating across the region. 

By Wesam Bahrani

Lebanon truce extension on fire

TEHRAN – The announcement of a 45-day extension to the so-called “ceasefire” in Lebanon has done little to stop the Israeli aggression. But it does raise questions about the Lebanese government.

Nakba continuing unstoppably

TEHRAN – In 1917, British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour set the stage for a tragedy that is still bleeding, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

By Garsha Vazirian

The rape factories Israel can no longer bury

TEHRAN — The New York Times report on the sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners did not reveal a mystery so much as force open a door that had been held shut by fear, propaganda, and Western cowardice. What emerged was the outline of a detention system where humiliation, sexual violence, starvation, and medical neglect have been allowed to harden into routine. Israel’s response, predictably, was denial, legal threats, and the old smear that anyone exposing Palestinian suffering is somehow trafficking in “antisemitic blood libel.”

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah inflicts more casualties on IOF

TEHRAN – Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) admit another soldier has been killed by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.

By Garsha Vazirian

Same bloody cloth, different vampiric cuts

Israel's electoral circus and its sick logic of permanent warmongering

TEHRAN — The Israeli political landscape leading into the scheduled fall elections is less a "democratic" contest than a high-stakes audition for regional aggression.

By Wesam Bahrani

How Hezbollah redefines the concept of asymmetric warfare

TEHRAN – Hezbollah has reshaped asymmetric warfare in several ways, through new tools and capabilities, and with supporting factors that are required to sustain intense battle.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah’s drones expose Israel’s costly defenses

TEHRAN – Israel’s slow, bureaucratic technology transfer to the battlefield is fueling a crisis against Hezbollah’s fast-adapting, low-cost weapons with major strategic impact.

By Garsha Vazirian

The architecture of a new Nakba in the West Bank

How settlements, demolitions, and daily terror are erasing Palestinian life

TEHRAN — Fakhri Abu Diab stands in the jagged graveyard of rebar and gray dust that used to be his living room in al-Bustan, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem (al-Quds). For decades, this was where he shared tea with his mother and watched his children grow.

By Garsha Vazirian

The Israeli bad cop’s rebranding and the guilty scapegoat theater

Netanyahu’s vow to end U.S. subsidies is a strategic gaslight designed to hide a deeper fusion

TEHRAN — When Benjamin Netanyahu sat for his interview with CBS News, now essentially an Israeli propaganda vehicle following Ellison’s acquisition, he delivered a performance meticulously engineered for an audience increasingly exhausted by his cycle of endless warfare and political maneuvering.

By staff writer

Filmmakers expose Israel’s medicide in Gaza while slamming BBC’s complicity

TEHRAN — The creators of the documentary “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack” utilized the platform of the BAFTA TV Awards to expose Israel’s systematic medicide in Gaza while delivering a scathing rebuke of the BBC’s complicity in silencing the truth.

By Wesam Bahrani

Rising Israeli casualties amid regime’s ongoing failure in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN – The Israeli regime has confirmed the death of another soldier as Hezbollah ramps up its resistance operations, intensifying pressure on occupation forces through increasingly sophisticated drone and battlefield attacks.

By Garsha Vazirian

Handala’s digital storm topples US-Israeli cyber supremacy

TEHRAN – For decades, the U.S. and Israel have sold the image of their cyber defenses as an absolute fortress, a multi-billion-dollar architecture designed to ensure that while American and Israeli forces struck the region, they themselves would remain untouchable behind layers of code.

Misjudged war underestimated Iran’s technological sophistication: Jeffrey Sachs

‘Trump’s war on Iran will significantly reduce US military presence in Persian Gulf’

TEHRAN – The only path that the United States seems to be taking in its misjudged war on Iran “is a retreat,” the internationally famous Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs and co-writer Sybil Fares say.

By Wesam Bahrani

Netanyahu between war fallout and internal crises

TEHRAN – As war repercussions persist and multiple fronts remain open, the Israeli regime has effectively entered election mode.

By staff writer

Washington’s uranium heist in Caracas reveals a desperate imperial playbook

TEHRAN — With its military campaign against Iran bogged down in stalemate and unmet objectives, the United States has redirected its imperial ambitions toward seizing the national treasures of Venezuela, which it now treats as a conquered territory.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah strikes Israeli bases for Beirut attack

TEHRAN – Hezbollah has waged a series of operations against the Zionist regime in response to an Israeli airstrike on Beirut.

By Garsha Vazirian

America’s casino kleptocracy

How the fusion of law, markets, and war turned the U.S. into a high-stakes operating system for elite enrichment

TEHRAN — When asked recently about the ethical implications of political insiders gambling on war outcomes via prediction markets, Trump’s response was as blunt as it was unsurprisingly nihilistic: “The world is a casino. It is what it is.”

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah bravely confronting IOF commando unit

TEHRAN – Hezbollah continues to mount fierce resistance against Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), inflicting losses on the regime’s military as it attempts to occupy southern Lebanon.

Rubio seeking to pacify Pope as he eyes presidency

TEHRAN - In a high-stakes diplomatic balancing act, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo XIV at the Apostolic Palace on Thursday. The two-and-a-half-hour meeting comes at a pivotal moment, as the Trump administration remains locked in a bitter verbal feud with the Holy See over the morality of the U.S. war on Iran.

By Garsha Vazirian

The death of Washington’s Dimona omertà and the return of JFK’s ghost

TEHRAN — For more than half a century, Washington played its part in a carefully staged omission: Israel's nuclear weapons were never to be officially named. On May 4, it became obvious that the script has been torn up.

American military hegemony begins to look increasingly hollow: analysis

TEHRAN – In a commentary published on May 3, Statecraft analyzed how Donald Trump’s war on Iran is exposing limits to American power.

By Wesam Bahrani

Why should Lebanon’s president avoid meeting Netanyahu?

TEHRAN – Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has said it is “not appropriate” to meet Israeli regime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at this time, amid mounting pressure from Washington to hold direct talks.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah ambushes more Israeli infantry

TEHRAN – Hezbollah is putting more emphasis on surveillance before taking direct military action against Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).

UAE policies are premised on realpolitik at the cost of morality

TEHRAN — It was a source of pride that the United Arab Emirates succeeded in becoming a highly wealthy state in just a few decades.