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Yesterday 21:10
By staff writer
Trump’s White House chaotically turns on itself as Republicans brace for defeat
TEHRAN — A press secretary hired on a Friday and gone the next. An ambassador’s ouster announced during her only briefing. Loyalists feuding over money while the chief of staff’s family draws scrutiny. With the November 3 midterms less than three weeks away, Donald Trump’s White House has stopped hiding its disorder.
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Yesterday 19:02
By Xavier Villar
Azerbaijan reignites debate over secularism
MADRID - A decision by the Azerbaijani government that effectively bans students and teachers from wearing the hijab in educational institutions has sparked a wave of protests.
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Yesterday 18:44
By Ali Minabi
Peace with Israel: A Lebanese illusion?
TEHRAN – The occupying Israeli regime continues to wage almost daily aggression against towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
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2026-10-16 20:34
By Mahdi Zolfaghari
Beijing’s mediating power in international crises
TEHRAN – In the new international order, the concept of “power” is no longer defined solely by the number of nuclear warheads, overseas military bases, or classical security alliances; rather, the new geometry of global power is shaped by the capacity of supply chains, currency exchanges, infrastructure investments, and economic interdependence.
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2026-10-16 20:34
By staff writer
Caught in an imbroglio, Trump resorts to more blatant lies and misleading claims
TEHRAN – Donald Trump appears to be losing his grip on reality as the November 3 congressional midterm elections approach.
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2026-10-16 20:33
By staff writer
Israeli firm weaponized online ads to hack targets, spy on hundreds of millions
TEHRAN — An Israeli advertising company turned the banner ad into a hacking tool, and for at least two years the companies running the world’s ad platforms failed to stop it.
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2026-10-14 19:13
Yemen attacks Aramco sites and Riyadh airport
The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) said on Wednesday it had targeted Saudi Aramco facilities in Dhahran, King Khalid International Airport and an Aramco refinery in Riyadh. It said they launched ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones.
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2026-10-14 19:06
Israeli forces raid West Bank villages as settlers torch mosque
Israeli settlers have set fire to a mosque, an olive tree and a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, as Israeli forces continue to carry out raids across the territory.
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2026-10-14 19:00
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Reconstruction, resistance, and the battle for Lebanon’s future
BEIRUT — The announcement by Hezbollah’s Executive Council chairman, Sheikh Ali Damoush, of a new housing assistance program for Lebanese families displaced by the ongoing U.S.–led Israeli attacks comes amid a wider struggle over reconstruction, state authority, and the future of Lebanon.
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2026-10-14 18:50
By staff writer
Saudi Arabia’s billions in arms fail to buy security
TEHRAN - Saudi Arabia spends tens of billions of dollars on arms every year, but is struggling to protect key assets such as airports, refineries and pipelines from missiles and drones fired by Ansarallah, also called the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF).
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2026-10-14 18:41
By staff writer
Republicans face expanding midterm backlash over Iran war, living costs
TEHRAN — Donald Trump says the approaching U.S. elections will not change his position regarding Iran. Republican candidates are already changing theirs.
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2026-10-13 21:11
By Ali Minabi
Can Saudi Arabia find a viable path out of Yemen?
TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia is once again testing its options for dealing with Ansarallah, hoping that what failed the first time might succeed the next.
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2026-10-13 20:36
Baku arrests dozens as hijab ban empties schools
TEHRAN — “I don’t have a single B on my report card. Is this the respect I get?” The girl standing at the school gate was crying, and the officials in front of her did not move. “Have I ever done anything wrong? And now you’re telling me I can’t enter the school. Why should I have to give up my religion?”
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2026-10-13 20:36
By staff writer
Trump targets anti-war Muslim congresswoman three weeks before midterms
TEHRAN — U.S. federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant early Monday morning at the Washington residence of Representative Ilhan Omar. Law enforcement personnel blocked off the surrounding street and removed multiple boxes labeled as “seized evidence” from the premises.
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2026-10-13 19:35
By Ranjan Solomon
Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize: Restoring moral authority of peace through justice
GOA, India - For a world fractured by double standards, the recognition of a lifelong defender of human rights is a reminder that peace cannot be separated from accountability. True peace is not achieved simply when the powerful agree to stop fighting. It is achieved when the vulnerable no longer have to live at their mercy.
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2026-10-13 19:23
Rubio’s understanding of thymos is very deficient: Francis Fukuyama
‘Rubio celebrates the agreement over Greenland, without mentioning his desire to grab it away from Denmark’
TEHRAN – The political scientist Francis Fukuyama says U.S. Secretary of State understanding of of thymos -- pride, spiritedness, the desire for recognition -- is very deficient.
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2026-10-12 20:35
German silence on Gaza and the West Bank ‘has been loud’: Philippe Sands
Winner of German Book Trade's Peace Prize insists on ‘excavating matters that some wish to hide’
TEHRAN — Philippe Sands, a professor of law at University College London and human rights lawyer at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, has criticized Germany’s “silence on crimes committed on the territory of Palestine, in Gaza and in the West Bank.”
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2026-10-12 20:34
By staff writer
Yemen Leaves Riyadh Grounded
Repeated strikes close Riyadh airport and shatter Saudi air defenses as Ansarallah enforces its 'blockade for blockade' doctrine
TEHRAN — Riyadh’s airport has been hit five times since Tuesday, October 6, by Saudi authorities’ own count, and the government cannot promise a sixth will not come. On Saturday, a missile struck King Khalid International Airport, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 300, according to the kingdom. On Sunday, another projectile set Terminal 4 on fire. On Monday, the Saudi civil aviation authority extended the shutdown.
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2026-10-12 20:18
The weapon shifting Yemen’s frontlines
By Ali Minabi
TEHRAN – While Yemeni missile attacks on Riyadh airport capture global headlines, another tactical weapon has shifted the frontlines near Bab al-Mandab.
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2026-10-11 21:54
By staff writer
Midterm panic pushes Trump to trade Zelensky for cheaper diesel
TEHRAN — With the 2026 U.S. midterm elections a month away and diesel at $6.28 a gallon, Donald Trump went looking for someone to blame and settled on Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, whose official presidential mandate expired long ago and whose continued rule under suspended elections remains constitutionally questionable.
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2026-10-11 21:54
Gaza protests fill Europe and Washington three years into Israel’s war
TEHRAN — Palestinian flags filled streets from London to Washington on Saturday, three years after Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza. A single thread ran through the crowds: the U.S.-backed “ceasefire” declared a year ago has not stopped the killing.
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2026-10-11 21:52
By Batool Subeiti
Yemen breaking the blockade and beginning a new phase
LONDON – How Ansarallah succeeded in breaking the Saudi-imposed air blockade on Yemen is worthy of attention. The process began with an Ansarallah delegation’s trip to Tehran to attend the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, who was assassinated in a joint U.S.-Israeli air raid on his office on February 28.
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2026-10-10 20:42
By staff writer
Trump seethes that no one knows her; Navi Pillay has rattled US and Israel anyway
TEHRAN — Within hours of Navi Pillay being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the American president had shared a post calling her a hater of America and Israel, and his secretary of state had sanctioned an entire international court. Israel summoned Joseph Goebbels.
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2026-10-10 20:42
By Ali Minabi
Three elections on the horizon
TEHRAN – Three elections loom: Israeli Knesset elections, the U.S. midterms, and Palestinian legislative elections.
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2026-10-10 20:41
US sanctions the entire ICC to shield American and Israeli war criminals
TEHRAN — The United States placed the International Criminal Court under sanctions on Friday, October 9, dropping any pretense that its quarrel was limited to individual judges and prosecutors.
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2026-10-09 22:19
Israel kills or wounds a Palestinian in Gaza every 90 minutes under sham ‘ceasefire’
TEHRAN — Israeli forces have killed or wounded a Palestinian in Gaza every 90 minutes on average since last October’s ceasefire declaration, according to humanitarian charity Islamic Relief.
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2026-10-09 22:18
By staff writer
Trump loses Nobel again as jurist behind Gaza genocide findings takes prize
TEHRAN — Donald Trump has repeatedly shown his desperation to obtain the Nobel Peace Prize, but the Norwegian Nobel Committee handed it to the legal investigator who exposed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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2026-10-09 22:17
By staff writer
Saudi Arabia will never break Yemen’s resistance: Ansarallah leader
TEHRAN — Speaking on the tenth anniversary of the Saudi airstrike on Sanaa’s Great Hall, Ansarallah leader Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi declared Thursday that Riyadh’s decade-long war to subjugate Yemen has collapsed into a strategic failure.
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2026-10-07 18:38
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Is the old WMD playbook returning?
TEHRAN — Washington has a familiar habit: when diplomacy becomes inconvenient, it begins speaking the language of threat. Repeated often enough, that language can transform a political dispute into an emergency that supposedly demands military action.
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2026-10-07 18:20
By staff writer
Israel rushing to make its West Bank land grab permanent
'They want the land without its people'
TEHRAN — Itamar Ben-Gvir climbed onto a bulldozer in occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Tuesday. Beneath him lay the ruins of a five-story apartment building. Ten apartments, home to roughly 70 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were reduced to rubble in the al-Tur neighborhood.