By staff writer

Israeli troops shoot children and abduct medical workers in West Bank

TEHRAN — Israeli forces and settler militias are executing an aggressive campaign of violence across the West Bank.

By Ali Minabi

What chances does the Cairo agreement on Gaza have of succeeding?

TEHRAN – Gaza’s residents are waiting eagerly for the genocide to come to an end and a sense of security prevail, but Israel’s refusal to compromise and the challenges of implementing the Cairo agreement make a quick breakthrough unlikely.

By Ali Minabi

Iraqi resistance group sets conditions over weapons

Kataeb Hezbollah demands full exit of US forces, dissolution of Peshmerga and expulsion of Turkish forces in northern Iraq

TEHRAN – An official from the Iraqi resistance group Kataeb Hezbollah has issued a sharply worded statement setting out conditions for any future cooperation with the Iraqi government over the question of weapons held by the resistance forces.

By staff writer

Trump’s threat to bomb Oman triggers backlash across Arab world and US

TEHRAN — Donald Trump triggered international backlash after threatening military strikes against Oman, reportedly punishing the Persian Gulf nation for negotiating a maritime traffic arrangement with Iran.

By staff writer

Israel expands assaults across Lebanon’s Jabal Amel despite US mediation claims

TEHRAN — The Israeli military unleashed a large wave of violence across southern Lebanon on Monday. According to reports from local media, drones dropped explosives on the Ali al-Taher heights. Artillery batteries pounded Mansouri, Shihin, and Wadi al-Salouqi. Two artillery shells struck the terrain between Zebqin and Yater. A reconnaissance drone dropped a sound bomb on Haddatha, followed by intense machine gun fire directed at local residents.

By staff writer

Yemen strikes Saudi-linked mercenary concentrations in Mokha

TEHRAN — The Yemeni Armed Forces have shattered the illusion of a frozen conflict by unleashing a devastating wave of ballistic missiles and drones against Saudi-affiliated military concentrations across Mokha and Marib.

By Ali Minabi

Historic Zionist perceptions of Lebanon

TEHRAN – In southern Lebanon, the occupying Israeli regime is erasing the region’s entire civilizational landscape by demolishing and bulldozing homes, buildings, graves and trees.

Ben-Gvir says Palestinian detainees should be hanged ‘one by one’

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says he will do everything in his power to secure the execution of Palestinian prisoners, saying he hopes they will be hanged "one by one."

By Ali Minabi

New Israeli massacres in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN – The Israeli regime has waged a new round of aggression in Lebanon. The latest massacre has killed a family with women and children among the casualties.

By Garsha Vazirian

The world not thankful to Iran for its sacrifices

Iran and the Resistance Front have been paying the price to keep the “Grater Israel” project incomplete

TEHRAN — Close your eyes and trace the borders Washington and Tel Aviv intended to draw.

By staff writer

Katz’s covert plan for full annexation of West Bank

TEHRAN - Israel Katz, the so-called Israeli defense minister, announced on Friday that he had instructed the military to draft a plan to transfer enforcement powers for civilian matters in the occupied West Bank from the army to the police, a move that is viewed as a full annexation of the West Bank.

By Garsha Vazirian

‘Food Truck One,’ expandable decoys, and the propaganda ruin

TEHRAN — The official narrative survived for a month. It portrayed an American president boarding Air Force One on July 8 following a NATO summit in Ankara, waving to the cameras, and flying west. The reality was far more humiliating.

By staff writer

From Trump to Lebanon: Delusion of decision-making

TEHRAN – When politics loses touch with reality, facts can quickly give way to fiction. The Trump model offers one example; its echoes in Lebanon offer another.

By staff writer

Why is Yemen confronting Saudi Arabia?

TEHRAN – Operations by Yemeni Armed Forces targeting Saudi Aramco facilities and imposing a naval blockade on Saudi-linked shipping aim to pressure Riyadh to lift its blockade on Yemen and, ultimately, secure Yemeni sovereignty.

By Seyda Farheen Naqi Mossavi 

Iran is not Venezuela: Hormuz Strait and limits of US power

TEHRAN - The Americans are masters of grand pronouncements and miserable failures in execution.

By staff writer

Yemeni forces attack Saudi Aramco oil facility

TEHRAN – The Yemeni Armed Forces have announced that they targeted a Saudi oil refinery in response to the violation of Yemeni airspace.

By Garsha Vazirian

The sealed watermelon of the Mecca Agreement

TEHRAN — Three leaders signed a promise inside Al-Safa Palace on Friday: an armed attack on Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Pakistan will be treated as an attack on all three. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan compared the clause to NATO’s Article 5. The full text stays sealed, unread outside the rooms where it was drafted. Persian has a phrase for exactly this situation: a watermelon still in its rind, “Hendevaneh-ye dar basteh.”

By Garsha Vazirian

A beat written in blood across Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran

TEHRAN — 28 years ago today, Iranian reporter Mahmoud Saremi radioed his newsroom from the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif as Taliban fighters came through the gate. He identified himself, reported that the city had fallen, and asked what he should do next. Hours later he was dead, along with eight Iranian diplomats.

By staff writer

America’s ‘supercarrier’ is a floating nightmare as food and hope run out

TEHRAN — The facade of American military omnipotence is rotting from the inside out. In a tear-filled banquet room in San Diego on Thursday, the families of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln shattered the silence surrounding Washington and Tel Aviv’s disastrous war against Iran.

By Staff Writer

Why is Trump suddenly reviving his Gaza plan?

TEHRAN – Trump’s statement about an agreement to disarm Hamas raises questions about his real objectives and reflects the continuing U.S. bias toward Israel, casting doubt on the prospects of achieving lasting peace.

‘It is time for the US military to leave Mideast,’ says special assistant to Biden

Michael Fuchs calls the Iran war ‘epic disaster’, says US support for Tel Aviv has morphed into a ‘blank check’ for Israel

TEHRAN – Michael Fuchs, a director at the Open Society Foundations, says “it is time for the United States military to leave” the Middle East, noting that the stationing of the U.S. military in the region “has contributed to instability and destruction.”

By Garsha Vazirian

Yemen flips the battlefield on Saudi Arabia

Sanaa’s shifting military doctrine traps Riyadh as the kingdom seeks external shields

TEHRAN — The video clips from August 6 were unmistakable. Flames consumed a desert encampment. A row of armored vehicles sat reduced to twisted metal. The Yemeni Armed Forces struck first.

Saudi ⁠Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey sign ⁠joint defense pact

TEHRAN - Saudi ⁠Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a ⁠joint defense agreement, officially known as the Mecca Defense Pact, on Friday, deepening ‌security cooperation.