Trump’s incompetent diplomats and negotiators

Personal business ties and loyalty are Trump’s yardstick for naming diplomats

TEHRAN – President Trump has consistently favored real estate developers, major business executives, and corporate negotiators for high-profile diplomatic and envoy positions.

By Garsha Vazirian

Why Bahrain’s monarchy treats its people as an enemy

TEHRAN — There is an unspoken rule driving the security apparatus inside Manama: a population you deeply distrust can never be governed, only contained. The Al Khalifa monarchy, an absolute Sunni ruling elite dominating a native Shia majority, acts less like a sovereign government and more like an anxious security regime.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israel suffers more casualties in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime has acknowledged that another soldier has been killed and three others injured during clashes with Hezbollah resistance fighters in southern Lebanon.

Revelation: Truce in Gaza is a ‘joke’

‘Shooting Palestinian children while playing is documented’

TEHRAN - The Israeli combat soldier saw his teammates yelling in celebration, congratulating one another. They had just struck a vehicle of Palestinians driving near the Israeli-controlled part of the Gaza Strip, killing everyone inside.

By Garsha Vazirian

Dadi Barnea’s strategic suicide and Mossad’s unwitting gifts that strengthened Iran

TEHRAN – When David “Dadi” Barnea packs his boxes at the Mossad headquarters in Glilot this June, he will leave behind a shattered agency and a legacy defined by profound strategic incompetence.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah inflicts more casualties on Israeli troops

TEHRAN – The Zionist regime has reported increasing casualties among the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) as it attempts to portray its aggression and expanded occupation in southern Lebanon as a success.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah wages heroic resistance against Israeli aggression

TEHRAN – Hezbollah has detailed a wide range of operations against Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), installations, and vehicles across occupied southern Lebanon and northern settlements.

By Garsha Vazirian

American-Israeli ‘ceasefires’ are a trap; Gaza is the proof

TEHRAN — On May 28, at the Ein Prat Leadership Academy inside an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, Benjamin Netanyahu dropped the final pretense of Washington’s diplomatic framework.

By Garsha Vazirian

The shock absorber doctrine and the ‘Abraham’ suicide pact

TEHRAN – The old American playbook in the Middle East has completely shed its diplomatic veneer. Arab capitals are not treated as sovereign partners; instead, they have been strategically downgraded to regional shock absorbers designed to absorb the geopolitical, economic, and military blows meant for Tel Aviv and Washington.

By Wesam Bahrani 

America’s support for Lebanon: A deadly friendship

TEHRAN – The lessons drawn from the history of U.S. relations, whether with governments or non-state actors across the world and the region, point to a dramatic and painful end to such alliances.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah kills two more Israeli soldiers in Lebanon

TEHRAN – Israeli media announced the deaths of two soldiers and the injury of several others “as a result of Hezbollah drones.”

By Garsha Vazirian

Israel’s old sabotage playbook is back

TEHRAN — The visceral, coordinated backlash from Tel Aviv and Washington to the recent diplomatic openings between Iran and the United States has exposed the underlying fragility of the Zionist war machine.

Widening divide between the US and Europe

TEHRAN – The world is living through one of the most sensitive periods in international relations, a time when the “Atlantic Alliance” has faced a storm called Trumpism after decades of stability.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah strikes Israel’s Iron Dome launchers

TEHRAN – The Lebanese resistance is striking at the core of the Israeli regime’s security infrastructure, targeting advanced defense systems built over the years to protect settlements in the north.

By Garsha Vazirian

The irreversible shattering of Israel’s diplomatic armor

TEHRAN — The profound diplomatic unraveling confronting Israel in mid-2026 is neither a passing reputational crisis nor a temporary political phase that will vanish once the guns fall silent.

By Garsha Vazirian

NATO grapples with its unraveling under Washington’s predatory hegemony

TEHRAN — The official communiques emerging from the NATO foreign ministers’ gathering in Helsingborg, Sweden, spoke of enhanced burden sharing and a stronger, fairer alliance. Behind those anodyne formulations lies a transatlantic partnership in an advanced state of political decomposition.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah’s war media footage shakes Israel

TEHRAN – While the Zionist regime relentlessly broadcasts graphic scenes of devastation in Lebanon, how did Hezbollah successfully turn war media into a pivotal and powerful battlefield weapon?

By Garsha Vazirian

We can all thrive when the Abu Dhabi syndicate folds

TEHRAN — The Al Nahyan crime family has achieved a grim, singular trifecta: it has alienated its local citizenry, reduced its nine-million-strong migrant workforce to indentured cogs, and transformed a historic mercantile hub into a forward-operating base for the genocidal U.S.-Israeli military-intelligence complex.

Disgusting remarks against Sumud activists

Ben Gvir tramples human dignity of philanthropists

TEHRAN — Israeli Transport Minister Miri Regev has boasted about the mistreatment of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla detained by Israel, saying that “prison is the place for terrorism supporters”.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah drones wreak havoc on IOF in southern Lebanon 

TEHRAN – Hezbollah continues to confront Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in southern Lebanon and target soldier and vehicle gatherings with drones.

By Wesam Bahrani

Life in Gaza after the “Yellow Line”

TEHRAN – Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued to maintain a high level of activity, primarily in eastern Gaza City and Khan Younis, resulting in civilian casualties and damage to critical facilities.

Persian Gulf war raises risk of environmental disaster

TEHRAN – The dangerous war that the U.S. and Israel jointly started against Iran at the end of February has incredibly increased the risks of an environmental disaster, a Princeton University researcher warns.

By Garsha Vazirian

Inside the obsessive-compulsive loop of Trump’s digital noise machine

Ghostwritten tirades, em-dashed bluster, and cartoonish AI fantasies reveal Trump’s pathetic unraveling

TEHRAN — Donald Trump’s Truth Social feed is a daily ledger of strategic exhaustion that mistakes noise for authority. The feed functions as a round-the-clock psychological stage where the American presidency is performed in public view.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah pounds IOF with FPV drones 

TEHRAN – The Lebanese resistance movement has announced more operations targeting the Israeli regime’s military positions and equipment inside Lebanese territory.