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Yesterday 19:47
By Shahrokh Saei
From cocaine to crude: Unmasking the U.S. agenda in Venezuela
TEHRAN – U.S. media reports have blown the lid off the White House’s plans for regime change in Venezuela, revealing flimsy excuses for possible military action that simply don’t hold water.
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Yesterday 19:25
By Sahar Dadjoo
“No Kings” slogan unites diverse voices, says American scholar
Philip Rocco notes the movement’s strength lies in its broad symbolism that connects workers, immigrants, and defenders of civil rights
TEHRAN – In an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times, Philip Rocco, a professor of political science at Marquette University, examines the rise of the “No Kings” protests across the United States.
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Yesterday 19:21
By Wesam Bahrani
Palestinian factions reject foreign governance
TEHRAN – Palestinian factions unitedly demand self-determination, rejecting foreign control and asserting local governance over Gaza.
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Yesterday 15:37
Israeli strikes kill at least three in latest violation of Lebanon ceasefire
In the latest near-daily violations of a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon in place since November 2024, Israeli military aircraft have carried out separate strikes against positions in southern Lebanon, killing at least three individuals, Press TV reported Saturday.
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Yesterday 15:07
Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire began
A total of 93 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the ceasefire came into effect on October 11, Al Jazeera reported Saturday, citing Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
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2025-10-24 19:30
By Garsha Vazirian
Maritime strikes, mainland threats: U.S. military shadows Venezuela amid regime change whispers
TEHRAN – A concentrated U.S. military presence in the Caribbean — warships, patrol planes, MQ-9 drones, an F-35 squadron, and bomber flights — has sharply narrowed the political and diplomatic space around Venezuela.
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2025/10/24
By Shahab Sarmadi
West Bank annexation theater: How Israel’s Knesset plays good cop, bad cop
TEHRAN – The recent votes in Israel’s Knesset on bills to annex parts of the West Bank have drawn worldwide attention. At first glance, they appear to be a major political confrontation. Far-right politicians like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who live in illegal settlements, pushed strongly for the bills. Avi Maoz of the Noam party declared that “the time has come to apply sovereignty,” invoking biblical claims to the Palestinian land.
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2025-10-24 18:46
By Wesam Bahrani
Cruel blockade worsens Gaza crisis
TEHRAN – Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza flagrantly violates international law and amounts to continuous collective punishment of Palestinians.
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2025-10-24 18:21
By Sahar Dadjoo
“No Kings” protests are reaction to Trump’s authoritarian drift: ex-CIA official
Paul Pillar says public demonstrations are the last line of defense against erosion of democratic norms
TEHRAN- In an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times, Paul R. Pillar, a veteran intelligence analyst and former senior CIA official, examined the emergence of the “No Kings” movement in the United States as a grassroots reaction to what many see as Donald Trump’s authoritarian drift during his second term.
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2025-10-22 18:09
By Wesam Bahrani
Will Netanyahu resume Gaza genocide?
TEHRAN – The New York Times reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could end the Gaza ceasefire and return to the genocidal war against Palestinians.
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2025-10-22 17:50
By Shahab Sarmadi
U.S. push to disarm PMF endangers Iraq’s security and stability
TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent call for the disarmament of Iraqi anti-terror groups, particularly the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of Iraq’s security realities and a continuation of Washington’s interventionist approach.
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2025-10-22 16:22
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Al-Ghamari’s enduring legacy in Yemen’s defense industry
BEIRUT— The late Lieutenant General Mohammed Nasser Al-Ghamari (Sayyed Hashem) stands as one of the most distinguished leaders in modern Yemeni history—a symbol of steadfastness in the face of American-Israeli-Saudi aggression against Yemen.
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2025-10-22 15:58
By Shahab Sarmadi
Vance-Netanyahu talks expose US-Israel maneuvers in Gaza
TEHRAN – US President Donald Trump has publicly declared that his administration’s priority is to end the war in Gaza through a ceasefire. His message has been framed as an effort to stop further escalation, but the visit of Vice President JD Vance to Jerusalem (al-Quds), where he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shows that the ceasefire is also being used as a political tool to protect Israel and reshape regional alliances.
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2025-10-21 18:33
By Sondoss Al Asaad
The animalistic behavior of US envoy towards Lebanon intensifies
BEIRUT—In a dangerous escalation that highlights American intimidation against Lebanon, U.S. envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack has unleashed a series of inflammatory statements through his X account, threatening Lebanon with civil war and Israeli aggression if it refuses to normalize relations with Israel under the so-called Abraham Accords.
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2025-10-21 18:29
By Wesam Bahrani
Evidence of systematic torture of Palestinians is horrific
TEHRAN – The discovery of 135 mutilated Palestinian bodies returned to Gaza has shed light on a disturbing pattern of torture within the Israeli occupation regime’s prison system.
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2025-10-21 18:26
By Shahab Sarmadi
Beyond the battlefield: How Gaza conflict drives Israelis abroad
TEHRAN – Israel is facing an unprecedented wave of emigration linked to the ongoing war in Gaza and deepening political unrest at home. A new report by the Knesset Research and Information Center shows that more than 125,000 Israeli citizens moved abroad between early 2022 and mid-2024 — the largest loss of human capital in Israel’s history over such a short period.
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2025-10-21 13:57
Sanae Takaichi becomes Japan’s 104th leader in historic first
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who has been appointed as Japan's 104th prime minister, has become the first woman to hold the office in the nation's constitutional history, Yomiuri Shimbun reported Tuesday.
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2025-10-21 13:54
EU under fire for halting Israel sanctions
The EU has been criticized for pausing sanctions against Israel in response to Donald Trump’s peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, as the fragile ceasefire came under threat.
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2025-10-21 13:41
Qatar’s Emir condemns Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza, continued ceasefire violations
Israel’s war on Gaza has been nothing but genocide, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said while condemning Israel’s continued violation of the ceasefire agreement, Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-10-20 22:16
By Bahram Moradi
Extremists in Israel are full of hatred against Palestinians
TEHRAN - Netanyahu and his co-ideologists, such as Itmar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, Amichai Eliyahu, and many others, are full of hatred against Palestinians even when there is not a hot war. If it was not so, there was no justification for so much cruelty against Palestinians and no justification for not settling this decades-long conflict.
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2025-10-20 20:25
By Shahrokh Saei
Caribbean crisis: U.S. military actions fuel Latin American pushback
TEHRAN – The United States’ deadly attacks on vessels in Caribbean waters off Venezuela and Colombia, coupled with President Donald Trump’s escalating threats, have thrust the region into global attention. Since early September, nearly 30 people have been killed in strikes that the Trump administration claims are aimed at dismantling drug trafficking networks.
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2025-10-20 19:52
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Sit-in before Iranian embassy in Lebanon to seek Iran’s help for reconstruction
BEIRUT — At a time when some Lebanese politicians are racing to repeat Washington’s narratives about the “Iranian occupation of Lebanon,” the people of the border villages in the South are presenting the exact opposite picture: The residents of the border villages staged a sit-in in front of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, not to protest against it, but to seek Iran’s assistance to return to their villages from which they were displaced by repeated Israeli attacks.
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2025-10-20 19:32
By Wesam Bahrani
Israel wages new round of attacks on Gazans in violation of truce
TEHRAN – Israeli occupation forces have killed some 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire agreement on October 10.
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2025-10-20 14:59
As post-truce Gaza death toll nears 100, reports say Rafah blast was Israeli-triggered
Since the October truce took effect, Gaza’s health and government media offices say at least 97 Palestinians have been killed and some 230 wounded, while Israeli forces are accused of roughly 80 violations of the agreement.
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2025-10-19 20:44
By Wesam Bahrani
Deadly Israeli attacks threaten Gaza truce
TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime commits further violations of the Gaza truce agreement, killing civilians and shutting down the Rafah border crossing.
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2025-10-19 20:27
By Shahab Sarmadi
‘No Kings’ protests against Trump reveal deep divisions in U.S.
TEHRAN – The “No Kings” protests that took place on Saturday across the United States revealed more than opposition to President Donald Trump’s policies—they exposed the nation’s deep political, social, and ideological divisions.
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2025-10-19 19:44
By Sahar Dadjoo
Despite hunger and trauma, reporters keep Gaza’s story alive: CPJ regional director
Sara Qudah says resilience of journalists in Gaza is nothing short of extraordinary
TEHRAN – Despite the recent Gaza ceasefire, the situation for Palestinian journalists remains tragic. Newsrooms lie in ruins, dozens of reporters are displaced or detained, and access for international media continues to be completely blocked by Israel.
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2025-10-19 15:08
Handala hacker group exposes 17 “architects of destruction” in Israeli military
The pro-Palestinian hacker group Handala has released what it says are the identities and personal details of 17 senior Israeli military scientists, describing the disclosure as “the beginning of accountability for the architects of war and destruction.”
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2025-10-19 14:57
Hamas rejects US allegations of imminent ceasefire violation in Gaza
Hamas has rejected a statement from the U.S. State Department in which it cited “credible reports” indicating the Palestinian group would imminently violate the ceasefire deal with Israel, Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-10-19 14:54
Israel strikes Rafah as ceasefire frays; Gaza civilians bear the cost
Israeli aircraft struck Rafah on Sunday in what Gaza authorities and independent observers called a breach of the fragile ceasefire that began earlier this month, rejecting Israel’s claim that the attack was a response to fire on its troops.