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Yesterday 21:25
By Ali Minabi
US-Israel military aid: End of dependence, or a new chapter?
TEHRAN – On November 3, President Trump said the U.S. would end what he described as approximately $4 billion in annual aid to Israel by the end of the year.
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Yesterday 21:25
Bahrain’s Shia leader urges peaceful defense of tortured defendants facing mass trial
TEHRAN — Sheikh Isa Qassim, the senior Shia cleric whom Bahrain’s rulers stripped of his citizenship in 2016, urged the public on Friday to stand peacefully behind 60 clerics awaiting a court verdict on November 8, and warned the monarchy that a case built on “fabricated and defamatory accusations” could carry grave consequences.
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Yesterday 21:24
By staff writer
Trump answers midterm defeat by elevating the ‘extremist’ architect of his rejected agenda
TEHRAN — Just days after Republicans lost control of Congress in Tuesday’s elections, President Donald Trump appointed Stephen Miller as White House Chief of Staff on Friday. Miller, key architect of the administration’s immigration and deportation strategy, replaces Susie Wiles and officially begins his duties on Monday.
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2026-11-06 20:35
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Iran brings Washington to its knees
TEHRAN – “We will bring the enemy to its knees,” martyr Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on the cold night of January 3, 2026.
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2026-11-06 20:26
By Batool Subeiti
Outcome of three years of regional confrontation: The emergence of new alliances
LONDON -- The outcome of the confrontations that have taken place across the West Asia region since October 7 must be understood in the context of all the interconnected fronts, including Gaza, Lebanon, and, most recently, Iran. The U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran will ultimately determine the overall outcome of the conflicts across all these fronts and the changes that have taken place.
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2026-11-06 20:21
France sees biggest day of protests in years
About 575,000 protesters participated in demonstrations across France on Thursday, according to government estimates, marking the biggest single day of protests since a wave of unrest began in September to coincide with a nationwide strike.
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2026-11-04 21:21
Americans punish Trump over the war on Iran
TEHRAN - U.S. voters on Tuesday handed the Democratic Party control over Congress in a biting rebuke to President Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
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2026-11-04 21:19
Vance says war on Iran is ‘real reason’ Republicans lost midterm elections
JD Vance said that the war against Iran doomed the Republican party in the US midterm elections, which are widely seen as a sweeping rebuke of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Guardian reported.
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2026-11-04 21:16
Senator-elect El-Sayed says US tax dollars should not fund Israel’s ‘genocidal war’
Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won a highly coveted Michigan Senate seat on Wednesday, and will become the first Muslim to serve in the upper chamber of Congress in January.
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2026-11-04 21:12
Saudi Arabia in Ansarallah’s sights as Trump sees air campaign futility
TEHRAN - Yemen’s Ansarallah forces are on the march, and America’s ally Saudi Arabia is in their crosshairs.
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2026-11-03 20:16
Living costs, housing, and employment uncertainty have united protesters across Europe
Countries across Europe have been swept by a wave of protests by young people angry at the spiraling cost of living who have little trust in traditional institutions, France 24 reported.
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2026-11-03 20:10
By Ali Minabi
Destroying south Lebanon with impunity
TEHRAN – There was never any ceasefire in Lebanon, only a Lebanese government that signed one and an occupying army that never stopped bombing.
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2026-11-03 19:52
By Batool Subeiti
The legacy of strategic patience
LONDON -- Strategic institution building characterized Iran’s strategic patience phase, whereas now is the moment of testing. The current transformations cannot be separated from the prolonged period that Iran experienced under the leadership of Sayyed Ali Khamenei. It was characterized by a policy of strategic patience and an avoidance of escalation into an all-out confrontation.
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2026-11-02 21:05
397 attacks on West Bankers in Oct, highest monthly total in 20 years: UN
Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank reached an unprecedented level in October, with the number of incidents causing injuries or property damage exceeding all monthly totals recorded since the United Nations began monitoring them in 2006.
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2026-11-02 21:01
By staff writer
Canada, a Washington ally, is proving that US is not the center of the world
TEHRAN – Canada is taking concrete steps to diversify its international relations as Canadian officials, particularly Prime Minister Mark Carney, have come to realize that the United States, especially under Donald Trump, is no longer a predictable or reliable partner.
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2026-11-02 20:53
By Ali Minabi
The Gaza ceasefire that keeps killing
TEHRAN – A year after a ceasefire promised to end the genocidal war, Gaza is enduring a peace that exists in name only.
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2026-11-01 18:56
Iran inflicted at least $5 billion in damage on US military bases: WSJ
Iranian missile and drone strikes have inflicted at least $5 billion in damage on U.S. military bases across the Middle East, according to a sweeping Wall Street Journal investigation that offers the fullest public picture yet of what the war on Iran has cost American forces in the region.
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2026-11-01 18:47
Protestors loot shops in Frankfurt
320,000 hold protests in France as police arrest 770
Protestors looted shops in central Frankfurt late on Saturday as clashes erupted in German cities over the cost of living.
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2026-11-01 18:35
By Ali Minabi
Midterms reopen debate over dominance of wealth in US politics
American democracy is drifting away from principle of ‘one person, one vote’ to a system of ‘one dollar, one vote’
TEHRAN – Campaign spending during the current U.S. midterm election cycle has become the subject of intense political and media debate.
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2026-10-31 19:59
A minority in their homeland who have been facing discrimination and state violence
TEHRAN - “Palestinian citizens of Israel,” also known as the “Palestinians of 1948” or “Palestinians inside Israel” have been subjected to discrimination and violence at the hands of successive Israeli governments.
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2026-10-31 18:27
By Batool Subeiti
Washington's shrinking room for maneuver in West Asia
LONDON -- The current situation is too complex to be summarized in a few brief points, as what is unfolding goes far beyond a direct military confrontation between the United States and Israel on one side, and Iran and its allies on the other.
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2026-10-31 17:55
By Ali Minabi
Can the US wage a swift military operation against Iran?
TEHRAN – Israeli media are still trying to determine whether Trump favored Netanyahu ahead of the Knesset elections or sought to contain him.
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2026-10-30 21:19
Linking Qatar to high Arab voter turnout in Knesset elections is fundamentally misleading
TEHRAN - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has claimed Israel’s election was “stolen” by Palestinian citizens after their record turnout and electoral gains, even as election officials and opposition politicians dismissed the allegation as "baseless".
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2026-10-30 20:57
By staff writer
Hezbollah chief declares US-brokered framework agreement 'effectively nonexistent'
TEHRAN — Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said in a speech on October 28 that the resistance will keep its weapons for as long as Israel occupies Lebanese land.
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2026-10-30 20:45
By staff writer
Trump’s falling popularity hangs over a midterm vote shaped by Iran war, inflation
TEHRAN — Donald Trump is not on the ballot, yet the election is about little else. On November 3, roughly 210 million registered voters will decide all 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 36 governorships.
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2026-10-28 22:53
By Batool Subeiti
Each of the three options facing US in confrontation with Iran carries strategic losses
LONDON - America's available options in the West Asia region are constrained by substantial strategic costs, meaning that none appears to be free of losses. These options can be summarized in three main scenarios: maintaining a state of neither war nor peace, withdrawing without an agreement, or withdrawing under an agreement.
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2026-10-28 22:47
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Lula’s victory once again showed Latin America is not US backyard
TEHRAN — History has a peculiar way of embarrassing those who believe political opponents can simply be imprisoned, exiled or erased. Nelson Mandela walked out of prison after 27 years and became South Africa’s first Black president. Juan Perón returned to Argentina after nearly two decades in exile and reclaimed the presidency.
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2026-10-28 22:35
By staff writer
Knesset stalemate plunges Israel into political paralysis
Netanyahu loses his majority, Eisenkot cannot win one, and the wars go on
TEHRAN — Israel voted in record numbers on October 27 and produced a parliament nobody can run.
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2026-10-27 19:31
By staff writer
Israeli voters chose between ‘rabid yellow dogs and ravenous jackals’
TEHRAN — Israelis queued in numbers not seen in half a century on Tuesday, and Benjamin Netanyahu spent the afternoon begging his own voters to match them.
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2026-10-27 17:59
By Sahar Dadjoo
‘No Kings’ sees public mobilization as essential to defending US democracy, says American activist
Rebecca Winter discusses the role of mass protests, electoral participation and community organizing in challenging authoritarianism
TEHRAN- Rebecca Winter, executive director of Massachusetts 50501, is involved in organizing grassroots efforts to defend democracy and oppose authoritarianism in the United States. The movement, which emerged from a nationwide call for protests in February 2025, seeks to mobilize Americans through demonstrations, boycotts, voter participation and community action.