Who is the Hebrew-speaking ‘fox applying for the henhouse guard job?’

Lana Nusseibeh’s close alignment with Israel shadows her bid to lead the UN

TEHRAN — Having spent years whitewashing Abu Dhabi’s submission to Israeli interests, Lana Nusseibeh is now being promoted by her handlers to run the United Nations.

By staff writer

Lula defeats pro-Israel Bolsonaro, dealing Trump a major Latin American blow

TEHRAN — Brazilians re-elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday, October 25, giving the 80-year-old leftist a fourth term and the Trump administration its most consequential defeat in the Western Hemisphere. Lula took 51.8 percent to Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s 48.2, a lead of more than 4 million votes, three weeks after trailing by 2.2 million. No one had ever won Brazil’s presidency after finishing second in the first round.

Saudi Arabia turns to US AI system as Yemeni pressure mounts

TEHRAN – Failing to protect itself and its proxies in southern Yemen, Saudi Arbia has turned to an American-AI generated system to unsuccessfully counter Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF), also known as Ansarallah. 

By staff writer

Israel seizes civilian houses in al-Khalil, establishes frontline military posts

TEHRAN — Israeli forces have sealed every major entry point into al-Khalil (Hebron), driving more than 2,200 Palestinians out of their homes and transforming entire residential quarters into military barracks.

By staff writer

France meets second weekend of mass protests with 70,000 police, arrests 1,314

TEHRAN — French police arrested 1,314 people and sealed off city centers on Saturday as hundreds of thousands marched for a second consecutive weekend. Rather than addressing the root causes of the nationwide unrest, the government focused entirely on silencing the demonstrators through state repression.

By Ali Minabi

Israeli elections: What can Palestinians expect? 

TEHRAN — Israeli elections, scheduled for October 27, are about more than who becomes the next prime minister or whether Netanyahu stays in power.

By staff writer

Macklemore says ‘being human is not complicated’ as sold-out Gaza benefit tour opens

TEHRAN — American rapper Macklemore returned to the stage Thursday night at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre with an explicit message of solidarity for Palestine.

By staff writer

American are done paying for Trump’s family business

TEHRAN — Donald Trump won the White House promising to “Make America Great Again,” then promised Americans a short, cheap war on Iran. They got a closed Strait of Hormuz, Brent crude above $116 a barrel, and gasoline past $5 a gallon in several states. He and his family got a windfall.

By Ali Minabi

Operation al-Khalil exposes limits of Israeli aggression

TEHRAN – The resistance operation in al-Khalil (Hebron), which took place just days before the Israeli elections, was far more than an isolated security incident.

Palestinian fighters kill 2 Israeli soldiers in fierce Al-Khalil confrontation

TEHRAN — Two Palestinian fighters from Al-Khalil (Hebron) held off Israeli troops for more than 20 minutes on Friday morning, killing two occupying soldiers before they were martyred at the Farsh al-Hawa checkpoint on the city’s northern edge.

By staff writer

Kushner’s hacked iPhone exposed billions in secret Saudi and Emirati money

TEHRAN — Dutch military hackers sat inside Jared Kushner’s iPhone in 2018 and watched him log in to a Dubai bank account that had taken in hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new book by journalist Matthew Cole.

Why is Europe on fire this October?

The people of Europe are paying for a war they never chose

TEHRAN — It started with teenagers blockading their schools. Three weeks later (October 17), about 550,000 people marched through French towns and cities, according to Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez. Unions say 800,000.

By Ranjan Solomon

NAZA: When technology makes killing a calculation

GOA, India – There are films that recount the horrors of war, films that make audiences feel the pain of those who endure it, and films that take us somewhere far more disturbing: into the machinery that makes such horrors possible. NAZA, the documentary by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, belongs to this third category. It asks us to look beyond the images of destruction that have become tragically familiar from Gaza and confront the systems, institutional cultures and technological processes through which the destruction of human life can be organised, assessed and justified.

By Ali Minabi

Gaza’s battle for hearts and minds

TEHRAN – More than three years after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the Palestinian cause has seen internal and external shifts.

By staff writer

Trump approval crashes to record low 31% as Iran war backlash mounts

TEHRAN — American voters are turning decisively against President Donald Trump on the eve of the November 3 midterm elections, pushing his approval rating down to 31 percent in a nationwide Reuters/Ipsos survey published on Tuesday, October 20. The figure marks the lowest point across both of his presidential terms.

By Ali Minabi

Israel’s invisible hand in the war on Yemen

TEHRAN – The Israeli strategy in Yemen centers on exploiting the war between Saudi Arabia and the Sanaa government to establish a new reality.

European diplomats feel the sting of settler violence in West Bank

Shielding Israel from accountability, supplying it with advanced weapons, and turning a blind eye to its unlawful and cruel acts against Palestinians for nearly eight decades have finally come back to haunt Europe and the United States. The consequences have reached a point where even European diplomats, journalists, and other officials are no longer safe from the emboldened Israeli occupiers.

By Ali Minabi

The decline of US dominance in West Asia

TEHRAN – Several factors have contributed to the decline of U.S. hegemony in West Asia.