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.

By staff writer

Handala breaches Israeli military’s media intelligence hub, leaks thousands of files

TEHRAN — Handala said on Sunday that it broke into the Israeli military’s Media Intelligence Monitoring and Analysis Unit and put more than 500 classified documents and tens of thousands of internal messages online.

By staff writer

Trump’s White House chaotically turns on itself as Republicans brace for defeat

TEHRAN — A press secretary hired on a Friday and gone the next. An ambassador’s ouster announced during her only briefing. Loyalists feuding over money while the chief of staff’s family draws scrutiny. With the November 3 midterms less than three weeks away, Donald Trump’s White House has stopped hiding its disorder.

By Ali Minabi

Peace with Israel: A Lebanese illusion?

TEHRAN – The occupying Israeli regime continues to wage almost daily aggression against towns and villages in southern Lebanon.

By Mahdi Zolfaghari

Beijing’s mediating power in international crises

TEHRAN – In the new international order, the concept of “power” is no longer defined solely by the number of nuclear warheads, overseas military bases, or classical security alliances; rather, the new geometry of global power is shaped by the capacity of supply chains, currency exchanges, infrastructure investments, and economic interdependence.

By staff writer

Caught in an imbroglio, Trump resorts to more blatant lies and misleading claims

TEHRAN – Donald Trump appears to be losing his grip on reality as the November 3 congressional midterm elections approach.

By staff writer

Israeli firm weaponized online ads to hack targets, spy on hundreds of millions

TEHRAN — An Israeli advertising company turned the banner ad into a hacking tool, and for at least two years the companies running the world’s ad platforms failed to stop it.

By staff writer

Saudi Arabia’s billions in arms fail to buy security

TEHRAN - Saudi Arabia spends tens of billions of dollars on arms every year, but is struggling to protect key assets such as airports, refineries and pipelines from missiles and drones fired by Ansarallah, also called the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF).

By staff writer

Republicans face expanding midterm backlash over Iran war, living costs

TEHRAN — Donald Trump says the approaching U.S. elections will not change his position regarding Iran. Republican candidates are already changing theirs.

By Ali Minabi

Can Saudi Arabia find a viable path out of Yemen?

TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia is once again testing its options for dealing with Ansarallah, hoping that what failed the first time might succeed the next.

Baku arrests dozens as hijab ban empties schools

TEHRAN — “I don’t have a single B on my report card. Is this the respect I get?” The girl standing at the school gate was crying, and the officials in front of her did not move. “Have I ever done anything wrong? And now you’re telling me I can’t enter the school. Why should I have to give up my religion?”

By staff writer

Trump targets anti-war Muslim congresswoman three weeks before midterms

TEHRAN — U.S. federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant early Monday morning at the Washington residence of Representative Ilhan Omar. Law enforcement personnel blocked off the surrounding street and removed multiple boxes labeled as “seized evidence” from the premises.

German silence on Gaza and the West Bank ‘has been loud’: Philippe Sands

Winner of German Book Trade's Peace Prize insists on ‘excavating matters that some wish to hide’ 

TEHRAN — Philippe Sands, a professor of law at University College London and human rights lawyer at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, has criticized Germany’s “silence on crimes committed on the territory of Palestine, in Gaza and in the West Bank.”

By staff writer

Yemen Leaves Riyadh Grounded

Repeated strikes close Riyadh airport and shatter Saudi air defenses as Ansarallah enforces its 'blockade for blockade' doctrine

TEHRAN — Riyadh’s airport has been hit five times since Tuesday, October 6, by Saudi authorities’ own count, and the government cannot promise a sixth will not come. On Saturday, a missile struck King Khalid International Airport, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 300, according to the kingdom. On Sunday, another projectile set Terminal 4 on fire. On Monday, the Saudi civil aviation authority extended the shutdown.

By staff writer

Midterm panic pushes Trump to trade Zelensky for cheaper diesel

TEHRAN — With the 2026 U.S. midterm elections a month away and diesel at $6.28 a gallon, Donald Trump went looking for someone to blame and settled on Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, whose official presidential mandate expired long ago and whose continued rule under suspended elections remains constitutionally questionable.