Model recruiter for Jeffrey Epstein found dead in France

A French professional model recruiter who for over a decade arranged for the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to meet multiple models, was found dead in his home near Paris on Monday.

The world must not permit US, Israel to undermine ICC

TEHRAN - The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established by the Rome Statute, a multilateral treaty adopted on 17 July 1998 in Rome, Italy. The Rome Statute entered into force on 1 July 2002, after 60 countries ratified it, and the court officially began operating on that date.

By Wesam Bahrani

Territory before politics: Why Trump cannot neutralize Hezbollah

TEHRAN – During Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s White House meeting with his U.S. counterpart, Trump again publicly promoted the idea of Syrian forces confronting Hezbollah.

US greenlights Saudi nuclear enrichment without safeguards: CNN

The Trump administration has tentatively agreed to allow Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium without enacting international safeguards intended to prevent nuclear weapons development, according to sources familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by CNN.

By Wesam Bahrani

Netanyahu turns his deterrence dilemma into a nuclear gamble

TEHRAN – Benjamin Netanyahu’s use of Dimona as a platform to threaten Iran exposes the failure of decisive victory and the erosion of Zionist deterrence.

By Wesam Bahrani

Fate of Palestinians in Gaza: emigration or death?

TEHRAN – It is impossible to say with confidence that Palestinians in Gaza can endure much longer without solutions that remain nowhere in sight.

Palestinians celebrate Spain’s World Cup victory

Hundreds of Palestinians across Gaza and the Occupied West Bank celebrated Spain’s World Cup victory, gathering around makeshift screens, cheering in stadiums and taking to the streets in celebration of Spain’s victory and the support its government has given to Palestine.

Yemen declares naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in response to ‘oppressive siege’

Yemen announced on Monday it was imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, a move that opens a new front against the United States in its war on Iran and widens the threat to global oil supplies and trade beyond the Persian Gulf.

Ben-Gvir's crocodile prison guards reflect his bloodlust

TEHRAN - Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman from the Likud Party has acted in accordance with the wishes of National Security Minister Itamar Ben- Gvir to use crocodiles as prison guards where Palestinians are kept.

By staff writer

All inhumane practices aim to depopulate Gaza of Palestinians

TEHRAN – Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians, coupled with efforts to drive them from their homeland, continues unabated.

Mamdani exploring whether he can arrest 'war criminal' Netanyahu if he visits New York

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he was reviewing whether his administration could arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if as expected the Israeli prime minister visits the city for the UN General Assembly in September, the Guardian reported.

By Wesam Bahrani

America’s financial stranglehold on Iraq

TEHRAN – For more than two decades after the 2003 invasion, Iraq has rebuilt its economy around an unusual financial reality: the world’s fifth-largest oil producer depends on a foreign power for access to the currency that keeps its economy functioning.

By staff writer

US raids on civilian infrastructure are purely barbaric

TEHRAN – The U.S. military has not only targeted military facilities in Iran’s southern coastal provinces. It has also been striking wheat silos, water desalination plants, and electricity infrastructure.

By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi

The illusion of victory: Why America cannot bomb its way out of the war

HAFIZABAD, Pakistan - The American people were never asked if they wanted the war against Iran. They never heard a single speech explaining why their sons and daughters must fight and die in the Persian Gulf.

By Behnam Molayee

Trump’s regional agenda to serve Israel

TEHRAN – The United States appears to be coordinating with some countries to rearrange the regional landscape by applying pressure on Syria, Lebanon and Iraq to serve Israeli interests.

By staff writer

Israel failing to repair brutal reputation among Americans

TEHRAN- Finally, the extremism and criminality exercised by Israel are backfiring and are causing concern among the regime’s officials.

By Wesam Bahrani

Why do Lebanese authorities insist on the path of surrender?

TEHRAN – Following the sixth round of face-to-face talks between the Lebanese and Israeli governments, critics continue to question the Lebanese authorities’ approach to issues of occupation and sovereignty.

By Wesam Bahrani

Bloodthirsty Netanyahu scrambling to save political career

TEHRAN – The chances of Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, remaining in power do not appear promising.

Garsha Vazirian

Rubio’s crusade to dismantle the ICC is a global confession of guilt

The US war on international law is designed to shield genocidal atrocities

TEHRAN — Marco Rubio’s July 13 Wall Street Journal broadside reads like the frantic howl of an imperial political class that has lost control of the global narrative.

Israel Katz seeks pardon for soldier who killed Palestinian

Israeli war minister Israel Katz has requested that President Isaac Herzog pardon Elor Azaria, a former Israeli soldier convicted for killing an incapacitated Palestinian in Hebron, Israeli media reported.

By Wesam Bahrani

From Macron to Trump to Israel: What is Syria’s share?

TEHRAN – French President Macron surprised everyone by visiting Syria as the first Western leader to meet self-declared president Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus.

By Garsha Vazirian

Yemen draws a hard line in the skies, imposes a new equation

The bombing of Sana’a airport drags Riyadh into a self-destructive strategic trap

TEHRAN — The desperate Saudi bombardment of Sana’a International Airport on July 13 has backfired, exposing the deep panic of the Riyadh, Washington, and Tel Aviv axis.

By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi

Demon has gone to hell, Netanyahu and Trump are next  

Lindsey Graham spent his entire life selling his soul for dirty money

 HAFIZABAD, Pakistan – Now, Senator Lindsey Graham is in a dark grave. The man who spent decades screaming for the destruction of Iran is silent. And the world is better off without him and other like-minded persons. 

By Wesam Bahrani 

Is Netanyahu headed for war as Israeli elections approach?

TEHRAN – With Israel’s elections approaching, will Netanyahu’s government attempt to escape its strategic predicament by pushing forward and returning to an intense war? Or will it return to politics, seek compromises, and cooperate with more realistic initiatives?

By Garsha Vazirian

Yemen's air siege is bravely broken despite Saudi bombardment

Hostile Saudi warplanes fail to stop a historic civilian lifeline

TEHRAN — The brutal aerial embargo that has suffocated the Yemeni people for over a decade has finally collapsed.

By Garsha Vazirian

A chicken hawk named ‘Lady G’ and the innocent lives spent to feed his imperial sadism

The ledger lines of a closeted warmonger owned by Israel and military contractors

TEHRAN — The announcement blamed sudden cardiac arrest on July 11, 2026, but the heart inside Lindsey Graham had withered into an instrument of imperial sadism decades ago. Returning to his Capitol Hill home from a weapons-peddling trip to Kyiv, the 71-year-old senator from South Carolina collapsed and “died suddenly” in his room.

By Wesam Bahrani

The West Bank: Between neglect and settlement expansion

TEHRAN – As the region is engulfed by wars and fast-moving developments that are difficult for observers to keep up with, attention to what is happening in the West Bank has steadily declined. Public interest has waned.

By staff writer

Netanyahu’s remarks on settler violence ring hollow

TEHRAN - Israeli police admitted that four settlers were arrested after an attack on CNN and other journalists in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.