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Yesterday 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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Yesterday 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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Yesterday 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.
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2026-10-26 20:17
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.
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2026-10-26 20:15
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.
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2026-10-25 20:30
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.
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2026-10-25 20:29
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.
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2026-10-25 20:29
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.
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2026-10-25 20:28
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.
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2026-10-24 20:48
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.
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2026-10-24 20:33
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.
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2026-10-24 20:29
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.
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2026-10-23 22:38
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.
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2026-10-23 22:37
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.
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2026-10-23 18:41
King Fahd Airport, Defense Ministry attacked as US tells diplomats to leave Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN - At least two people were killed in a strike on a major airport in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday evening, as Washington ordered some U.S. diplomatic staff to leave the kingdom following weeks of deadly attacks by the Nasrallah military forces.
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2026-10-21 20:47
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
The emperor has no clothes: Trump’s parade of power and the naked American empire
TEHRAN - In 1837, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen published The Emperor’s New Clothes, the story of a vain ruler deceived into believing he was wearing magnificent garments invisible to fools and those unfit for office. His ministers praised what did not exist, and the public followed, until a child finally cried out: “But he hasn't got anything on!”
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2026-10-21 20:46
Greece’s alliances with UAE and Israel fail eastern Libya–Turkey test
In the days before Libya’s eastern parliament approved a contentious maritime agreement with Turkey, Greece was trying to assemble its allies - Egypt, Israel and the UAE - to prevent the deal, multiple officials in the region told Middle East Eye.
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2026-10-21 20:45
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.
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2026-10-21 18:11
By Xavier Villar
A new security doctrine for Israel
MADRID - Israel has a new security doctrine. It has never been published, never presented to the public, and never formally adopted by the military establishment. And yet, since October 7, 2023, it is this unwritten concept, not the doctrine forged over decades, that has shaped Israeli decision-making and now dictates the country’s entire approach to security.