By Garsha Vazirian

The death of Washington’s Dimona omertà and the return of JFK’s ghost

TEHRAN — For more than half a century, Washington played its part in a carefully staged omission: Israel's nuclear weapons were never to be officially named. On May 4, it became obvious that the script has been torn up.

American military hegemony begins to look increasingly hollow: analysis

TEHRAN – In a commentary published on May 3, Statecraft analyzed how Donald Trump’s war on Iran is exposing limits to American power.

By Wesam Bahrani

Why should Lebanon’s president avoid meeting Netanyahu?

TEHRAN – Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has said it is “not appropriate” to meet Israeli regime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at this time, amid mounting pressure from Washington to hold direct talks.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah ambushes more Israeli infantry

TEHRAN – Hezbollah is putting more emphasis on surveillance before taking direct military action against Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).

UAE policies are premised on realpolitik at the cost of morality

TEHRAN — It was a source of pride that the United Arab Emirates succeeded in becoming a highly wealthy state in just a few decades.

By Garsha Vazirian

A federation of frayed shards insists on becoming the ‘United Hebrew Emirates’

The Israeli albatross clamped tight around Abu Dhabi’s glass neck equals strategic suicide

TEHRAN — There’s a special breed of fool who picks fights with giants while sheltered in a glass palace. Abu Dhabi’s adventurers, Mohammed and Tahnoon bin Zayed, along with their clique, embody that folly.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israel lacks troops and ammo for a prolonged war

TEHRAN – The Israeli military is depleted and overstretched, unable to sustain multi-front warfare without American support.

By Garsha Vazirian

Iran’s geography strikes back in the corridor war

The strategic collapse of Washington’s attempt to bypass the heart of Eurasia

TEHRAN – The global maritime order fractured in early 2026, not through a single explosion, but through a methodical reassertion of geological reality. When the U.S.-Israeli axis launched its kinetic campaign of aggression against Iran on February 28, the strategic assumption in Washington was that the world’s most critical energy artery would remain a mostly passive, obedient channel for Western commerce.

Has Merz faced reality after mindless remarks against Iran?

TEHRAN – After one year in office, it seems that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is gradually coming to his senses or facing the realities on the ground by seeking to correct himself regarding his surprisingly repetitive and reckless remarks about Iran.

By Garsha Vazirian

A silhouette of conscience over the American capital

A man’s bridge vigil forced D.C. to look up and turned a landmark into a moral argument against the war on Iran

TEHRAN — High above the Anacostia River, where the wind never seems to settle and the noise of the American capital turns faint and metallic, a lone figure sat in the white arc of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge like a living question the conscience could not ignore.

By Garsha Vazirian

The war on Iran broke the NATO protection racket

The war exposed a legacy of American control that stretches back to the shadows of Operation Gladio

TEHRAN — The 2026 U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has incinerated the 70-old myth of Atlantic solidarity. What was sold to the world for decades as an ironclad shield has been exposed as a hollow ritual, sustained by habit and propaganda but incapable of surviving a genuine collision with reality.

By Wesam Bahrani

Why does Hezbollah insist on resisting Israel in Lebanon?

TEHRAN – Hezbollah follows a strategy of tactical response with a strategic objective, aimed at reshaping the rules of engagement.

By staff writer

The Eiffel Tower could not outshine the tears for Minab’s children

TEHRAN — The rain had softened the stones of Place du Trocadéro, but it did not dim the candles. Beneath the Eiffel Tower, hundreds gathered in Paris on April 25 for a vigil that was part mourning, part protest, and part accusation.

By Garsha Vazirian

State visit of staged amnesia for two untouchable Epstein-era dynasts

TEHRAN — The 2026 state visit of Charles III to Washington was supposed to be a victory lap for the Western world. In reality, it felt more like a high-stakes funeral for accountability.

By Wesam Bahrani

The new Hezbollah drone threat is unsettling Israel

TEHRAN – Hezbollah’s loitering attack drones are now treated in the Israeli media discourse as a central and prominent challenge to the regime’s military.

By Garsha Vazirian

The South Lebanon death marsh, where Israeli ambitions wither

Strike-back doctrine and asymmetric warfare turn Israeli occupation into a losing gamble

TEHRAN — The landscape of the confrontation between Hezbollah and Israel has undergone a seismic shift, marking the definitive end of an era. While the fragile ceasefire was initially framed as de-escalation, the reality on the ground has revealed a systematic campaign of Israeli violations that has forced the Resistance’s transition into a new, more lethal doctrine.

By Wesam Bahrani

PMF helps break the Iraqi PM impasse

TEHRAN – Iraq’s largest parliamentary bloc has officially nominated its candidate for the country’s powerful post of Prime Minister. 

Quad erosion shows US no longer a reliable strategic partner: analysis 

TEHRAN – The Quad, known as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is on the verge of collapse as Donald Trump’s return to power has degraded its “geostrategic” significance, says a professor of political science and international relations at the University of Southern California.

By Garsha Vazirian

Israel’s multi-front collapse exposes a regime weaker and more desperate than ever before

Multi-front exhaustion and failed objectives mark a clear strategic reversal for the entity compared to its pre-war position

TEHRAN — As we hit the two-month milestone of the unprovoked campaign of aggression launched on February 28, the bravado surrounding the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has evaporated. What remains on Israel’s side is the sight of a militarily exhausted and overstretched aggressor that has taken a beating on every front.

Rising support for Trump's impeachment

TEHRAN- A growing wave of domestic dissatisfaction and mounting expert concerns over leadership decision-making are casting a shadow over the political future of U.S. President Donald Trump, as new polling data and analytical assessments point to increasing instability within the American political system.

By Garsha Vazirian

Political violence claims spotlight at White House Correspondents’ dinner

Familiar venue of past U.S. presidential shootings becomes a scene of fresh chaos and public disillusionment

TEHRAN — The annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, marketed as a carefully stage-managed tribute to the bond between power and the press, collapsed into raw panic on the night of April 25 at the Washington Hilton’s cavernous International Ballroom.

By Garsha Vazirian

The catfights Trump can’t hide

While lecturing Tehran’s imaginary “new regime”, Washington’s purges and military misadventures reveal the true source of disorder

TEHRAN — When President Trump sneered that Iran’s leaders “are fighting like cats and dogs” because the U.S. has “created a real mess for them,” it was meant as a gotcha line, proof of American triumph. Instead, it hangs in the air like an unwitting self-portrait.

Iran is following Ho Chi Minh’s playbook in Vietnam: FP 

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is proving to be a “cartoonish version” of Robert S. McNamara  

TEHRAN - Michael Hirsh, a columnist for Foreign Policy, says Iran “is following Ho Chi Minh’s playbook in Vietnam” in the face of the U.S.-Israeli war against the country.

By Garsha Vazirian

The hollowed arsenal of a fading empire

The campaign of aggression against Iran has left the American military-industrial complex in a state of kinetic bankruptcy

TEHRAN — The leak is worse than the official denial because it reveals something the White House cannot spin away: the United States has been fighting Iran with a magazine that is visibly thinning. After weeks of air and missile combat, the Trump administration is now confronting the oldest rule of warfare it spent years pretending technology had abolished: if you shoot faster than you can build, you eventually run dry.

By Wesam Bahrani

Dozens of IOF casualties as Lebanon ceasefire extended

TEHRAN – The Zionist regime admits major casualties in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah launches more retaliatory attacks over the regime’s ceasefire violations.

By Batool Subeiti

Why has Israel entered direct talks with Lebanon?

LONDON - The Islamic resistance of Lebanon emerged to fill a vacuum during a time of absolute Israeli dominance of the country following the 1982 invasion. Its resistance finally led to the liberation of Lebanon.