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Today 19:52
By staff writer
Israel’s climate crimes
TEHRAN - Israel’s environmental damage in Palestine has accompanied the destruction of Palestinian lives, homes and livelihoods. Farmlands and olive groves have been burned or destroyed, while homes, vehicles, cities and refugee camps have been repeatedly bombarded.
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Today 18:58
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
The empty chairs of Minab
MASHHAD — The courtyard was full before the first bell rang. Thousands of children in freshly pressed uniforms stood under a sky that felt too ordinary for the day. They hadn't gathered to start a new school year.
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Today 18:49
ICC refuses to withdraw arrest warrant against Netanyahu
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken no steps to withdraw arrest warrants or related applications concerning Israeli officials, despite mounting pressure and sanctions from the United States, Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan has said.
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Today 14:19
By staff writer
The reality behind Trump’s misleading UN address
TEHRAN — Donald Trump’s address to the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly was a cascade of verifiable falsehoods, internal logical collapses, and explicit threats of destruction.
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Yesterday 21:12
By staff writer
ICC blacklist plan prompts US senator’s calls to sanction Trump and Rubio
TEHRAN — U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen on Monday called on European governments and signatories to the Rome Statute to impose sanctions on President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Yesterday 21:11
By Ali Minabi
Shifting regional dynamics deepen pressure on Israel
TEHRAN – Developments in Yemen reveal the Axis of Resistance’s new strategy to reshape the strategic landscape from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and East Africa.
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Yesterday 21:11
Washington and Tel Aviv face global revolt at 81st UN General Assembly
TEHRAN — The 81st United Nations General Assembly opened Tuesday under a cloud of unprecedented hostility toward the United States and Israel.
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2026-09-21 21:14
By staff writer
Impulsive German leader left in a quandary
TEHRAN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is being squeezed badly by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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2026-09-21 21:14
By staff writer
Ansarallah consolidates Red Sea control as Trump rejects MBS’ desperate appeals
TEHRAN — The Saudi campaign of aggression in Yemen is unraveling on the western coast. In a lightning offensive that swept through the coastal plain, Yemeni forces under Ansarallah command have captured the port city of Mokha, Mayyun Island, and strategic highlands in Lahij province.
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2026-09-21 21:12
By Ali Minabi
The security and economic gamble facing Iraq
TEHRAN – This withdrawal of U.S. forces is not like its predecessor in 2011, and comparisons drawn from earlier stages of the American-Iraqi relationship are of no use here.
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2026-09-20 20:33
Riyadh's vulnerability exposed: report
Saudi Arabia and the United States do not have a clear plan to fight back against the Yemeni Armed Force (YAF) who took control of a strategically important island on the Red Sea.
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2026-09-20 20:32
Ed Sheeran faces protests, desolate stage after opening acts walk out over Gaza genocide
TEHRAN — Dozens of demonstrators waving Palestinian flags converged outside Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday to confront a music industry built on complicity. Their signs carried blunt demands, telling Ed Sheeran and his promoters that concert revenue must no longer underwrite Israeli crimes.
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2026-09-20 20:32
Iran thwarted US, Israel change attempts: Hezbollah chief
Sheikh Qassem declares armed resistance the sole method to liberate occupied Palestinian
TEHRAN — Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem declared Saturday that the Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully defeated the core political objectives of the American-Israeli aggression launched against it earlier this year, proving that steadfastness can thwart imperialist war plans.
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2026-09-19 21:13
By staff writer
Israeli kills three Palestinians in Gaza including health official’s son
TEHRAN — Israel continues its systematic obliteration of Gaza. On Saturday, military forces killed three more Palestinians, blatantly violating the October 2025 “ceasefire agreement.” The death toll since the genocide began in 2023 now nears 74,000.
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2026-09-19 21:13
By M.A. Saki
Denmark makes strategic blunder by giving in to Trump’s annexation threats over Greenland
Greenland may prove to be another Palestine
TEHRAN – After threatening for much of his second term to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland by force, if necessary, Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States had reached an Arctic security pact with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland.
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2026-09-19 21:10
By Ali Minabi
How has Yemen’s role reshaped the regional conflict?
TEHRAN – Yemen, which was long viewed as the weakest link in the Arab world, is now influencing shipping and energy and holds one of the most sensitive cards in West Asia.
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2026-09-18 21:20
By staff writer
Denying Palestinians visa for UN summit contravenes peace and statehood
TEHRAN – Just like last year, the U.S. State Department has barred the Palestinian Authority delegation, including President Mahmoud Abbas, to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week.
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2026-09-18 16:28
By Ali Minabi
Yemen denounces Saudi allegations of targeting Mecca
TEHRAN – Ansarallah leader Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has strongly rejected accusations by Saudi Arabia that Yemeni Armed Forces targeted the holy city of Mecca.
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2026-09-18 16:10
Iran ends the American Middle East: analysis
‘Trump’s debacle in Iran has shattered the illusion of American military omnipotence’
TEHRAN - Marc Lynch, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, says the failed U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has put an end to “the American Middle East.”
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2026-09-16 20:23
By staff writer
Syrians take to the streets as empty Western pledges leave them starving
TEHRAN — Streets across Syria erupted this week in the largest wave of civil unrest since the fall of the central government in Damascus in December 2024.
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2026-09-16 20:16
By Ali Minabi
Palestinian position on developments in Yemen
TEHRAN – Palestinian resistance forces, along with the overwhelming majority of the Palestinian people, make no secret of their deep appreciation for Ansarallah.
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2026-09-16 20:07
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Two nations, two gates, one golden key
TEHRAN — For six months, Washington’s story stayed the same: Iran and its allies are isolated, the resistance is finished, and the oil routes are safe under American control. Trump and his officials claimed all this happened in days, not years.
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2026-09-16 19:57
By M.A. Saki
Trump’s rejection of AI regulation is similar to his mindless climate change remarks
TEHRAN – In the same way that Donald Trump had dismissed global warming as a “hoax” invented by the Chinese, he has said fears about the safety of artificial intelligence (AI) are a "hoax". He also has criticized calls to have more guardrails in place for the fast-moving technology.
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2026-09-15 21:01
By staff writer
‘NAZA’ documentary confirms AI mass murder in Gaza, triggers ‘treason’ charges
TEHRAN — An 80-minute Israeli documentary exposing the systematic, algorithmic murder of Palestinian civilians in Gaza has triggered a severe political breakdown inside the regime.
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2026-09-15 19:54
By Ali Minabi
Bal al-Mandab battle: Trump watches on
TEHRAN – Why has the United States not intervened militarily to try to stop the advance of the Yemeni Armed Forces and prevent them from establishing full control over the Bab al-Mandab Strait?
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2026-09-15 19:40
By Martin Love
War on Iran the greatest error in U.S. history
NORTH CAROLINA - Probably half of U.S. citizens have been plunged into misery by the fact of the U.S.-Zionist war on Iran and support for Israel…even among those blindly ignorant of history and foreign countries and most everything else and whose weak primary complaint is the cost of gasoline.
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2026-09-15 00:32
By staff writer
9/11 Families United chair calls out Trump over Saudi cover-up, Iran war narrative
TEHRAN — The 25th anniversary of September 11 stripped away any lingering illusion of political unity in Washington. At Ground Zero, families of the victims directly confronted the American political establishment over its quarter-century shielding of Saudi Arabia.
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2026-09-15 00:28
By staff writer
Nine years after Saudi Ritz-Carlton purge, Rami Naimi remains trapped
TEHRAN — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s “modernization agenda” has drawn international attention, but a Financial Times investigation into the 2017 Ritz-Carlton purge raises serious questions about how the kingdom treated some detainees during that period.
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2026-09-15 00:24
By staff writer
How Xi Jinping positioned BRICS against Western sanctions, power politics
TEHRAN — Speaking at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered an unyielding critique of Western hegemony, positioning the expanded alliance as a primary shield for the Global South.
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2026-09-13 20:55
By staff writer
Israel expands southern Syria footprint; tank columns and artillery push past Golan
TEHRAN — Israeli armor and heavy artillery have locked the approach to Damascus into a steady rhythm of bombardment.