By Wesam Bahrani

IOF manpower crisis: A battle over identity, not tanks

TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime's military is facing a severe manpower crisis that threatens its very collapse, amid a deep struggle over its identity and future.

By Garsha Vazirian

London Bridge is finally falling down. No fresh sacrifices can save Britain.

TEHRAN — The children’s nursery rhyme has been sung for centuries, its jaunty rhythm masking a foundational horror. “London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down...” What the melody glosses over is the grim medieval folklore of immurement, the belief that a grand structure could only be preserved from collapse if a living soul, often a child, was entombed alive within its masonry.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israeli casualties mount in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN – The Israeli military announces two more soldiers were killed and dozens were injured amid clashes and ambushes by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

‘Greater Israel doctrine has been the cause of wars in Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran’

TEHRAN – Two senior scholars believe that the absurd and dangerous doctrine of “Greater Israel” has been the cause of wars in Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Jeffrey Sachs, a globally famous Columbia University professor, and Sybil Fares, a senior advisor on government affairs, say this doctrine is backed by secular hardliners like Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jewish supremacist creed of Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir that “God gave the land (Palestine and neighboring Arab lands) to the Jews alone.” 

By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi

The price of choosing war over diplomacy

HAFIZABAD, Pakistan – For decades, American presidents, despite their differences, avoided a direct war with Iran. They understood that another conflict in the Middle East could drain resources, deepen instability, and pull the United States into a crisis with no clear end. They said no. But Donald Trump said yes.

By Garsha Vazirian

The little girl from Gaza who became a global reckoning

Hind Rajab’s voice now echoes through every airport lounge and courtroom where Israeli war criminals once felt safe

TEHRAN — For three agonizing hours on January 29, 2024, a five-year-old girl named Hind Rajab was the only living soul in a car filled with the bodies of her family. Israeli tank fire had devastated their vehicle in Gaza City. Wounded and terrified, she stayed on the phone with emergency dispatchers and begged for rescue.

By Garsha Vazirian

10 sobering lessons the war on Iran forced into the open

TEHRAN — Just four months ago, American and Israeli officials and pundits spoke about Iran as if it were a brittle structure waiting to collapse under enough force. They imagined that strikes, assassinations, sanctions, blockades and psychological pressure would force Tehran into surrender. Instead, the war produced the opposite result.

By Wesam Bahrani

‘Israel targets civilians, as usual, to cover up military failures’

TEHRAN – Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched more deadly attacks in southern Lebanon in a sharp escalation that has killed more civilians, including a family of four.

By staff writer

In a city of rubble and martyrs’ posters, Ashura becomes the war’s requiem

TEHRAN — The procession moved with solemn purpose through streets that barely resembled a city. Flanked by mounds of pulverized concrete and snarled metal, the crowd chanted and beat their chests.

By Wesam Bahrani

Civilian deaths mount in southern Lebanon as Israeli aggression escalates despite ceasefire

TEHRAN – Despite the so-called ceasefire agreement, the Israeli regime has intensified its attacks on southern Lebanon, killing at least 30 people, including women and children.

By Garsha Vazirian

The war on Muharram epitomizes the Bahraini monarchy’s terminal terror

TEHRAN — The sulfurous sting of tear gas has become the Al Khalifa regime’s preferred incense for the month of Muharram. In the early hours of June 17, the village of Abu Saiba, a quiet Shia enclave on the outskirts of Manama, was turned into a battlefield.

By Wesam Bahrani

Why does Netanyahu fear a US-Iran agreement?

TEHRAN – In response to developments in U.S.-Iran negotiations, Netanyahu’s remarks express understanding of American interests in reaching an agreement, while still playing the victim card.

By Garsha Vazirian

Creeping annexation is devouring Gaza. Washington is pouring the concrete.

Israel’s land grabs and a new American military base are cementing Trump’s colonial framework in real time

TEHRAN — Peace plans rarely arrive with an olive branch; these days in Gaza, they have arrived with concrete mixers.

By Garsha Vazirian

Inside Washington’s meltdown over Iran and the rising chorus of imperial defeat

TEHRAN – When a sparse memorandum of understanding (MOU) is all that remains for Washington after months of imperial aggression, the political theater in the home capital becomes far more instructive than the ink on the paper.

By Wesam Bahrani

Families returning to southern Lebanon witness widespread destruction

TEHRAN – Some residents of southern Lebanon have begun returning to their homes following the announcement of an MOU between the U.S. and Iran, which includes ending the Zionist regime’s aggression in Lebanon.

By Wesam Bahrani

Has the Gaza resistance agreed to hand over its weapons?

TEHRAN – Over the past few days in late spring, reports have circulated about what took place in Cairo on disarming the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, a demand made by the occupying regime and included in parts of President Trump’s so-called “peace plan”.

By Garsha Vazirian

Iran, Hezbollah dictate a new reality as southern Lebanese begin returning home

The new equation proves that the resistance cannot be broken by mass destruction

TEHRAN — The stunning performance of Iran and its allies and marathon diplomatic sessions that produced the Iran-U.S. memorandum of understanding have forced a realignment of the Middle Eastern security architecture. For months, Washington and Tel Aviv operated under the delusion that Lebanon could be carved out and battered into submission without triggering a broader systemic collapse.

By Garsha Vazirian

The ‘roaring lion’ proved to be a whimpering mouse

A deep dive into the admissions of failure echoing across Israeli media and political echelons

TEHRAN — The dust has partly settled on the highly touted campaign of aggression against Iran, leaving the Israeli establishment to grapple with an undeniable reality. Across political divides and media outlets, a profound consensus has emerged within Israel. The multi-front war designed to dismantle Iranian regional integration has failed.

By Bobby Ciputra

Poland's rise to become the new power of Europe

Is the center of European power shifting from Germany to Poland?

JAKARTA - After the collapse of Germany's economic pillars, the way was now open for a "new Sparta" on the Eastern European plain.

Hezbollah lures and ambushes Israeli forces

TEHRAN – Hezbollah cntinues to wage heroic urban resistance against the Israeli occupation regime’s forces in southern Lebanon, as the regime resorts to desperate acts of aggression in Beirut. 

Kallas’ apartheid characterization of Israel is overdue but welcomed 

TEHRAN - Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, has come under attack by Euractive for comparing Israel to South Africa’s racist apartheid era during high-level talks in Mexico. It argued that she has broken ranks with the EU's official foreign policy and deepened the controversy surrounding her leadership.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israeli soldiers suffer heavy casualties in Lebanon

TEHRAN – The Israeli regime’s health ministry released updated casualty figures on Saturday, confirming 10 new injuries among soldiers since the previous update issued on Friday.

By Garsha Vazirian

Washington’s monetary terrorism and the gangster diktat imposed on Iraq

TEHRAN — Of all the political fictions staged by Washington over the past two decades, few match the cynicism currently playing out in Baghdad. The United States is orchestrating a fraudulent narrative for a nation whose oil revenues sit in a Manhattan vault, whose airspace has been routinely violated by American and Israeli warplanes, and whose cabinet is subjected to blatant foreign vetoes.

By Garsha Vazirian

Flamingo Revolution, Israeli footprint, and Albanian PM’s Iranophobic ravings

Jared Kushner’s Sazan Island luxury project strips Albania of its sovereignty, sparking an unprecedented uprising against foreign domination

TEHRAN — The pink flamingo has evolved from a delicate wetland bird into the fierce emblem of a nation refusing to be erased. In the streets of Tirana, tens of thousands of angry Albanians have been marching with inflatable flamingos held high, their powerful chants echoing off government buildings.