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Yesterday 20:56
By Batool Subeiti
What is behind Saudi request for Egyptian troops?
LONDON – On October 26th Saudi Arabia requested for Egypt to send troops to Saudi Arabia, and the Egyptian House of Representatives voted by a two-thirds majority to authorize this. The consideration of steps towards establishing an Egyptian military presence on Saudi territory, reflects broader concerns that go beyond the immediate need to strengthen conventional defense.
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Yesterday 20:55
By Ali Minabi
Floods have added insult to injury for Gazans
TEHRAN – Four Palestinians have been killed in Gaza after a sand embankment collapsed onto tents sheltering displaced families.
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Yesterday 20:54
By Hassan Garousi
Journalists are silent victims of war
US and Israel are not held accountable based on international law for killing journalists
The killing of journalists in wars has, regrettably, become part and parcel of the grim reality of contemporary armed conflicts. What makes the situation today even more alarming, however, is not simply the growing number of journalists killed, but the fact that, in many cases, those responsible for these killings will never be held accountable.
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2026-11-08 21:01
By Ali Minabi
The war Americans never wanted
TEHRAN – There is no poll that shows a majority of Americans supporting the illegal U.S. war on Iran. There never was one.
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2026-11-08 21:01
Yemen hits Aramco tower in Riyadh in response to Saudi attacks on civilians
TEHRAN – An attack on Sunday in the capital of Saudi Arabia damaged an office tower belonging to the state oil company, Saudi Aramco, amid an escalating war between the kingdom and the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF).
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2026-11-08 21:00
By staff writer
Massie’s ‘kissed The Wall’ jab lands hard after GOP’s historic defeat over Israel
TEHRAN — Thomas Massie needed nine words. “Republicans hit a wall because they kissed The Wall,” the Kentucky Republican wrote on X on November 7, just days after his party lost Congress. The post quietly racked up over 6 million views not long after, the sort of number that makes you raise an eyebrow.
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2026-11-07 21:25
By Ali Minabi
US-Israel military aid: End of dependence, or a new chapter?
TEHRAN – On November 3, President Trump said the U.S. would end what he described as approximately $4 billion in annual aid to Israel by the end of the year.
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2026-11-07 21:25
Bahrain’s Shia leader urges peaceful defense of tortured defendants facing mass trial
TEHRAN — Sheikh Isa Qassim, the senior Shia cleric whom Bahrain’s rulers stripped of his citizenship in 2016, urged the public on Friday to stand peacefully behind 60 clerics awaiting a court verdict on November 8, and warned the monarchy that a case built on “fabricated and defamatory accusations” could carry grave consequences.
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2026-11-07 21:24
By staff writer
Trump answers midterm defeat by elevating the ‘extremist’ architect of his rejected agenda
TEHRAN — Just days after Republicans lost control of Congress in Tuesday’s elections, President Donald Trump appointed Stephen Miller as White House Chief of Staff on Friday. Miller, key architect of the administration’s immigration and deportation strategy, replaces Susie Wiles and officially begins his duties on Monday.
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2026-11-06 20:35
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Iran brings Washington to its knees
TEHRAN – “We will bring the enemy to its knees,” martyr Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on the cold night of January 3, 2026.
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2026-11-06 20:26
By Batool Subeiti
Outcome of three years of regional confrontation: The emergence of new alliances
LONDON -- The outcome of the confrontations that have taken place across the West Asia region since October 7 must be understood in the context of all the interconnected fronts, including Gaza, Lebanon, and, most recently, Iran. The U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran will ultimately determine the overall outcome of the conflicts across all these fronts and the changes that have taken place.
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2026-11-06 20:21
France sees biggest day of protests in years
About 575,000 protesters participated in demonstrations across France on Thursday, according to government estimates, marking the biggest single day of protests since a wave of unrest began in September to coincide with a nationwide strike.
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2026-11-04 21:21
Americans punish Trump over the war on Iran
TEHRAN - U.S. voters on Tuesday handed the Democratic Party control over Congress in a biting rebuke to President Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
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2026-11-04 21:19
Vance says war on Iran is ‘real reason’ Republicans lost midterm elections
JD Vance said that the war against Iran doomed the Republican party in the US midterm elections, which are widely seen as a sweeping rebuke of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Guardian reported.
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2026-11-04 21:16
Senator-elect El-Sayed says US tax dollars should not fund Israel’s ‘genocidal war’
Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won a highly coveted Michigan Senate seat on Wednesday, and will become the first Muslim to serve in the upper chamber of Congress in January.
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2026-11-04 21:12
Saudi Arabia in Ansarallah’s sights as Trump sees air campaign futility
TEHRAN - Yemen’s Ansarallah forces are on the march, and America’s ally Saudi Arabia is in their crosshairs.
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2026-11-03 20:16
Living costs, housing, and employment uncertainty have united protesters across Europe
Countries across Europe have been swept by a wave of protests by young people angry at the spiraling cost of living who have little trust in traditional institutions, France 24 reported.
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2026-11-03 20:10
By Ali Minabi
Destroying south Lebanon with impunity
TEHRAN – There was never any ceasefire in Lebanon, only a Lebanese government that signed one and an occupying army that never stopped bombing.
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2026-11-03 19:52
By Batool Subeiti
The legacy of strategic patience
LONDON -- Strategic institution building characterized Iran’s strategic patience phase, whereas now is the moment of testing. The current transformations cannot be separated from the prolonged period that Iran experienced under the leadership of Sayyed Ali Khamenei. It was characterized by a policy of strategic patience and an avoidance of escalation into an all-out confrontation.
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2026-11-02 21:05
397 attacks on West Bankers in Oct, highest monthly total in 20 years: UN
Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank reached an unprecedented level in October, with the number of incidents causing injuries or property damage exceeding all monthly totals recorded since the United Nations began monitoring them in 2006.
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2026-11-02 21:01
By staff writer
Canada, a Washington ally, is proving that US is not the center of the world
TEHRAN – Canada is taking concrete steps to diversify its international relations as Canadian officials, particularly Prime Minister Mark Carney, have come to realize that the United States, especially under Donald Trump, is no longer a predictable or reliable partner.
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2026-11-02 20:53
By Ali Minabi
The Gaza ceasefire that keeps killing
TEHRAN – A year after a ceasefire promised to end the genocidal war, Gaza is enduring a peace that exists in name only.
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2026-11-01 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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2026-11-01 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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2026-11-01 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.