By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi 

The Strait of Hormuz: Iran's geographic destiny and strategic red line

HAFIZABAD, Pakistan - For centuries, the narrow blue artery that separates the Arabian Peninsula from the Iranian plateau has been more than a mere shipping lane. The Strait of Hormuz, at its slenderest point a mere 21 nautical miles across, has functioned as the world's petroleum lifeline, the chokepoint through which approximately a fifth of global oil consumption once flowed. But for Iran, this waterway is not simply a commercial corridor to be managed; it is the geographical expression of the nation's strategic depth, a natural extension of its sovereign territory, and, increasingly, the most credible deterrent in its defensive arsenal.  Recent events have thrust the Strait back to the center of global attention, with Tehran's decisive assertion of control exposing the fundamental asymmetry that defines the balance of power in the Persian Gulf.

Israel Katz seeks pardon for soldier who killed Palestinian

Israeli war minister Israel Katz has requested that President Isaac Herzog pardon Elor Azaria, a former Israeli soldier convicted for killing an incapacitated Palestinian in Hebron, Israeli media reported.

By Wesam Bahrani

From Macron to Trump to Israel: What is Syria’s share?

TEHRAN – French President Macron surprised everyone by visiting Syria as the first Western leader to meet self-declared president Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus.

By Garsha Vazirian

Yemen draws a hard line in the skies, imposes a new equation

The bombing of Sana’a airport drags Riyadh into a self-destructive strategic trap

TEHRAN — The desperate Saudi bombardment of Sana’a International Airport on July 13 has backfired, exposing the deep panic of the Riyadh, Washington, and Tel Aviv axis.

By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi

Demon has gone to hell, Netanyahu and Trump are next  

Lindsey Graham spent his entire life selling his soul for dirty money

 HAFIZABAD, Pakistan – Now, Senator Lindsey Graham is in a dark grave. The man who spent decades screaming for the destruction of Iran is silent. And the world is better off without him and other like-minded persons. 

By Wesam Bahrani 

Is Netanyahu headed for war as Israeli elections approach?

TEHRAN – With Israel’s elections approaching, will Netanyahu’s government attempt to escape its strategic predicament by pushing forward and returning to an intense war? Or will it return to politics, seek compromises, and cooperate with more realistic initiatives?

By Garsha Vazirian

Yemen's air siege is bravely broken despite Saudi bombardment

Hostile Saudi warplanes fail to stop a historic civilian lifeline

TEHRAN — The brutal aerial embargo that has suffocated the Yemeni people for over a decade has finally collapsed.

By Garsha Vazirian

A chicken hawk named ‘Lady G’ and the innocent lives spent to feed his imperial sadism

The ledger lines of a closeted warmonger owned by Israel and military contractors

TEHRAN — The announcement blamed sudden cardiac arrest on July 11, 2026, but the heart inside Lindsey Graham had withered into an instrument of imperial sadism decades ago. Returning to his Capitol Hill home from a weapons-peddling trip to Kyiv, the 71-year-old senator from South Carolina collapsed and “died suddenly” in his room.

By Wesam Bahrani

The West Bank: Between neglect and settlement expansion

TEHRAN – As the region is engulfed by wars and fast-moving developments that are difficult for observers to keep up with, attention to what is happening in the West Bank has steadily declined. Public interest has waned.

By staff writer

Netanyahu’s remarks on settler violence ring hollow

TEHRAN - Israeli police admitted that four settlers were arrested after an attack on CNN and other journalists in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.

By Garsha Vazirian

Israel expands its borderless empire of election theft

From NYC and Bogota to Paris and Luanda, Tel Aviv operates a malicious cyber machine designed to dismantle national sovereignty

TEHRAN — While Western capitals obsess over fabricated narratives of foreign interference, the most toxic threat to global democracy operates with absolute structural impunity directly out of Tel Aviv.

By Wesam Bahrani

What has the Gaza genocide revealed about Israeli politics?

TEHRAN – Prolonged wars test the aggressor’s political system to produce effective leadership, while also maintaining social cohesion.

By Garsha Vazirian

‘Revenge’ and resilience dominate coverage of martyred Leader’s rites

Largest funeral in modern history forces Western media to abandon ‘brittle Iran’ narrative

TEHRAN — When the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, was laid to rest at the Imam Reza (AS) shrine in Mashhad on July 9, foreign news organizations had already spent an exhaustive week scrambling to report a staggering reality their corporate editorial lines never anticipated.

By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi 

Millions of Iranians send a message that Trump still refuses to comprehend

HAFIZABAD, Pakistan - They called it a funeral. It was not.

By Wesam Bahrani

Why did millions of Iraqis mourn Iran's martyred leader?

TEHRAN - In a display of grief that surpassed all expectations, Iraqis turned out in numbers far higher than anticipated to pay their final respects to the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

NATO chief Rutte: A naïve sycophant who is detached from reality

TEHRAN - Mark Rutte does not deserve the post of NATO secretary general. It seems NATO has gone bankrupt in selecting figures to run the 32-member military alliance in these turbulent years.

By Garsha Vazirian

The transactional rot of NATO predators in Ankara and 'Euroslopulism'

TEHRAN — Far from a triumphant display of transatlantic resolve, the 36th NATO summit at Ankara's Be?tepe Presidential Compound lays bare an alliance in structural decay.

Brutal and regular torture of Dr. Abu Safiya is horrible

Abu Safiya is violently tortured for treating Palestinians injured in the Gaza war

TEHRAN - Hussam Abu Safiya, who was the director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza until he was detained by Israeli forces, is fearing for his life.

By Garsha Vazirian

The clenched fist and the geometric fusion of Resistance

The martyred Leader's final blueprint lies in his blood

TEHRAN — The bodies lay at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla on July 3; yet another spectacle was the people paying their respects.

By Wesam Bahrani

Sedition in Lebanon, or a calculated agenda of betrayal?

TEHRAN - Throughout history, political turmoil and national betrayal have often been linked, and Lebanon today is no exception. It faces a dangerous moment where its own officials are making deals that serve Israeli interests.

By Garsha Vazirian

The modern golem of Silicon Valley demands a ritual sacrifice of innocence

TEHRAN — The little boys and little girls of the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school had just settled into their morning lessons when the sky split open. It was February 28, the opening day of the American-Israeli campaign against Iran, and three Tomahawk cruise missiles, one by one, tore through the roof, collapsing concrete onto the children's desks.

By Wesam Bahrani

Can the Israel–Lebanon agreement succeed where military victory failed?

TEHRAN – The U.S.-brokered agreement between Lebanon and Israel appears to be far more than a deal governing the occupation regime’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

By Wesam Bahrani

Gaza thwarts seditious plot, renews allegiance to resistance

TEHRAN – The devastated and besieged Gaza Strip, a small, impoverished territory, has endured, for more than two years and eight months, one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history.

By Garsha Vazirian

Behind the new Lebanon framework lies the trap of demographic erasure, endless war

TEHRAN — The document signed in Washington on June 26 under American “mediation” was celebrated in Western capitals as a historic breakthrough, even though it is a crude instrument of asymmetric warfare designed to secure an indefinite Israeli military presence.

By Wesam Bahrani

More Lebanese figures reject the “framework agreement”

TEHRAN – Opposition to the Lebanese government’s “framework agreement” with the Zionist regime continues to grow, as the country’s political parties and public figures condemn it for legitimizing occupation and lacking legal or national legitimacy.