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  • Atoms for Peace Today 18:38

    By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi

    Is the old WMD playbook returning?

    TEHRAN — Washington has a familiar habit: when diplomacy becomes inconvenient, it begins speaking the language of threat. Repeated often enough, that language can transform a political dispute into an emergency that supposedly demands military action.

  • A man watches Israeli forces demolish a Palestinian-owned residential building in occupied al-Quds on 6 October 2026 (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP) Today 18:20

    By staff writer

    Israel rushing to make its West Bank land grab permanent

    'They want the land without its people'

    TEHRAN — Itamar Ben-Gvir climbed onto a bulldozer in occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Tuesday. Beneath him lay the ruins of a five-story apartment building. Ten apartments, home to roughly 70 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were reduced to rubble in the al-Tur neighborhood.

  • A screen grab taken from video released by the pro-Yemeni government Southern Giants Brigades on 6 October 2026 shows fighting with Ansarallah  near the Bab al-Mandab Strait (AFP) Today 18:11

    Yemen’s Ansarallah strikes Aden airport and Saudi targets

    Yemen's Ansarallah have hit a range of targets in Saudi Arabia and in the Saudi-backed areas including Aden, Middle East Eye reported.

  • Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah who was martyred in Israeli airstrikes in late Sept. 2024 Today 18:04

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Sayyed Nasrallah’s flame remains alive

    BEIRUT — Two years have passed since the knight that for decades confronted occupation, hegemony and political intimidation returned to his original realm. Two years since a man who had become, for his followers, a political leader, a religious reference and a symbol of defiance was taken from the visible world.

  • Trump speech in Neb. Yesterday 20:33

    Trump can’t stop demonizing Iran

    TEHRAN – Speaking at a campaign rally on Monday in Grand Island, Nebraska, President Donald Trump suggested that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego.

  • Unrest in Israel in 2023 Yesterday 20:09

    By staff writer

    CIA’s Red Cell warns Israel sits one spark away from collapse

    TEHRAN — A classified CIA assessment reportedly warns that Israel is heading toward potential civil war and collapse as years of genocide in Gaza and military aggression across Lebanon and Iran fracture the regime from within.

  • Resistance flags in Tehran Yesterday 18:13

    By Batool Subeiti 

    Three years on: Resistance emerges as a global power

    LONDON - This year represented a turning point for the Axis of Resistance as a whole and brought the Strait of Hormuz into the equation of the confrontation, with all that this entails for global energy supplies. 

  • A scene of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on Oct. 7, 2023, in which resistance forces, including Hamas, made an attack on southern Israel in response to endless cruelty against Palestinians Yesterday 16:33

    By Ali Minabi 

    October 7, genocide and Yemen

    TEHRAN – Since the Second World War, West Asia has emerged as a region in which the fate of the world is increasingly determined. 

  • US bomber in RAF Fairford 2026-10-05 21:29

    By staff writer

    US scrambles all 12 B-1 bombers out of Britain over unexplained threats

    TEHRAN — Twelve American B-1 strategic bombers left RAF Fairford over the weekend in a hasty pullout that exposes the growing vulnerability of Western bases supporting Washington’s aggressive military operations against Iran.

  • Ansarullah has asked Hamas to mediate between Yemen and Saudi Arabia 2026-10-05 19:28

    By Ali Minabi

    Behind Hamas’s offer to mediate between Yemen and Saudi Arabia

    TEHRAN – Many assumed that Hamas’s offer to mediate between Yemen and Saudi Arabia was primarily an attempt to avoid choosing sides.

  • Trump even threatens allies with military force 2026-10-05 19:17

    Experts say Carney’s concern about Trump’s possible invasion of Canada is valid

    Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney touched on a wide range of topics during an hour-long interview with the New York Times last month — F-35 jets, Starlink satellites, trade in potash and automobiles and more — but the biggest takeaway was that he had prepared over the past year for the “extreme tail risk” that U.S. President Donald Trump might order military action against Canada.

  • A view of the city of Taiz 2026-10-04 20:35

    Ansarallah extends gains in Yemen's Taiz

    Yemen's Ansarallah made fresh territorial gains in the southwestern province of Taiz on Sunday, pressing its advance as the Saudi-backed government in Yemen announced the start of a large-scale military campaign to retake what it called the remaining Ansarallah-held areas.

  • US Marines in Japan 2026-10-04 19:52

    By staff writer

    American Marine arrested over brutal murder of Japanese woman in Okinawa

    TEHRAN — Japanese authorities lodged a formal protest with Washington on Sunday after Okinawa police arrested a 20-year-old U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbing and murdering a local woman in Naha, reigniting fury over the massive American military footprint in Japan.

  • Iraqis believe national sovereignty should be real and not symbolic 2026-10-04 17:38

    By Ali Minabi 

    What next after Iraq’s sovereignty day? 

    TEHRAN – Will Baghdad truly be able to make its own decisions? This is the question many Iraqis are asking following the September 30 celebration of what is known as “sovereignty day.”

  • The development of fiber-optic drones by Hezbollah has rattled Israel 2026-10-04 17:27

    By Batool Subeiti 

    Evolution of the Resistance: three phases since Oct. 7

    LONDON - Phase one of the resistance is divided into two parts, the first is the war of supporting Gaza until the many resistance leaders were eliminated. It was then followed by the “battle of determination” where the comprehensive confrontation took place, which was the attempt to completely eliminate the resistance. 

  • Riyadh Aramco attack 2026-10-03 20:17

    Aramco facility in Riyadh comes under attack

    TEHRAN – A large plume of smoke and fire was seen rising in the vicinity of an Aramco facility in Riyadh on Saturday, a witness told Reuters.

  • Netanyahu and MBZ 2026-10-03 20:16

    By Ali Minabi

    Is the UAE trying to save Netanyahu?

    TEHRAN – Israeli media sought to explain Netanyahu’s surprise visit to Abu Dhabi as an effort to ease the tension between him and Mohammed bin Zayed.

  • Middle East map 2026-10-02 21:06

    By Matin Jamshidi

    Trump talking his own imagination about Iran 

    TEHRAN – Trump has claimed that Iran would have “wiped” Israel and Saudi Arabia “off the face of the planet” with nuclear bombs if he had not been president.

  • Trump in TIME cover 2026-10-02 21:06

    By staff writer

    Time magazine exposes recklessness at the heart of Trump’s warmongering

    TEHRAN — New details from a Time magazine exposé unmask the chaotic dysfunction currently driving United States imperialism. The report, published in the latest issue of Time, reveals that the White House has outsourced its disastrous military adventurism to a large language model (LLM), exposing a declining American empire dangerously detached from reality.

  • Men standing in south Lebanon 2026-10-02 21:05

    Southern Lebanese: Israel is ‘razing our lives before our eyes'

    Day after day, the Israeli-occupied village of Mansouri, perched on a green hill a few kilometres south of the coastal city of Tyre, is slowly disappearing. Already heavily damaged during the war, it is now quite literally being wiped off the map, in a final twist of cynicism, during the ceasefire.

  • A commercial vessel anchored off Yemen’s coast at the Bab al-Mandeb Strait on September 12, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) 2026-09-30 19:06

    Ansarallah’s gains could reverberate beyond Saudi Arabia

    TEHRAN - In a commentary published on its website, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said that victories by Yemen’s Ansarallah forces against Saudi-backed forces have brought them within 80 miles of Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, which houses the United States’ only permanent and largest military base on the African continent.

  • US forces leave Iraq 2026-09-30 16:47

    Iraqis celebrate the exit of US occupation forces after 23 years

    Iraqis poured into the streets on Wednesday to celebrate the withdrawal of U.S. forces from their country after 23 years of occupation.

  • Some reports said one of the pilots may have attempted to crash the plane 2026-09-30 15:44

    Tel Aviv-bound flight makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after 'pilot clash’

    Some reports say one of the pilots tried to crash the passenger plane

    An Israel-bound flight made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after sending a hijacking alert, reportedly plummeting 17,000 feet in two minutes.

  • A scene of vandalism in the West Bank by Israeli settlers 2026-09-30 15:13

    By staff writer

    Israel systematically burns Palestinian homes in West Bank, assaults holy sites

    Settler attacks have reached the highest rate in more than two decades

    TEHRAN — The return of the Tubasi family to their home in Jalud lasted less than a single day. Forced from their village south of Nablus two months ago by armed Israeli settlers, the family obtained a court order guaranteeing their safe return under military protection.

  • US flag in Iraq 2026-09-29 22:31

    By Ali Minabi

    Iraq’s sovereignty should not be defined by a single day

    TEHRAN – Freedom without the means to defend it is only a promise and sovereignty without the power to protect it is only a symbol.

  • Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah 2026-09-29 22:31

    Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah threatens airspace closure over ban on Iran flights

    TEHRAN – The security chief of Kata’ib Hezbollah on Monday warned the Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi that if Iraq continues the air blockade against Iran after Oct. 1, people may close the entry points to Iraq’s airspace for other countries that join the air ban.

  • MBZ and Netanyahu 2026-09-29 22:28

    By staff writer

    Netanyahu flew over Jordan and Saudi Arabia for clandestine talks in Abu Dhabi

    TEHRAN — On Sunday, a private jet carrying Benjamin Netanyahu took off from Israel, entered Jordanian airspace, crossed into Saudi Arabia, and touched down in Abu Dhabi. Gaza lies in ruins under years of relentless bombardment. The International Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister. Yet two Arab states provided clear skies, and a third opened its airport tarmac and hosted Netanyahu for ominous talks with other regional actors.

  • Najaf protesters 2026-09-28 21:02

    Iraqis hold rallies protesting suspension of flights with Iran

    TEHRAN – Large numbers of people held protests in the shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala to express their strong opposition to the Iraqi government’s decision to suspend direct flights between Iran and Iraq at the Trump administration’s order.

  • South Lebanon explosion 2026-09-28 21:01

    By staff writer

    South Lebanon faces aggressive Israeli offensive as US ‘diplomacy’ provides cover

    TEHRAN — A massive explosion orchestrated by Israeli forces tore through the coastal town of al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon on Monday, sending violent tremors across the Tyre district.

  • Gaza contamination 2026-09-28 21:00

    By Ali Minabi

    Toxic warfare threatens Gaza’s survival

    TEHRAN – As though the Israeli regime had not already taken enough Palestinian lives, it now appears to be employing new methods to harm and kill them.