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Yesterday 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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Yesterday 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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Yesterday 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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Yesterday 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.
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2026-10-30 20:45
By staff writer
Trump’s falling popularity hangs over a midterm vote shaped by Iran war, inflation
TEHRAN — Donald Trump is not on the ballot, yet the election is about little else. On November 3, roughly 210 million registered voters will decide all 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 36 governorships.
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2026-10-28 22:53
By Batool Subeiti
Each of the three options facing US in confrontation with Iran carries strategic losses
LONDON - America's available options in the West Asia region are constrained by substantial strategic costs, meaning that none appears to be free of losses. These options can be summarized in three main scenarios: maintaining a state of neither war nor peace, withdrawing without an agreement, or withdrawing under an agreement.
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2026-10-28 22:47
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Lula’s victory once again showed Latin America is not US backyard
TEHRAN — History has a peculiar way of embarrassing those who believe political opponents can simply be imprisoned, exiled or erased. Nelson Mandela walked out of prison after 27 years and became South Africa’s first Black president. Juan Perón returned to Argentina after nearly two decades in exile and reclaimed the presidency.
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2026-10-28 22:35
By staff writer
Knesset stalemate plunges Israel into political paralysis
Netanyahu loses his majority, Eisenkot cannot win one, and the wars go on
TEHRAN — Israel voted in record numbers on October 27 and produced a parliament nobody can run.
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2026-10-27 19:31
By staff writer
Israeli voters chose between ‘rabid yellow dogs and ravenous jackals’
TEHRAN — Israelis queued in numbers not seen in half a century on Tuesday, and Benjamin Netanyahu spent the afternoon begging his own voters to match them.
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2026-10-27 17:59
By Sahar Dadjoo
‘No Kings’ sees public mobilization as essential to defending US democracy, says American activist
Rebecca Winter discusses the role of mass protests, electoral participation and community organizing in challenging authoritarianism
TEHRAN- Rebecca Winter, executive director of Massachusetts 50501, is involved in organizing grassroots efforts to defend democracy and oppose authoritarianism in the United States. The movement, which emerged from a nationwide call for protests in February 2025, seeks to mobilize Americans through demonstrations, boycotts, voter participation and community action.
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2026-10-26 20:17
Who is the Hebrew-speaking ‘fox applying for the henhouse guard job?’
Lana Nusseibeh’s close alignment with Israel shadows her bid to lead the UN
TEHRAN — Having spent years whitewashing Abu Dhabi’s submission to Israeli interests, Lana Nusseibeh is now being promoted by her handlers to run the United Nations.
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2026-10-26 20:15
By staff writer
Lula defeats pro-Israel Bolsonaro, dealing Trump a major Latin American blow
TEHRAN — Brazilians re-elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday, October 25, giving the 80-year-old leftist a fourth term and the Trump administration its most consequential defeat in the Western Hemisphere. Lula took 51.8 percent to Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s 48.2, a lead of more than 4 million votes, three weeks after trailing by 2.2 million. No one had ever won Brazil’s presidency after finishing second in the first round.
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2026-10-25 20:30
Saudi Arabia turns to US AI system as Yemeni pressure mounts
TEHRAN – Failing to protect itself and its proxies in southern Yemen, Saudi Arbia has turned to an American-AI generated system to unsuccessfully counter Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF), also known as Ansarallah.
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2026-10-25 20:29
By staff writer
Israel seizes civilian houses in al-Khalil, establishes frontline military posts
TEHRAN — Israeli forces have sealed every major entry point into al-Khalil (Hebron), driving more than 2,200 Palestinians out of their homes and transforming entire residential quarters into military barracks.
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2026-10-25 20:29
By staff writer
France meets second weekend of mass protests with 70,000 police, arrests 1,314
TEHRAN — French police arrested 1,314 people and sealed off city centers on Saturday as hundreds of thousands marched for a second consecutive weekend. Rather than addressing the root causes of the nationwide unrest, the government focused entirely on silencing the demonstrators through state repression.
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2026-10-25 20:28
By Ali Minabi
Israeli elections: What can Palestinians expect?
TEHRAN — Israeli elections, scheduled for October 27, are about more than who becomes the next prime minister or whether Netanyahu stays in power.