By Garsha Vazirian

A blue sweater and a shoe in the bombed schoolyard

100+ days after the Pentagon vaporized a primary school in Minab, a look at the architects and accomplices behind the modern My Lai

TEHRAN — Over 100 days have passed since the missiles struck. Over 100 days of grief that does not diminish, of mothers holding schoolbooks of their martyred children, of small graves that should never have been dug.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israeli efforts to spread crime in Gaza: The goals and tools

TEHRAN – In Gaza, the Israeli regime’s systematic targeting of security agencies is an attempt to achieve several objectives, foremost among them portraying the coastal enclave as a lawless region where no authority exists.

From Siniora’s tears in 2006 to Iran’s missiles in 2026

TEHRAN —When Lebanon came under a cruel attack by Israel in the summer of 2006, Arab foreign ministers gathered in Beirut on August 7 to express their support for Lebanon. At the time, Fouad Siniora was Lebanon’s prime minister.

By Garsha Vazirian

How Israel justifies bombing anything that exists

TEHRAN — In another flagrant breach of the fragile April ceasefire in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and its allies, the Israeli military executed a brazen airstrike against the Mahshahr petrochemical complex in southwestern Iran on June 8.

By Wesam Bahrani

How did Lebanon’s government approve surrender document?

TEHRAN – The understandings announced between Lebanon and the Israeli regime in April and June raise an analytical question that extends beyond their immediate political significance to their underlying legal structure.

‘They only understand the language of force,’ Ghalibaf says after Dahieh bombing

Israeli forces launch a calculated assault on a Beirut housing complex

TEHRAN — Israeli warplanes launched a deadly airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahieh on Sunday afternoon, hitting a residential building in the Tahwitat al-Ghadir neighborhood and killing two citizens while wounding 11 others.

‘Revealing limits of US protection’

TEHRAN - In a commentary published on the Al Jazeera website on June 7, a globally recognized expert in Middle Eastern politics and regional diplomacy wrote that Iran’s response to the joint U.S.-Israeli war of aggression on the Islamic Republic revealed the “limits of U.S. protection”.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israeli army “bleeding” in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN – Israeli news outlets have acknowledged that the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) is “bleeding in the quagmire” of southern Lebanon after Hezbollah inflicted yet more casualties.

By Garsha Vazirian

Inside the structural collapse of Israel’s global legitimacy

TEHRAN – Something fundamental has broken in the architecture of global opinion, and no amount of propaganda from Tel Aviv or cover from Washington can piece it back together.

Lebanese government’s reliance on US leaves it exposed

TEHRAN – Lebanon’s government continues to insist that proximity to the United States grants it absolute protection or that it can shield Lebanon from Israeli aggression.

By Garsha Vazirian

How the antifragile fusion of Ghadir and Ashura shields the Islamic Republic

TEHRAN — Western intelligence agencies consistently miscalculate the endurance of the Islamic Republic of Iran because they rely on a fragile, linear epistemology.

By Wesam Bahrani

Netanyahu “rejects” withdrawal from South Lebanon

TEHRAN – Netanyahu reportedly has no plans to withdraw occupation forces from southern Lebanon in the foreseeable future, as aggression against towns and villages across the region continues.

Germany is punished at the UN

TEHRAN - Germany’s failure to secure a temporary seat on the UN Security Council on Wednesday came as a blow to Berlin.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israel’s war objectives in Lebanon shrink

TEHRAN – The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have acknowledged casualties to more soldiers in southern Lebanon as the Zionist regime’s war objectives diminish in the face of Hezbollah’s strong resistance.

By Garsha Vazirian

The ghost of Beaufort Castle

TEHRAN – The diplomatic language surrounding the conflict in southern Lebanon has undergone a fundamental shift. For months, international statements had been couched in the cautious lexicon of border clashes and temporary security measures.

Grieving story of Lebanese and Gazan students facing existential struggle

TEHRAN – Leen Ezzeddine’s Harvard Medical School graduation speech presents a critique of how the global system values human life and intellectual freedom. It compares the physical destruction of life and education in Lebanon and Gaza with the institutional suppression of speech in the West.

Trump’s incompetent diplomats and negotiators

Personal business ties and loyalty are Trump’s yardstick for naming diplomats

TEHRAN – President Trump has consistently favored real estate developers, major business executives, and corporate negotiators for high-profile diplomatic and envoy positions.

By Garsha Vazirian

Why Bahrain’s monarchy treats its people as an enemy

TEHRAN — There is an unspoken rule driving the security apparatus inside Manama: a population you deeply distrust can never be governed, only contained. The Al Khalifa monarchy, an absolute Sunni ruling elite dominating a native Shia majority, acts less like a sovereign government and more like an anxious security regime.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israel suffers more casualties in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime has acknowledged that another soldier has been killed and three others injured during clashes with Hezbollah resistance fighters in southern Lebanon.

Revelation: Truce in Gaza is a ‘joke’

‘Shooting Palestinian children while playing is documented’

TEHRAN - The Israeli combat soldier saw his teammates yelling in celebration, congratulating one another. They had just struck a vehicle of Palestinians driving near the Israeli-controlled part of the Gaza Strip, killing everyone inside.

By Garsha Vazirian

Dadi Barnea’s strategic suicide and Mossad’s unwitting gifts that strengthened Iran

TEHRAN – When David “Dadi” Barnea packs his boxes at the Mossad headquarters in Glilot this June, he will leave behind a shattered agency and a legacy defined by profound strategic incompetence.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah inflicts more casualties on Israeli troops

TEHRAN – The Zionist regime has reported increasing casualties among the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) as it attempts to portray its aggression and expanded occupation in southern Lebanon as a success.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah wages heroic resistance against Israeli aggression

TEHRAN – Hezbollah has detailed a wide range of operations against Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), installations, and vehicles across occupied southern Lebanon and northern settlements.

By Garsha Vazirian

American-Israeli ‘ceasefires’ are a trap; Gaza is the proof

TEHRAN — On May 28, at the Ein Prat Leadership Academy inside an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, Benjamin Netanyahu dropped the final pretense of Washington’s diplomatic framework.

By Garsha Vazirian

The shock absorber doctrine and the ‘Abraham’ suicide pact

TEHRAN – The old American playbook in the Middle East has completely shed its diplomatic veneer. Arab capitals are not treated as sovereign partners; instead, they have been strategically downgraded to regional shock absorbers designed to absorb the geopolitical, economic, and military blows meant for Tel Aviv and Washington.

By Wesam Bahrani 

America’s support for Lebanon: A deadly friendship

TEHRAN – The lessons drawn from the history of U.S. relations, whether with governments or non-state actors across the world and the region, point to a dramatic and painful end to such alliances.