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2026-01-28 21:30
Western pressure will not halt Iran’s scientific sovereignty, says nuclear chief
TEHRAN – Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), has condemned Western attempts to curtail the Islamic Republic’s “scientific advancement”, stating that neither sanctions nor political pressure will stop Tehran from mastering nuclear, quantum, and high-tech fields.
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2026/01/28
By Xavier Villar
From ICE to Iran: Power without symmetry
MADRID - Thomas Friedman’s recent column in The New York Times, in which he equated the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with Hamas, falls into an analytical simplification that ultimately obscures more than it clarifies.
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2026-01-28 21:24
By Soheila Zarfam
US plan: ‘Make Iran Texas again’
Senator Cruz wants to bring Texas-style weaponization to Iran, openly stating that Washington must arm terrorists
TEHRAN – Ted Cruz, the U.S. senator from Texas, has a reputation for rhetoric that often outpaces his grasp of its consequences. He was a central figure whose remarks fuelled the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and he remains infamous among his constituents for fleeing to Cancun during a deadly winter storm that crippled the state’s power grid. On the world stage, he is a reliable advocate for American military intervention, from West Asia to South America.
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2026-01-28 21:17
Collective efforts needed to counter US unchecked power: Sharif University
‘Overt military intimidation and economic strangulation designed to incite internal fragmentation entail global attention’
TEHRAN - Sharif University of Technology has issued a statement signed by 103 faculty members warning against the global threats of the unchecked power of the United States and the need for a collective responsibility to counter them.
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2026-01-28 21:13
US will suffer greatly if it attacks Iran: admiral
TEHRAN - Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, deputy chief of the Iranian Army for Coordination, on Wednesday warned the U.S. about any military adventure against Iran.
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2026-01-28 21:10
The extensive US military buildup around Iran
TEHRAN- Hamshahri discussed the extensive U.S. military buildup around Iran. According to the newspaper, relations between Iran and the U.S. are at one of their most sensitive and tense points in recent years. The extensive U.S. military deployment around Iran, from aircraft carriers and fighter jets to defense systems, is arranged in a way that makes this threat appear completely real and operational from a military perspective.
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2026-01-28 21:06
Iran’s Larijani, Qatar PM share views on regional developments
TEHRAN – Qatar’s prime minister on Wednesday telephoned Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, to share views about the latest developments in the region.
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2026/01/28
By Fatemeh Kavand
The West’s double standards on police violence
TEHRAN- In the West, police pursue opposition figures all the way to hospital beds and call it “law enforcement.” In Iran, police restraint is labeled a “bloody crackdown.” This deliberate double standard is not a media mistake; it is the organized censorship of truth and a core component of the narrative war against Iran.
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2026-01-28 20:55
Resolve issues with Iran one by one, Turkish FM tells US
TEHRAN – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday called on the United States to resolve its problems with Iran one by one.
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2026-01-28 20:52
If Iran attacked, it would unleash a conflict that would be impossible to control: senior analyst
TEHRAN - In an analysis on January 27, a Princeton University researcher argues that if Iran is attacked by the United States and Israel, the Islamic Republic will consider it as an “existential threat” and would unleash a conflict that would not be possible to control.
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2026-01-28 20:44
Diplomacy and threats are incompatible, Iran tells US
TEHRAN - Talking to reporters after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said diplomacy will fail to prove “effective” or “produce results” through military threats.
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2026-01-27 21:21
Iranian diplomats renew vow to Ayatollah Khamenei, demand tribunal for Trump
TEHRAN- Diplomats and ambassadors from the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a joint statement on Tuesday renewing their allegiance to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
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2026-01-27 21:16
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
America’s ‘big armada’ won’t change the equation — at least not in Trump’s favor
Rather than forcing capitulation, escalating US pressure is driving Iran to prepare for worst-case scenarios
TEHRAN – Since 2018, Tehran has been the primary actor exercising strategic patience to prevent tensions with Washington from spiralling into an all-out regional conflagration. This restraint has sprung from a recognition of the catastrophic costs of conflict—not only for Iran but for the Arab neighbors it has sought to court against Israeli expansionism, and for extra-regional allies like China that depend on West Asian energy.
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2026-01-27 21:02
‘Any limited strike will trigger an immediate all-out war’
TEHRAN — A senior military official from the Khatam-al-Anbia Central Headquarters has delivered a stark ultimatum to non-regional military actors, declaring that Iran’s defense apparatus has transitioned into a state of total vigilance where the distinction between a “limited” engagement and an all-out war has effectively vanished.
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2026-01-27 21:01
Tehran denounces US threats of force, state-sponsored unrest
TEHRAN — Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani, has delivered an indictment of United States foreign policy, characterizing Washington’s recent actions and threats as a “deliberate and systematic assault” on international law.
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2026-01-27 21:01
Saudi Arabia considers any threat, escalation against Iran ‘unacceptable:’ MBS
TEHRAN — Reflecting the increasingly coordinated stance of the region’s two major powers, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has declared his kingdom’s opposition to external threats against the Islamic Republic.
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2026-01-27 21:00
Third group of deported Iranians returns home
TEHRAN — The third group of Iranian nationals to be forcibly expelled from the United States arrived at Imam Khomeini International Airport on Monday, January 26, escaping months of reported systemic neglect and inhumane treatment within the American detention system.
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2026-01-27 20:57
TEHRAN PAPERS:
Arab countries oppose US attack on Iran
TEHRAN - Donya-e-Eqtesad, in a note, addressed Arab countries’ opposition to a possible U.S. attack on Iran. According to the newspaper, from the perspective of the Persian Gulf (Arab) countries, the red lines have been repeatedly violated, and the possibility of war is looming large with the passage of time.
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2026-01-27 20:45
US put on trial for the 2024 Kerman terrorist attack
TEHRAN - A court hearing was held about the United States’ complicity in the terrorist attack by ISIS operatives in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman on January 3, 2024, as people were marking four years since General Qassem Soleimani had been assassinated.
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2026-01-27 19:32
Open Israeli role in Iran unrest marks new escalation: Canadian historian
Samir Saul says Mossad activity is increasingly visible following the June 2025 failure
TEHRAN — In an interview with the Tehran Times, Canadian historian and political economist Samir Saul offers a critical assessment of U.S. and Israeli involvement in the protests that unfolded in Iran in January, with a particular attention to U.S. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric.
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2026-01-26 21:24
Foreign Ministry’s warning regarding any possible aggression against Iran:
‘Sweeping and regret-inducing’
TEHRAN — Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei issued a definitive warning on January 26, declaring that the Islamic Republic is fully prepared to deliver a “sweeping, regret-inducing response” to any act of aggression.
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2026-01-26 20:58
By Sheida Sabzehvari
Iran will not fight alone this time
From Baghdad to Beirut, Tehran’s partners signal a wider war if US strikes
TEHRAN – As U.S. naval deployments in the Persian Gulf intensify and Washington hints at the possibility of renewed aggression, a constellation of Iran’s allied forces across West Asia are issuing coordinated warnings that a second war against the country would ignite a region-wide confrontation — one that neither the United States nor Israel, they say, is prepared to contain.
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2026-01-26 20:31
Aggression against Iran would entail ‘serious destabilization’: Kremlin
TEHRAN — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov issued a sharp warning on Monday, stating that any military strike against the Islamic Republic would result in a “serious destabilization” of the Middle East.
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2026/01/26
By Xavier Villar
The hidden strategic toll of confronting Tehran
MADRID - In Washington, there remains a persistent temptation to treat a confrontation with Iran as a modular option. Limited strikes, punitive operations, calibrated actions aimed at restoring deterrence without altering the broader strategic balance. That logic has proven effective in other contexts, but with Iran, it is increasingly less so. A US attack on Iranian territory would not be interpreted as a discrete operation or as another episode in a long-standing rivalry. It would be read as a strategic rupture: the moment when the accumulated power of the United States in the Middle East begins generating adverse effects that reinforce one another.
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2026-01-26 19:33
Tehran slams foreign media’s ‘fictional storytelling’ on detainee medical neglect
TEHRAN — The Tehran Province Prisons Department issued a rebuttal on Monday against a wave of “fictional storytelling” and coordinated disinformation campaigns orchestrated by foreign-based Persian-language media.
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2026-01-26 19:26
Imminent war or military show?
TEHRAN - Sobh-e-No analyzed the increased American activity in the Persian Gulf. The newspaper argues that the increased U.S. military activity in the Persian Gulf, along with the activation of the Iran human rights file in the UN Human Rights Council, has led analysts to speculate about the possibility of a U.S. military attack on Iran.
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2026-01-26 19:05
By Shima Naseri
US can’t shirk its legal responsibility regarding the recent unrest in Iran
TEHRAN - The events of January 8 and 9 once again revealed the operational and structural linkage between the Zionist regime and the United States within the context of regional armed conflicts. These events were not merely a series of field or military developments; rather, they carry profound legal implications that, from the perspective of international law—particularly international humanitarian law and human rights law—require serious examination. Neglecting these legal dimensions means normalizing violations of the very principles upon which the foundation of the international legal order rests.
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2026-01-25 20:39
By Xavier Villar
The political language used to frame Iran
MADRID - There is an art, almost a science, to the construction of a journalistic narrative that, under the appearance of balance and rigor, guides the reader toward a predetermined conclusion. This is not the overt propaganda of the twentieth century, with its recognizable slogans and incendiary language, but a more sophisticated procedure.
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2026-01-25 20:39
US has absolutely zero credibility on human rights: Japanese professor
Saul Takahashi says Trump encourages protests in Iran as sanctions deepen economic hardship
TEHRAN - In an interview with the Tehran Times, Japanese human rights lawyer and academic Saul Takahashi critically examines U.S. and Israeli policies toward Iran amid the unrest that engulfed the country in the first 10 ten days of the current month.
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2026-01-25 20:30
By Batool Subeiti
Why American threats against Iran will fail
LONDON - U.S. saber-rattling against Iran may signal a turning point in West Asia, tempering Trump’s euphoria following his successes in the Caribbean and challenging his perception of himself as an uncontested global hegemon.