Qatari ITU submission confirms Iran’s retaliatory operations hit only US military assets

TEHRAN — Official documentation submitted by Doha to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) validates that Iran’s recent defensive measures aimed exclusively at American military infrastructure on Qatari soil, according to Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei.

By Shahrokh Saei 

Iran-Russia alliance grows despite US pressure

TEHRAN — Russia’s robust and uncompromising support for Iran in the face of US military adventurism and all-out economic warfare has made it abundantly clear that the strategic partnership between Tehran and Moscow will never be swayed, deterred, or disrupted by outside pressure. 

IRGC: Two oil tankers disabled after hitting sea mines

TEHRAN — The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that two ⁠oil ⁠tankers hit sea mines and were disabled ⁠while attempting to transit the ⁠Strait of Hormuz.

How Iran disabled the largest US naval base in West Asia

TEHRAN — The strategic architecture of the Persian Gulf underwent a seismic realignment with the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran that began on February 28. In a rapid and calculated operational response to the aggression, the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran executed precision retaliatory strikes against key military hubs across the region, dealing a severe and crippling blow to Washington’s forward-deployed infrastructure.

Iran war fractures US administration: Driscoll quits amid Pentagon chaos

TEHRAN — The resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has further exposed deep divisions within the US administration in the wake of a failed war Washington launched jointly with Israel on Iran some six months ago.

They came for a wedding dance, Trump gave them the dance of death

TEHRAN – A fresh wave of deadly missile strikes carried out by United States military forces against civilian infrastructure and residential gatherings across southern Iran on Tuesday night has left over a dozen people dead and scores of others wounded, triggering widespread outrage and renewed calls for international criminal accountability over blatant violations of international humanitarian law.

By Hossein Amiri

Camp Titin: Iran’s strike on a US Marine facility signals a wider strategic challenge

TEHRAN — Iran’s ballistic-missile strike on the US Marine Corps facility known as Camp Titin in Jordan could prove far more consequential for Washington than the damage inflicted at a single military site. The attack demonstrated that Iranian forces could reach a US position on the Gulf of Aqaba, hundreds of kilometers from the main theater around the Persian Gulf, while simultaneously striking or threatening American military infrastructure across several regional countries. 

Qalibaf: Iran will respond militarily if US intensifies blockade

TEHRAN — Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has warned that the United States has resorted to a “hybrid war” against the Islamic Republic in an attempt to compensate for its military and diplomatic failures.

SCO slams US-Israeli aggression, Ayatollah Khamenei’s assassination and sanctions on Iran

TEHRAN — Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) signed a joint statement on Tuesday, reiterating the Eurasian bloc’s denunciation of the unprovoked US and Israeli attacks on Iranian territory.

New US missile raises civilian casualty concerns after first use in Iran war

Which American weapon — and how — caused the Lamerd massacre on the first day of the attack on Iran?

TEHRAN — The apparent first combat use of a new US precision missile during the war against Iran has raised fresh concerns over the potential impact of advanced American weapons on civilian populations, with an investigation by Airwars finding evidence that the munition scattered lethal fragments across an area far wider than its publicly advertised fragmentation radius.