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Today 00:20
By Mohammad Mazhari
Kuwait Emir always had fears of Saudi policies: Lebanese academic
TEHRAN - Head of the Center for Political Studies at the University of Lebanon says that Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah was always concerned about Saudi adventures in the region, fearing Riyadh may push other Arab countries into wars of attrition.
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Today 00:03
By Amir Miri
Why many political experts believe Biden is the next president
TEHRAN - In recent weeks some surveys show that Donald Trump, regardless of how much he is hated by some segments of the American society, he will win the November election.
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Yesterday 17:35
By Payman Yazdani
New mechanism necessary to settle tensions in Karabakh
TEHRAN– Due to the unwillingness or failure of the OSCE Minsk Group to settle conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan, forming a new mediation group by the countries' neighbors including Iran, Turkey, and Russia is necessary.
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Yesterday 12:03
By Mohammad Mazhari
Biden will definitely revisit the JCPOA if elected president, scholar says
“America has no soft power anywhere any longer,” says American Professor William Beeman
TEHRAN - An American scholar, William Beeman, is quite sure that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will join the 2015 nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) if he wins the November presidential elections.
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2020-09-29 17:28
Kuwait's Emir dies at 91
Kuwaiti Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 91, has passed away.
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2020-09-28 11:28
By Payman Yazdani
Neither Biden nor Trump bodes well for Turkey
TEHRAN – Faruk Logoglu says Biden has been consistently anti-Turkish throughout his political career and Trump doesn't see Turkey as an ally, so it is up to Turkey to review its outlook and policy toward the US.
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2020/09/27
By Mohammad Mazhari
A bizarre election: American democracy at dead end
U.S. election will be on the line this November, but what about the American democracy? Trump's policies and statements not only have dangerously made America's democratic health hang in the balance but also the country's integrity as a whole.
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2020-09-27 21:14
By Mohammad Mazhari
Facing defeats, Saddam started using chemical arms against Iranians in 1983: expert
Saddam’s war against Iran “was a disaster” for Iraqis, says analyst
TEHRAN - An Iraqi analyst says Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein started gassing Iranians at the start of the 1983 because he realized that his army was being defeated by Iranian military forces.
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2020/09/26
By Abir Bassam
American threats of assassinations: What follows?
It seems that American President Donald Trump is greatly enjoying the game of power. He must have lost his balance as a credible businessman to becoming a genuine cowboy, raising his pistol, and shooting all around. His ego is becoming more inflated every day. This was bluntly expressed on the 16th of September in his interview on Fox News, bragging his decision to assassinate another state's president.
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2020-09-26 20:48
By Mohammad Mazhari
Saddam rewarded those who backed him against Iran by capturing Kuwait: Iraqi expert
TEHRAN - Najah Mohammad Ali, an Iraqi analyst, says that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia took a very hostile position against Iran during Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran in the 1980s but Saddam rewarded them by capturing Kuwait.
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2020-09-22 22:00
By Amir Mohammad Esmaeili
EU unable to pursue independent policy toward Iran: Italian geopolitical analyst
“All the recent agreements signed on the Palestinians' skin must be read as anti-Iranian moves”
TEHRAN - An Italian geopolitical analyst says since the European Union doesn't have an "autonomous army from U.S. control" it cannot pursue and independent foreign policy toward Iran and other important issues.
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2020-09-22 11:25
By Amir Mohammad Esmaeili
Terrorism by West and Israel considered ‘self-defense’, says Canadian lawyer
“Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are not allowed the right to resist foreign invaders which is a protected right under International law.”
TEHRAN - Edward C. Corrigan, a Canadian analyst, and lawyer, says the acts of terrorism committed by the West and its ally Israel are justified as “self-defense”. “Terrorism conducted by the West, and our ally Israel, is not considered terrorism but “self-defense,” Corrigan tells the Tehran Times.
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2020-09-21 12:17
By Zahra Mirzafarjouyan
China, Russia next targets if U.S. wins in undermining Iran
TEHRAN – Pointing to U.S. unlawful move to reimpose sanctions against Iran and importance of confronting its unilateralism, Cartalucci said China and Russia are next targets of the U.S. if it will be successful in undermining of Iran.
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2020-09-21 11:43
By Laurent Guyénot
“New world order pledged to Jews” 80 years ago
Most Zionist diplomacy takes place in secret, through corruption and blackmail (euphemistically called “lobbying”). But sometimes it is deemed appropriate that some statement be written down by some government representative in support of Zionism. The Goyim who write these statements may think them of little consequence, but Zionists know very well how to capitalize on them.
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2020-09-20 23:14
By Mohammad Mazhari
Israel's greatest fear is rapprochement between Ankara and Tehran: Turkish politician
Dogan Bekin likens UAE-Bahrain normalization deals with Israel to ‘cotton thread’
TEHRAN – Dogan Bekin, vice president of the New Welfare Party in Turkey, is of the opinion that Israel's greatest fear is a rapprochement between countries like Turkey and Iran as two regional powers.
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2020-09-20 23:13
By Mohammad Mazhari
Bahraini regime’s function is to serve Western powers’ interests: Bahraini activist
TEHRAN – A Bahraini political activist says the Bahraini regime’s function is to serve the interests of Western powers in the region.
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2020-09-18 23:18
By Mohammad Mazhari
U.S. sanctions bring Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran together: Russian academic
TEHRAN - An associate professor in the Department of Comparative Politics at Russia’s RUDN University believes that the United States' sanctions are one of the factors that bring Iran, Russia, and China together.
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2020/09/18
By Abir Bassam
Lebanon boiling over its harbor hot tin
What is being cooked in Beirut's harbor? It seems that there are urgent needs to keep Lebanon on guard. The country is barely picking itself up after the blast on the 4th of August. Now, it is going through another dilemma as the fire burst on the 10th of September. The two major accidents suggest that the time has not yet come for Beirut to write its closure.
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2020-09-18 14:41
By Zahra Mirzafarjouyan
Iran-Venezuela ties offering anti-unilateralism model: envoy
TEHRAN – Stating that the hegemony of the US is over, Venezuela's Ambassador to Tehran told Mehr News Agency that the Iran-Venezuela relations are conveying a message to other countries that they can counter the unilateralism too.
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2020-09-18 14:31
By Payman Yazdani
UAE, Bahrain seeking ties with Tel Aviv to ensure US support
TEHRAN– A renowned university professor and political analyst believes that the rulers of the UAE and Bahrain consider relations with the Israeli regime as a guarantee for the United States’ long-lasting support for their regimes.
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2020-09-16 21:00
By Mohammad Mazhari
Riyadh pushed Bahrain, UAE to normalize ties with Israel: human right defender
TEHRAN – A human rights defender, Yahya Alhadid, predicts that Saudi Arabia will join the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to declare a normalization of ties with the Israeli regime, noting that Riyadh had nodded and backed normalization of ties with Israel by the UAE and Bahrain.
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2020-09-16 20:59
By Reza Moshfegh
MEK commanders treat members like serfs: Albanian journalist
TEHRAN - An Albanian journalist reveals that MEK commanders treat their members as “serfs and as robots”.
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2020-09-16 00:46
By Mohammad Mazhari
Negotiations with Taliban proved U.S. policy in Afghanistan has badly failed: Pakistani analyst
“Trump will pressure the Afghan government to make a deal before the U.S. Presidential elections”
TEHRAN – A Pakistani political analyst says U.S. military campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan “has badly failed”.
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2020-09-15 18:35
By Mehdi Azizi
Bahrain’s normalization deal: mission of godfather’s pawns
TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia, the godfather, has sent off its insignificant pawns to play the chess game of "normalization of relations with Israel" first to test the waters for its own normalization of relations with the regime.
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2020-09-14 20:38
By Mohammad Mazhari
China, Russia, and Iran have their say in the region: Russian analyst
TEHRAN – The naval exercise in 2019 carried jointly by Iran, Russia and China in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman sent a clear message to the U.S and its allies in the Persian Gulf region that these three countries “have their own policies in the region,” says a Russian expert on the Middle East at the Russian International Affairs Council.
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2020-09-14 20:36
By Mohammad Mazhari
Persian Gulf states' hypocrisy is being revealed: Iraqi politician
TEHRAN – The spokesman of the al-Sadeghoun movement in Iraq says that the normalization of ties between some Arab countries with Israel has revealed these regimes' hypocrisy.
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2020-09-14 16:05
By Mohammad Mazhari
Paris wishes to revive its colonial past: Turkish researcher
TEHRAN - Dogacan Basharan, a Turkish researcher, says France wants to play a key role in the events evolving in the eastern Mediterranean by filling the gap left in the region now that the U.S. is leaving the region.
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2020/09/14
By Khalid Qaddoumi
Normalization between some Arab governments and ‘Israel’: Facts and figures
The term itself says that something is not "normal". It needs to be normalized, or something that was a taboo is converted into permissible. This is the situation of the relations between Arabs and "Israel" since the Palestinians' catastrophe (Nakba) in 1948 when the "Israeli" occupation started. Hence, no doubt this topic is controversial and paradoxical.
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2020-09-14 12:03
Japan to vote on Shinzo Abe successor, Yoshihide Suga widely expected to be winner
Japan's governing party is set to vote Monday on a new leader to succeed Shinzo Abe, the winner is widely expected to be 71-year-old Yoshihide Suga who serves as chief cabinet secretary in the current administration.
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2020-09-12 21:57
By Laurent Guyénot
9/11 was a false flag operation planned by Zionist agents: French anthropologist
TEHRAN - Laurent Guyénot, a French author and anthropologist, tells the Tehran Times that 9/11 was “a false flag” and a “network of super-sayanim closely connected” to the Zionists.
