U.S. has spent six trillion dollars on wars that killed 500,000 people since 9/11: Study

A study has revealed that the United States has spent nearly $6 trillion on wars that directly contributed to the deaths of about half a million people since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

North Korea tests ‘ultramodern tactical weapon’: state media

North Korea’s state media says the country’s leader Kim Jong-un has witnessed the test of an ultramodern tactical weapon in his first publicized visit to a weapons test site since the country’s test-launch of an ICBM last November.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

India, Iran have potential to strengthen ties in the current situation: ambassador  

TEHRAN – New Delhi’s top diplomat to Tehran is of the opinion that under the current circumstances that the Islamic Republic has come under sanctions by Trump’s White House, India and Iran can use their capacities in a positive way to strengthen ties. 

By Javad Heirannia

U.S. new sanctions will impact Iranians: Dorsey

TEHRAN - James M. Dorsey, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, says the new U.S. sanctions will affect the lives of the Iranian people. 

By Mohammad Ghaderi - Twitter: @ghaderi62 - Email: m.ghaderi62@gmail.com

Macron so far has augmented French isolation

TEHRAN - French President Emmanuel Macron has recently criticized the unilateral pullout of the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) but at the same time expressed pleasure that Washington has allowed France and the other JCOPOA signatories to stay in the Iran nuclear deal.

By Seyedeh Mahdieh Qoreishi

Saudi Arabia, a dilemma over ruling colonial or police state 

TEHRAN - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) announced the kickoff of Saudi Arabia’s massive Vision 2030 economic reform when implementation of these reforms required maximum stability and control of the country.

By Javad Heirannia

Elections were a referendum on Trump: Anna Eskamani

TEHRAN - State House Representative, Anna V. Eskamani, says that the recent elections in the U.S. were a referendum on President Trump.

By Javad Heirannia

Bin Salman will step down: Hossein Askari

TEHRAN – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes that with no doubt Mohammad bin Salman, ordered Khashoggi kidnapping, murder and disposal of the body. “I don’t believe that MBS can survive,” Hossein Askari, who served as special advisor to Saudi finance minister, tells the Tehran Times.

‘U.S. failed in Afghanistan’: Russia

TEHRAN _ A few days after Moscow hosted landmark ‘peace talks’ on Afghanistan, a senior Russian diplomat said Moscow has offered to broker Afghan peace talks because the U.S. has failed in bringing peace to the war-ravaged country.

Obama lieutenants admit responsibility for involving U.S. in Yemen war: Washington Post

Top Obama administration officials have drafted a letter acknowledging their responsibility for initiating U.S. involvement in Yemen’s destructive civil war and calling for the Trump administration to halt America’s role in the conflict, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

By Ramin Hossein Abadian

U.S. and the end of Yemen War, Washington’s attempt to save Riyadh’s ruling family 

TEHRAN - Recently, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued his strongest statement yet on the war in Yemen, calling for a cessation of hostilities in Yemen under UN-led negotiations.

By Hanif Ghaffari

A contemplation on the U.S. midterm elections 

TEHRAN - Referring to the Republican's partial victory in the Senate (which was quite predictable from the beginning), Donald Trump, president of the United States, has cheered over his great victory in the U.S. midterm elections! Democrats, on the other hand, claim victory for midterm elections based on their win in the House of Representatives, which has temporarily put an end to the Republican's dominance on this collection.

By Javad Heirannia

Religion is not major determinant of international actors' behavior: Hunter

TEHRAN - Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, tells the Tehran Times that Analysis of international relations has shown that very seldom religion per se determines behavior, whenever it does, it is by being part of the states' and non-state actors' ideational, ideological and value systems.

By Fateme Mohammadipour

2018 mid-term elections were referendum on Trumpism: Entessar

TEHRAN - Nader Entessar, Professor Emeritus of Political Science from university of South Alabama says that “in many ways the 2018 mid-term elections were a referendum on Trumpism.”

Turkey’s president says recording of Khashoggi’s killing was given to U.S.

WASHINGTON — Turkey said on Saturday that it had turned over an audio recording of the killing of a Saudi dissident to the United States and other Western countries, intensifying the pressure on President Trump to take stronger punitive measures against his allies in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia Quietly Revises Prince's Transformation Plan

Saudi Arabia has quietly revised its plan to overhaul its government and economy by 2020, lowering some targets as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ambitions bump up against the reality of implementation.