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Yesterday 21:14
By staff writer
Ground incursions, incendiary strikes mark dangerous Israeli escalation in south Lebanon
TEHRAN — Israeli forces launched a heavy wave of artillery fire, low-altitude air raids, and destructive ground incursions across southern Lebanon on Monday.
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Yesterday 21:14
By staff writer
Impulsive German leader left in a quandary
TEHRAN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is being squeezed badly by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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Yesterday 21:14
By staff writer
Ansarallah consolidates Red Sea control as Trump rejects MBS’ desperate appeals
TEHRAN — The Saudi campaign of aggression in Yemen is unraveling on the western coast. In a lightning offensive that swept through the coastal plain, Yemeni forces under Ansarallah command have captured the port city of Mokha, Mayyun Island, and strategic highlands in Lahij province.
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Yesterday 21:12
By Ali Minabi
The security and economic gamble facing Iraq
TEHRAN – This withdrawal of U.S. forces is not like its predecessor in 2011, and comparisons drawn from earlier stages of the American-Iraqi relationship are of no use here.
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2026-09-20 20:33
Conflicting interpretations of alleged UAE president’s warning to Netanyahu on Oct. 7 attack
TEHRAN – A UAE official has declined to explicitly confirm or deny reports that President Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of an imminent Hamas attack before October 7, 2023.
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2026-09-20 20:33
Riyadh's vulnerability exposed: report
Saudi Arabia and the United States do not have a clear plan to fight back against the Yemeni Armed Force (YAF) who took control of a strategically important island on the Red Sea.
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2026-09-20 20:33
By Ali Minabi
Iraq’s security risks amid US withdrawal
TEHRAN – There is intense debate in Baghdad over whether the anticipated U.S. military withdrawal will close one chapter or mark the beginning of another.
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2026-09-20 20:32
Ed Sheeran faces protests, desolate stage after opening acts walk out over Gaza genocide
TEHRAN — Dozens of demonstrators waving Palestinian flags converged outside Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday to confront a music industry built on complicity. Their signs carried blunt demands, telling Ed Sheeran and his promoters that concert revenue must no longer underwrite Israeli crimes.
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2026-09-20 20:32
Iran thwarted US, Israel change attempts: Hezbollah chief
Sheikh Qassem declares armed resistance the sole method to liberate occupied Palestinian
TEHRAN — Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem declared Saturday that the Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully defeated the core political objectives of the American-Israeli aggression launched against it earlier this year, proving that steadfastness can thwart imperialist war plans.
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2026-09-19 21:13
By staff writer
Flames engulf Riyadh airport fuel tank as Saudi crisis deepens
TEHRAN — Fire climbed the side of what was reported to be an Aramco fuel tank near King Khalid International Airport on Saturday morning. Thick plumes of black smoke poured into the Riyadh sky. Residents filmed the blaze from apartment balconies while commercial flight trackers showed the aviation hub completely paralyzed.
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2026-09-19 21:13
By staff writer
Israeli kills three Palestinians in Gaza including health official’s son
TEHRAN — Israel continues its systematic obliteration of Gaza. On Saturday, military forces killed three more Palestinians, blatantly violating the October 2025 “ceasefire agreement.” The death toll since the genocide began in 2023 now nears 74,000.
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2026-09-19 21:13
By M.A. Saki
Denmark makes strategic blunder by giving in to Trump’s annexation threats over Greenland
Greenland may prove to be another Palestine
TEHRAN – After threatening for much of his second term to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland by force, if necessary, Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States had reached an Arctic security pact with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland.
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2026-09-19 21:10
By Ali Minabi
How has Yemen’s role reshaped the regional conflict?
TEHRAN – Yemen, which was long viewed as the weakest link in the Arab world, is now influencing shipping and energy and holds one of the most sensitive cards in West Asia.
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2026-09-18 21:20
By staff writer
Denying Palestinians visa for UN summit contravenes peace and statehood
TEHRAN – Just like last year, the U.S. State Department has barred the Palestinian Authority delegation, including President Mahmoud Abbas, to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week.
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2026-09-18 17:01
100-meter shroud in New York displays names of over 20,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza
TEHRAN - The handwritten names of more than 20,000 Palestinian children who have been killed in the Gaza Strip were displayed on a 100-meter-long shroud at the UN Church Center in New York.
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2026-09-18 16:28
By Ali Minabi
Yemen denounces Saudi allegations of targeting Mecca
TEHRAN – Ansarallah leader Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has strongly rejected accusations by Saudi Arabia that Yemeni Armed Forces targeted the holy city of Mecca.
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2026-09-18 16:10
Iran ends the American Middle East: analysis
‘Trump’s debacle in Iran has shattered the illusion of American military omnipotence’
TEHRAN - Marc Lynch, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, says the failed U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has put an end to “the American Middle East.”
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2026-09-17 17:27
‘My whole family is either dead or injured’
At least 21 killed in Gaza building collapse, dozens missing
At least 21 people, including six children, were killed when a war-damaged residential building collapsed in Gaza City on Wednesday, local rescue officials said.
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2026-09-16 20:28
Yemeni Armed Forces strongly denies claim of attack on Mecca
TEHRAN - The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) issued a statement on Wednesday strongly dismissing claims by the Saudi Kingdom that its forces had launched a drone attack on the holy city of Mecca on Tuesday evening.
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2026-09-16 20:23
By staff writer
Syrians take to the streets as empty Western pledges leave them starving
TEHRAN — Streets across Syria erupted this week in the largest wave of civil unrest since the fall of the central government in Damascus in December 2024.
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2026-09-16 20:16
By Ali Minabi
Palestinian position on developments in Yemen
TEHRAN – Palestinian resistance forces, along with the overwhelming majority of the Palestinian people, make no secret of their deep appreciation for Ansarallah.
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2026-09-16 20:07
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Two nations, two gates, one golden key
TEHRAN — For six months, Washington’s story stayed the same: Iran and its allies are isolated, the resistance is finished, and the oil routes are safe under American control. Trump and his officials claimed all this happened in days, not years.
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2026-09-16 19:57
By M.A. Saki
Trump’s rejection of AI regulation is similar to his mindless climate change remarks
TEHRAN – In the same way that Donald Trump had dismissed global warming as a “hoax” invented by the Chinese, he has said fears about the safety of artificial intelligence (AI) are a "hoax". He also has criticized calls to have more guardrails in place for the fast-moving technology.
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2026-09-15 21:01
MBS turns to Israel after disastrous setbacks in Yemen: report
TEHRAN — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has turned to Israel for “emergency intelligence assistance” through U.S. Central Command following a major collapse of Saudi-backed mercenaries in Yemen, according to reports in Israeli media outlets including Israel Hayom and The Jerusalem Post.
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2026-09-15 21:01
By staff writer
‘NAZA’ documentary confirms AI mass murder in Gaza, triggers ‘treason’ charges
TEHRAN — An 80-minute Israeli documentary exposing the systematic, algorithmic murder of Palestinian civilians in Gaza has triggered a severe political breakdown inside the regime.
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2026-09-15 21:00
By Abir Bassam
Ali Al-Taher, why Netanyahu needed a closure
BEIRUT – The news about 'Ali Al-Taher' Hill has been ongoing since June of this year. The ‘Israeli’ political and strategic discussions, discussed on their talk shows and then followed by the rest of the regional TV channels and media outlets, made it the most famous hill ever. It was a dilemma manufactured by 'Israel,' serving as a political and distraction tool more than anything else.
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2026-09-15 19:54
By Ali Minabi
Bal al-Mandab battle: Trump watches on
TEHRAN – Why has the United States not intervened militarily to try to stop the advance of the Yemeni Armed Forces and prevent them from establishing full control over the Bab al-Mandab Strait?
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2026-09-15 19:40
By Martin Love
War on Iran the greatest error in U.S. history
NORTH CAROLINA - Probably half of U.S. citizens have been plunged into misery by the fact of the U.S.-Zionist war on Iran and support for Israel…even among those blindly ignorant of history and foreign countries and most everything else and whose weak primary complaint is the cost of gasoline.
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2026-09-15 19:06
Israel working to eliminate Palestinians from the West Bank, warn rights groups
Israel is executing a systematic and accelerated campaign to dismantle “Palestinian collective life” and establish permanent Jewish-Israeli sovereignty across the occupied West Bank, an Israeli human rights group has warned.
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2026-09-15 00:38
By Ali Minabi
From Balfour to Miliband: Has the West begun redefining Israel?
TEHRAN – It is difficult to treat British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s remarks about “ethnic cleansing” in parts of the occupied West Bank as simply another diplomatic position toward Israel.