Widening divide between the US and Europe

TEHRAN – The world is living through one of the most sensitive periods in international relations, a time when the “Atlantic Alliance” has faced a storm called Trumpism after decades of stability.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah strikes Israel’s Iron Dome launchers

TEHRAN – The Lebanese resistance is striking at the core of the Israeli regime’s security infrastructure, targeting advanced defense systems built over the years to protect settlements in the north.

By Garsha Vazirian

The irreversible shattering of Israel’s diplomatic armor

TEHRAN — The profound diplomatic unraveling confronting Israel in mid-2026 is neither a passing reputational crisis nor a temporary political phase that will vanish once the guns fall silent.

By Garsha Vazirian

NATO grapples with its unraveling under Washington’s predatory hegemony

TEHRAN — The official communiques emerging from the NATO foreign ministers’ gathering in Helsingborg, Sweden, spoke of enhanced burden sharing and a stronger, fairer alliance. Behind those anodyne formulations lies a transatlantic partnership in an advanced state of political decomposition.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah’s war media footage shakes Israel

TEHRAN – While the Zionist regime relentlessly broadcasts graphic scenes of devastation in Lebanon, how did Hezbollah successfully turn war media into a pivotal and powerful battlefield weapon?

By Garsha Vazirian

We can all thrive when the Abu Dhabi syndicate folds

TEHRAN — The Al Nahyan crime family has achieved a grim, singular trifecta: it has alienated its local citizenry, reduced its nine-million-strong migrant workforce to indentured cogs, and transformed a historic mercantile hub into a forward-operating base for the genocidal U.S.-Israeli military-intelligence complex.

Disgusting remarks against Sumud activists

Ben Gvir tramples human dignity of philanthropists

TEHRAN — Israeli Transport Minister Miri Regev has boasted about the mistreatment of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla detained by Israel, saying that “prison is the place for terrorism supporters”.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah drones wreak havoc on IOF in southern Lebanon 

TEHRAN – Hezbollah continues to confront Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in southern Lebanon and target soldier and vehicle gatherings with drones.

By Wesam Bahrani

Life in Gaza after the “Yellow Line”

TEHRAN – Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued to maintain a high level of activity, primarily in eastern Gaza City and Khan Younis, resulting in civilian casualties and damage to critical facilities.

Persian Gulf war raises risk of environmental disaster

TEHRAN – The dangerous war that the U.S. and Israel jointly started against Iran at the end of February has incredibly increased the risks of an environmental disaster, a Princeton University researcher warns.

By Garsha Vazirian

Inside the obsessive-compulsive loop of Trump’s digital noise machine

Ghostwritten tirades, em-dashed bluster, and cartoonish AI fantasies reveal Trump’s pathetic unraveling

TEHRAN — Donald Trump’s Truth Social feed is a daily ledger of strategic exhaustion that mistakes noise for authority. The feed functions as a round-the-clock psychological stage where the American presidency is performed in public view.

Three killed as gunmen target California mosque in hate-fueled attack

TEHRAN — Three people were killed in a brutal Islamophobic terror attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego, California, on Monday, when two teenage gunmen opened fire before dying by apparent suicide, leaving a community reeling and sparking urgent warnings about rising anti-Muslim hatred in the United States.

Shadows in the desert: How US treachery facilitated Israeli outposts on Iraqi soil

TEHRAN - A profound geopolitical scandal is unraveling in Baghdad following revelations that the United States weaponized its military presence to deceive Iraqi authorities, directly facilitating the establishment of at least two clandestine Israeli military outposts within Iraq’s borders.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah pounds IOF with FPV drones 

TEHRAN – The Lebanese resistance movement has announced more operations targeting the Israeli regime’s military positions and equipment inside Lebanese territory.

By Ranjan Solomon

Europe’s sluggish drift into irrelevance

Europe as spectator in a changing world order

GOA - Europe is currently experiencing a profound and rapid decline in its global political and economic influence, characterized by a shift toward irrelevance on the world stage, internal fragmentation, and economic stagnation.

Persian Gulf security cannot be bought: King’s College expert

TEHRAN - David B. Roberts, a reader in Middle East Security Studies at King’s College London, suggests that Arab states on the southern shores of the Persian Gulf must build their own security, rather than “buy” it.

Internal panic grips Israeli commanders as northern strategies implode

TEHRAN — At least eight civilians were killed across southern Lebanon in a wave of Israeli airstrikes, serving as the latest evidence that the “ceasefire” announced on April 16 has been systematically violated.

By Wesam Bahrani 

Why didn’t Iraq fill its cabinet seats?

TEHRAN – On Thursday, Iraq’s parliament approved only part of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s new cabinet. More than half the posts were confirmed, enough to legally seat the government. 

By Garsha Vazirian

When international law becomes a post-mortem archive

TEHRAN — A report published by Haaretz on May 17 suggests that the International Criminal Court is moving quietly toward new arrest warrants for senior Israeli figures, including Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, alongside military officials tied to the genocidal war on Gaza and the wider campaign of destruction across the region.

By Bobby Ciputra

The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing and the rise of corporate diplomacy

Who really rules the world today, the state or the market? Or is it just a handful of people behind the scenes?

JAKARTA —  U.S. President Donald Trump paid a two-day state visit to Beijing on May 14 and 15, meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah warns Lebanese authorities on talks with Israel

TEHRAN – On the anniversary of the 1983 “Agreement of Shame,” Hezbollah warns that direct talks with the Israeli regime risk surrendering Lebanese sovereignty and dignity to the enemy.

The UAE’s dangerous overreach

TEHRAN - The geopolitical landscape of the Persian Gulf has been radically redrawn following the intense 40-day military campaign launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28. While the broader conflict reached a fragile, Pakistani-mediated ceasefire in April, the diplomatic and economic aftershocks are still reverberating across the region. 

By Wesam Bahrani

Lebanon truce extension on fire

TEHRAN – The announcement of a 45-day extension to the so-called “ceasefire” in Lebanon has done little to stop the Israeli aggression. But it does raise questions about the Lebanese government.