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  • Hamas fighters 2025-10-01 18:55

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    IOF comes under fierce attack in Gaza

    TEHRAN – Palestinian resistance forces intensify attacks against the occupying regime’s military in the totally besieged Gaza Strip.

  • Greta Thunberg and a crew member flash victory signs aboard their ship, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla seeking to reach Gaza and challenge Israel's naval blockade on September 25, 2025 (Reuters) 2025-10-01 18:48

    By Shahrokh Saei 

    Breaking the blockade: Global Sumud Flotilla’s high-stakes journey to Gaza

    TEHRAN – Concerns are growing over Israel’s aggressive actions against the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is approaching Gaza in a bid to break the longstanding Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory. 

  • Trump Netanyahu 2025-09-30 20:18

    By staff writer

    Peace plan or disaster plot

    Inside Trump's 20-point proposal to end the Gaza war

    TEHRAN – Nearly two years into its genocidal war on Gaza, Israel backed by the United States finds itself at a stalemate. Despite relentless military campaigns, Gaza’s resistance groups remain active, their networks weakened but far from defeated. The battlefield has failed to deliver the decisive victory Israel had hoped for, and a new strategy is now emerging.

  • Israeli casulties 2025-09-30 19:09

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    Over a dozen IOF casualties in Gaza 

    TEHRAN – Fighters from the Palestinian resistance groups have carried out a series of operations against Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, and released details and video footage of the actions.

  • Sumud Flotilla 2025-09-30 18:53

    Sumud flotilla enters Gaza danger zone

    The Global Sumud Flotilla entered what organizers called Gaza’s “danger zone” on Tuesday, pressing east after repairs and carrying urgent medicine, food, and international volunteers in a bid to challenge Israel’s naval blockade.

  • Lebanon flag 2025-09-30 17:55

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Why does Lebanese Forces party continue to incite discord?

    BEIRUT — The Lebanese Forces party is openly framing the upcoming elections as an existential battle, amplifying rhetoric that risks fuelling internal discord through media campaigns and theatrical displays in Parliament.

  • Palestine flag in Gaza 2025-09-30 16:35

    Hamas, PIJ react to US–Israeli proposal, warn it ‘prolongs Gaza genocide’

    Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza have reacted to the “peace plan” introduced by US President Donald Trump on 29 September, calling it “vague” and accusing it of supporting Israeli aims to “prolong the genocide in Gaza,” according to The Cradle.

  • Israeli military in Gaza 2025-09-30 16:26

    Netanyahu vows Israeli forces will not leave Gaza

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised on Tuesday that Israeli forces will not be leaving Gaza, despite references to their withdrawal in the Donald Trump-approved "peace plan", according to the Middle East Eye.

  • Maduro 2025-09-30 14:47

    Venezuela weighs emergency decree as Maduro warns of US aggression

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he is prepared to declare a state of emergency in response to what he called U.S. “aggression,” after deadly American strikes on small boats in international waters off Venezuela’s coast.

  • Yemen's Palestine-2 Missile 2025-09-29 19:35

    By Garsha Vazirian

    From Tel Aviv to Eilat: How Yemen pierces Israeli illusions of security

    TEHRAN – Yemen’s Ansarullah declared on Monday that its forces had carried out a new operation against Israel, unveiling the use of a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile in a strike on “sensitive targets” in Tel Aviv.

  • Tony Blair 2025-09-29 18:56

    Tony Blair “unwelcome” in Palestine 

    Hamas describes Blair as a “partner of the devil” 

    TEHRAN – A senior Hamas political bureau member has declared that Tony Blair is considered an “unwelcome figure in Palestine.” 

  • Lebanon 2025-09-29 18:28

    By Sondoss Al Asaad 

    Hezbollah upsets the enemy’s calculations

    BEIRUT—The commemoration of the first anniversary of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s martyrdom served as a pivotal moment for the Resistance to recalibrate its internal dynamics, with the massive turnout underscoring Hezbollah’s enduring popular support and organizational unity.

  • Sumud 2025-09-29 16:12

    Global Sumud Flotilla approaches Gaza to break Israeli blockade

    An international aid flotilla is approaching the Gaza Strip in a bid to break an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian enclave, organizers said Monday, Anadolu reported. 

  • Gaza family 2025-09-29 14:59

    Israel to Gaza families: Collaborate or face death

    Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented a dangerous policy of extortion by Israeli forces against families in the Gaza Strip, presenting them with a catastrophic, no-win choice: either collaborate with the Israeli army and its militias, or face mass killing, starvation and forcible displacement.

  • UNRWA 2025-09-29 14:30

    UNRWA calls for immediate ceasefire to allow critical aid into Gaza

    UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said his organization’s food supplies “to cover the most critical needs of people in Gaza” will run out within the next three months.

  • Protesters gather near the Brandenburg Gate in the centre of Berlin. 2025-09-28 19:49

    By staff writer 

    Germans demand government end support for Gaza butcher 

    100,000+ marched in Berlin against Israeli genocide and government complicity

    TEHRAN – The growing disconnect between public sentiment in Germany and the government’s pro-Israel stance was on full display this weekend as Berlin hosted its largest-ever protest in solidarity with Gaza, against the backdrop of Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in the territory.

  • Israel Gaza 2025-09-28 19:18

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    Gaza civilian injuries mirror war zones

    TEHRAN – The U.S.-backed Israeli genocidal war on Gaza has inflicted war-zone level injuries on civilians, research finds. 

  • Lebanon maritime 2025-09-28 19:14

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    How did Nawaf Salam’s government relinquish Lebanon’s maritime rights?

    BEIRUT — With every step Lebanon takes to demarcate its borders in an effort to assert its rights, the outcome seems to be yet another loss. This was the case in 2007, again in 2022, and it is unfolding once more today.

  • Indonesia 2025-09-28 18:55

    By Sedigheh Hosseini

    Indonesians hail Iran as symbol of resistance and steadfast backer of Palestine

    BALI – In interviews with a Tehran Times reporter, several Indonesian citizens highlighted Iran’s historical, cultural, and political significance, describing the country as a “symbol of resistance” and a steadfast supporter of Palestine.

  • Bibi in UN 2025-09-27 19:50

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    Netanyahu “alone” blocking ceasefire deal

    TEHRAN – Hamas has reiterated its readiness for a ceasefire deal to end the genocide while emphasizing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the only obstruction to peace. 

  • Colombian President Gustavo Petro 2025-09-27 19:47

    By staff writer 

    Gustavo Petro revives Colombia’s Bolivarian legacy

    TEHRAN – Colombian President Gustavo Petro has placed his country firmly at the heart of the global struggle for justice, using his appearance at the United Nations General Assembly in New York to call for decisive international action in support of Palestine. 

  • Initial estimates suggest that more than 100,000 took part in the first martyrdom anniversary of Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine. The ceremony was held at the shrine of the Nation’s Supreme Martyr. 2025-09-27 19:21

    By Sondoss Al Asaad 

    Martyrdom anniversary of Nasrallah: Intersections of popular and political discourse

    BEIRUT — The first anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah became a transnational event, bringing together the deep popular sentiment on the one hand and its political and regional dimensions on the other. 

  • Israel’s war on media is a ‘deliberate massacre 2025-09-27 18:50

    By Sahar Dadjoo

    South African journalist: Israel’s war on media is a ‘deliberate massacre’

    Deshnee Subramany tells Tehran Times about solidarity with Gaza journalists and the lessons from South Africa’s apartheid past

    TEHRAN- For South African journalist Deshnee Subramany, the struggle for Palestinian press freedom is deeply personal. Sitting at her desk earlier this year, she was overwhelmed by a steady stream of devastating news: journalist after journalist killed in Gaza.

  • Netanyahu 2025-09-26 21:41

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Protests and walkouts eclipse Netanyahu’s UN appearance

    TEHRAN – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday was an attempt at a carefully staged and combative defense of Israel’s aggressive campaign in Gaza and its wider military actions across the region. Yet the performance could not mask the widening gulf between his narrative and the findings of international institutions, public-health agencies, and human-rights organizations.

  • President Xi Jinping met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 2, 2025 2025-09-26 20:17

    By Shahrokh Saei 

    Iran and China deepen cooperation under Global Governance Initiative

    TEHRAN – Since Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), the mechanism has been broadly welcomed by countries across the world, including Iran.

  • Portraits of two former Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah, right and Hashem Safieddine, left, are projected onto the landmark Raouche sea rock during an event commemorating their deaths in Israeli airstrikes a year ago, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) 2025-09-26 18:21

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Lebanon PM vs. the Resistance: Who stands to gain?

    BEIRUT— The tables have turned. Instead of a few dozen young men gathering to participate in a national event, thousands of people filled the seafront and all the roads leading to the Raouche Rock monument.

  • Hamas Abbas 2025-09-26 18:15

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    Hamas rebukes PA statement to UN 

    TEHRAN – Hamas says resistance is a natural right of the Palestinian people facing genocide and crimes against humanity. 

  • Sumud Flotilla 2025-09-26 17:24

    Warnings of imminent Israeli strike shadow Gaza flotilla amid pressure to reroute supplies

    The Global Sumud Flotilla, a convoy of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, pressed forward Thursday despite government warnings of an imminent Israeli attack.

  • Gaza genocide 2025/09/24

    By Meysam Rafiee

    Ideology with a democratic flavor

    Reviewing the actions of the Middle East's sole democracy in Gaza

    TEHRAN - Israel presents itself as a beacon of democracy in the Middle East, claiming to be the region's only democratic structure. However, this self-portrayal stands in stark contrast to its actions.

  • Sumud 2025-09-24 19:45

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Israeli drones in the dark and the flotilla the world lets bleed

    TEHRAN – In the small hours of Wednesday, activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla reported a night of sustained aerial harassment: low-flying drones, at least 13 detonations around vessels, objects dropped on decks, and deliberate jamming of ship radios as crews dived for cover.