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2019-07-17 11:21
By Fatemeh Salehi
Al Arabiya’s new blunder rose tensions: unprofessionalism of Bin Salman’s media
TEHRAN - Al Arabiya channel has recently made a terrible new blunder that has infuriated the Kuwaitis. This is a new mistake of Al Arabiya which was already famous for fueling tension and hatred by spreading false news.
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2019-07-15 11:35
By Ramin Hossein Abadian
Details of Mogherini’s trip to Baghdad: Iraq’s clear messages about Iran
TEHRAN - Federica Mogherini, the high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, heading a diplomatic delegation, arrived in Baghdad on Saturday. This was Mogherini’s first trip to Iraq since 2014.
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2019-07-14 14:17
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
The U.S. and the JCPOA: Carrot-and-stick diplomacy without the carrot
“Trump was in violation of the deal well before he withdrew from it.” —Fred Kaplan
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2019-07-14 10:43
By Martin Love
The Jeffrey Epstein case could sink U.S. elites and induce real change
NORTH CAROLINA - If anything can get worse, like the corruption among the powerful and wealthy in the U.S. in recent decades, it just has.
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2019-07-13 09:56
By Morteza Khansari
Has Trump fulfilled his campaign promises?
TEHRAN - Donald Trump’s foreign policies and security strategies have been recently called into question, even by the White House staff and the Congress. Since Trump took the office, averagely, at least one person from the administrative office of the White House got fired every month, and some of them were even put on trial. The last person who got fired was Sarah Sanders, the former White House press secretary.
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2019-07-10 22:10
By Morteza Khansari
A new world order with changes in power balance: Dividing the world into opponents and friends
TEHRAN - By withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), the United States and Russia finally pulled away the iron curtain of the cold war. Seemingly, the two countries want to change the common defensive methods and are now unveiling their high-tech nuclear weapons and missiles and have started threatening each other with nuclear weapons.
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2019-07-10 21:16
Will Bolton be ousted?
America's National Security Advisor's ambiguous destiny
TEHRAN - U.S. National Security Advisor still has a dilemma! John Bolton is aware of the possibility of his dismissal by Donald Trump. Many traditional Republicans have urged President Donald Trump to remove Bolton from power before the 2020 presidential election.
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2019-07-10 11:43
By Hamid R. Gholamzadeh
Trump’s way out of Iran issue lies out of bilateral issues
TEHRAN - Days, after Iranian forces downed an intruding American drone over the Iranian airspace, the stories of latest developments and stances of the two sides, are still making the headlines across the world. Third parties are inviting both Iran and the United States to show restraint and deescalate the tension. Whereas the first news released on the earliest hours on Thursday wreaked sort of havoc, increasing concerns over eruption of any war in an already volatile region, further details coming outcast a light on the events proving showing how the shooting has apparently prevented a disastrous war.
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2019-07-09 16:49
By Martin Love
Iran will have the world’s respect, and prevail
NORTH CAROLINA - An outsider with just some knowledge about Iran can be easily whipsawed by the horrible dilemma the U.S. has dumped on the country over the past 14 months. Yes, Iran must do all it can to defend itself, if it is attacked military, and meanwhile must do all it can to circumvent, with assistance, the draconian U.S. economic sanctions.
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2019-07-07 12:16
By Chang Hua Chinese ambassador to Iran
Efforts to counter terrorism and extremism in Xinjiang
TEHRAN - Iran and China have a long history of friendly relations. Iranians are not unfamiliar with Xinjiang either, in 13th century, Saadi Shirazi, the celebrated Iranian poet, traveled to the city of Kashgar in Xinjiang and wrote a beautiful poem.
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2019-07-03 12:29
By Ruhollah Ghasemian
Why the Deal of the Century fails?
TEHRAN - These days, apart from the tensions between Iran and United States, another event in south west Asia has attracted the attention of the countries’ officials, nations, and the media from all over the world.
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2019-07-01 11:59
By Abdullahi Junaidu
No tolerance for inhuman act against Sheikh Zakzaky
The merciless attacks by the Nigerian military on Nigeria's Islamic Movement in December 2015 has left an unhealed wound on the Nigerian society.
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2019-06-30 11:02
By Martin Love
Cry not for hapless Trump: He created the current mess
NORTH CAROLINA - No one can legitimately feel sorry for Donald Trump. For 14 months he’s been in way over his head in geopolitics, and that primarily about Iran, but with the various sanctions and threats cast upon every continent like confetti at a wedding everyone knows eventually is going fail and wind up in divorce court, Trump looks the clown to most all the world.
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2019-06-29 13:32
By Ramin Hossein Abadian
Saudi critical military positions targeted by Yemen
TEHRAN - On Wednesday morning, it was reported that Yemen’s military and national groups launched an extensive attack on Abha Airport, in southwest of Saudi Arabia.
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2019-06-25 20:55
By Farhad Daneshvar
U.S. sanctions on Iran kill off faint hopes of diplomatic solution
The latest U.S. sanctions on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the announcement on plans to sanction Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif have apparently been interpreted as President Donald Trump’s bad will by many in Iran.
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2019-06-24 14:02
By Martin Love
Trump has a moment of sanity that begs for continuance
NORTH CAROLINA - “Cocked and loaded” Donald Trump claimed the U.S. military was, just before, as he alleges, he decided not to attack Iran last week because the lives of an estimated “150 Iranians” were too heavy a cost for the downing of an unmanned drone that was brought down in Iran’s territorial waters while on a spy mission. What is one supposed to think? That Trump suddenly has a heart? That he has a brain? Well, maybe a bit of the latter for a moment. It is, in any case, not hard to speculate about what happened:
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2019-06-23 10:53
By Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council
Why Leader has given different responses to different U.S. presidents?
TEHRAN - A few years ago, when Barack Obama, former President of U.S. sent a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Leader told the Iranian officials that he will answer the letter. However, in his recent meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Ayatollah Khamenei said Trump does not “deserve” a response.
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2019-06-22 12:08
By Hanif Ghaffari
The necessity of “effective reaction” against U.S. hybrid war
TEHRAN - The recent trip of Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council to Russia was of crucial importance, especially because he talked about “hybrid threats” posed by United States to Iran and other world countries.
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2019-06-20 01:51
By Hanif Ghaffari
Florida polls leave Trump in massive shock
TEHRAN - It seems that these days even mentioning the names of organizations and agencies like Quinnipiac University, New York Times, Washington Post and recently even Fox news will traumatize Donald Trump, the American president.
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2019-06-19 12:05
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Pompeo’s plot: U.S. stages Gulf of Tonkin revival in Gulf of Oman
“It is the assessment of the United States government that Iran is responsible for the attacks that occurred in the Gulf of Oman today.” —U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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2019-06-19 11:47
By Martin Love
Iran is wisest not to damage burgeoning favorable opinion
NORTH CAROLINA - Has the current American government become so sanguine as to assume the American people believe dubious charges that Iran attacked ships near the Straits of Hormuz? Well, maybe it has, and the American people have become or remain that blind or ignorant to believe what the Trump gang tells them.
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2019-06-15 10:33
By Hanif Ghaffari
Why should Europe get away from the White House?
Although less than a month has passed since the European Parliamentary elections, the traditional European parties are still in shock because of the failure of the election. The failure of the traditional European parties in three countries, Britain, Germany and France, shows that European authorities will have a difficult path to overcome social, political, economic and security crises.
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2019-06-14 13:40
By Martin Love
Nothing is so dangerous as a wounded beast backed into a corner by itself…
NORTH CAROLINA - Trump’s foreign policy slant in the past year has gone so far off the rails touting the demands of right-wing Zionists and their supporters both in Israel and the U.S. that the U.S. is rarely seen as anything but a dangerous, rogue element across the world stirring up enmity and harm.
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2019-06-12 11:13
By Chris Cook
A Low Carbon Enlightenment
In the first of two articles on energy strategy (Tehran Times 10th June 2019) I observed how the US implemented a physical energy strategy of Energy Dominance in the 18 months to 1st January 2019. The strategic US aim is to control global oil and gas markets by exporting almost unlimited Molecules of US Freedom of shale oil and associated natural gas.
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2019-06-11 11:44
By Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi
Post-JCPOA talks and the Deal of Century: Two sides of the same coin
TEHRAN - One year ago, U.S. abandoned its nuclear deal with Iran and imposed a wide range of sanctions on Iran. Furthermore, over the last year, U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Economic War Room, created by Donald Trump’s administration, adopted a series of strategies to impede Iran from exporting oil and transferring foreign exchange to other countries.
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2019-06-08 23:50
By Payman Yazdani
The odds of success for Japanese PM's visit to Iran
TEHRAN – U.S. President’s recent retreat from his previous rhetoric stances towards Iran should not be misinterpreted as the White House’s retreat from its policy of ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran. In line with its maximum pressure on Iran policy, on Friday the United States imposed new sanctions on Iran that target the country's petrochemical industry, including its largest petrochemical holding group, the Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (PGPIC).
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2019-06-02 10:55
By Yusuf Abdullah
The International Quds Day
NIGERIA - In the name of Allah who states "Glory be to Him Who made His servant go on a night from the Sacred Mosque to the remote mosque of which We have blessed the precincts, so that We may show to him some of our signs; surely He is the Hearing, the Seeing" Q17:1
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2019-06-01 11:51
By Najeeb Maigatari
Understanding the Israeli occupation of Palestine
NIGERIA/ JIGAWA - The idea of nation and nationalism came of age during the early nineteenth century and the trend started with the establishment of a modern state in Western Europe. Until then, the predominant form of political organization in the world was ‘premodern’ in nature, formally the empire state. It was the European aspiration to colonize and dominate most of the countries, in part which it actually did; that awakened the people to the idea of depending their nations (nationalism).
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2019-05-29 12:59
By Martin Love
Iran’s potentials despite economic sanctions must be realized eventually
NORTH CAROLINA - From afar one can’t help thinking about how lucky Iran really is in many respects. I mean this sincerely.
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2019-05-28 15:18
By Martin Love
There are good reasons why Iran won’t fold to U.S. extremism
TEHRAN - President Donald Trump claims the vast Military Industrial Complex, otherwise known as the MIC, which has become everything Eisenhower in 1960 warned against, is somehow “pressuring” him in to war on Iran.
