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2025-12-19 19:08
Machado’s Nobel win facilitates war crimes and plunder, Julian Assange argues
The Swedish government violated its own laws by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado, according to an explosive legal brief filed by Julian Assange.
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2025-12-16 18:57
Francesca Albanese nominated for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Gaza doctors
On Tuesday, a member of the European Parliament (MEP), Matjaz Nemec, publicly presented the nomination of UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, and Gaza-based doctors for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, following its official submission to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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2025/10/22
By Habib Ahmadzadeh
The ironic enigma of the Nobel Peace Prize
TEHRAN – In the Eastern lands where I live and teach as a university professor, there is no doubt that Gandhi, Mandela, and their peers stand as emblems of peace — figures I hold up to my students and my children as exemplars to learn from.
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2025/10/13
By Minoo Khaleghi
The Nobel Peace Prize has lost its meaning
Jurist and researcher in international relations
TEHRAN - The Nobel Prize, established under the will of Alfred Nobel in 1901, was meant to be awarded annually to “the person or organization that has done the most or the best work for the benefit of humanity” in relation to peace. Yet from the very beginning, the interpretation of its criteria has rested in the hands of the Norwegian Committee, and its decisions — especially in politically sensitive cases — have repeatedly stirred controversy.
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2025-10-11 21:38
Nobel Peace Prize 2025: A fusion of dynamite’s memory, fresh genocide, and coup dream
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
TEHRAN – For years, many have argued that the Nobel Peace Prize has become a tool of Western states, used to promote opposition figures capable of replacing governments at odds with the West.
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2025-10-10 21:08
By Garsha Vazirian
Bloodied hands, misplaced laurels: Why neither Trump nor Machado deserves praise
Sponsoring war, sanctions, and regime change is not a résumé for peace
TEHRAN – In a move that pleased Washington’s propaganda machinery, the Norwegian Nobel Committee chose Venezuelan opponent María Corina Machado over a president who spent months begging for a medal.
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2025-07-08 21:49
War criminal Netanyahu can’t nominate Trump for Nobel Peace prize: Zarif
TEHRAN – Iran’s former foreign minister has said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza cannot nominate U.S. President Donald Trump for Nobel Peace prize.
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2025/02/15
By Habib Ahmadzadeh
Mr. Trump, earn the Nobel Prize for a genuine step
TEHRAN – The ever-humorous President of the United States has expressed a fascinating ambition: to win the Nobel Peace Prize.