By Omid Asadi 

Controversial conflict between two presidents!

TEHRAN - Former President Barack Obama plans to play a bold role in confronting Trump in the presidential election of 2020. Over the past months, Obama has been trying to prevent the Republicans from re-emerging, especially during the mid-term elections in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Obama is also now struggling to play a tense role in the fight against Trump. Donald Trump, in turn, tries to point to Obama's role in this equation. Anyway, as we approach the time of the 2020 presidential election, the current president's and former US president's conflict will become more serious.

Virginia senator: Trump’s withdrawal from JCPOA was idiotic

Virginia Senator, Timothy Kaine, on Saturday described Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), as a foolish act resulting from Trump's jealousy towards his predecessor Barack Obama.

Powerful Iran resists pressure: general

TEHRAN - Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military aide to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said on Wednesday that Iran is a powerful country in various areas which will resist all kinds of pressure.

By Javad Heirannia

Most Middle East dictators owe their power to Western patrons: Jahanpour

TEHRAN - Professor Farhang Jahanpour, part-time tutor on Middle Eastern affairs in the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, and a member of Kellogg College says that current Middle Eastern leaders who serve Western interests, while lacking legitimacy in the eyes of their own people. However, once they are not needed any more or act against Western interests they will be toppled.

By Hanif Ghaffari

From Obama to Al Gore: The Democrats are Taking Stance against Trump

TEHRAN - Overcoming the current president of the United States has turned to the main goal of the Democrats in the United States. American Democrats who have been isolated in the last two years, and lost the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and many governorates, are now planning to win the Congress elections. On the other hand, the public dissatisfaction raised over the performance of the U.S. President has given hope to the Democrats for winning the midterm elections.

By Hanif Ghaffari

Trump's political fate is ambiguous

TEHRAN - As much as we approach Congressional elections in the United States, Donald Trump's concerns are increasing. These concerns are aggravated by the fact that U.S.-based polls do not benefit Democrats. Trump recently warned of Democrats' victory in the mid-term elections in the U.S. Congress.

Iran started talks with U.S. after Obama accepted Iran’s right to uranium enrichment: Amir Abdollahian

TEHRAN - Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy advisor to the parliament speaker, has said Iran began talks with the United States in 2011 after then U.S. President Barack Obama accepted Iran’s right to enrich uranium and through a mediation by Oman.

By Hanif Ghafari

American Democrats and JCPOA

As we come closer to November and the time for the congress elections in the United States, the competitions between Democrats and Republicans get sharper over major and critical issues affecting the domestic and foreign policies of the U.S. In recent days, we have witnessed the American Democrats' collective and coordinated attacks on the White House and the President of the country.

By Eric Zuesse

Why Trump cancelled Iran Deal

The following is entirely from open online sources that I have been finding to be trustworthy on these matters in the past. These sources will be linked-to here; none of this information is secret, even though some details in my resulting analysis of it will be entirely new.

By Hanif Ghaffari

A Contemplation on Obama's Campaign against Trump

Recently, the name of former U.S. President, Barack Obama, is repeatedly heard in American political circles. While guiding and managing the Democrat's electoral campaign in the upcoming congress election, Obama intends to prepare the ground for Trump's defeat in the presidential elections of 2020.

By Hanif Ghaffari

The true face of American Democrats

Donald Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran and the re-enforcement of U.S. secondary sanctions against our country have raised the opposition of the Democratic politicians and members of the U.S. Senate.

By Hossein Yari

Obama versus Trump

TEHRAN - Barack Obama, who has ended his presidency with pride and success with the completion of plans such as Iran's nuclear deal, has once again attracted the attentions of the political and social circles inside and outside the U.S. recently. Trump's attempts in destroying whatever that was signed or confirmed during the Obama's presidency, has encouraged Democrats, and most of all, Obama in trying to pull Trump down.

By Abdulhamid Bayati

Obama's uprising to scramble Trump

Barack Obama ended his presidency with pride and successes such as reaching an agreement with Iran over the nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA. Leaving the arena to Trump, the ex-U.S. president has recently made headlines again.

By staff and agency

Tom Donilon: Exiting Iran deal is ‘worst mistake’ since Iraq War

Tom Donilon, a former Obama national security adviser, has said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy move in pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal as the “worst mistake” since the war in Iraq.

By Hossein Yari

Role of American Democrats in breaching JCPOA

TEHRAN - During the United States presidential competitions in 2016, Donald Trump threatened to rip up Iran's nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on his first day at the White House. Besides, over the months prior to the conclusion of the nuclear deal, many Republicans had emphasized that the next president of the United States (after Obama) could break the nuclear deal with a "turn of the pen".

By Ajmal Sohail

Afghanistan from Obama to Trump

It is although conspicuous, (that) there is no crystal clear difference between, the Obama and Trump strategies in Afghanistan. The strategies based on, to dismantle the momentum of the Al-Qaida and its affiliates and to attain the strategic interests of the America worldwide. What differ, are the approaches of Obama and Trump in relation to Afghanistan. Thus, it makes sense to briefly touch the issues, pertaining both Obama and Trump approaches for Afghanistan.

Barack Obama: The JCPOA is working

Barack Obama, the former U.S. president, publishes an article on his personal facebook page criticizing Donald Trump for withdrawing from the JCPOA. The full text is given below.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

The only way of Trump in Syria

TEHRAN - About five years ago, when former U.S. President "Barack Obama" spoke of a military strike in Syria, "Zbigniew Brzezinski", the former U.S. national security adviser and one of the country's main foreign policy strategists, objected to the call of the White House. He noted that the United States lacks a proper strategy towards the Middle East and Syria. Military action should, if it is inevitable, take place within a more developed strategy.

The gang of criminals

TEHRAN- This is a special report by the Tehran Times of the 58 wars launched by the 20 U.S. presidents since 1900. Since World War II, the U.S. has killed an estimated 23 million people worldwide.

By Hanif Ghaffari

Why did Trump insult Africans?

TEHRAN - The President of the United States ridiculed African-American immigrants in his vicious statements, insulting them in the worst way possible.

U.S. gives Israel go-ahead to kill General Soleimani: report

TEHRAN – The U.S. has given Israel the green light to assassinate General Qassem Soleimani, who commands the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Monday. 

By staff and agency

Iran calls U.S. complicit in Yemen calamity

Iran’s permanent mission to the UN has said since Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the Trump administration’s help in its war on Yemen, Washington is a complicit in the sufferings of the Yemeni people.

By staff and agency

Obama administration is mobilizing to defend nuclear deal

Former U.S. administration is mobilizing to defend the 2015 nuclear deal as President Donald Trump threatens to blow up the agreement.

By Jake Novak

Republicans and Democrats are both finished

Stick a fork in the Democrats and Republicans. Wednesday night's latest round of deal making between President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders is the latest evidence that the major political parties have lost all semblance of real power.

By Peter Popham

The only good thing Aung San Suu Kyi can do now is resign

The Nobel Peace Prize committee has in the past made some odd decisions. Henry Kissinger was its most glaring error.

By Hank Johnson

President Trump is giving police forces weapons of war. This is dangerous

The president has signed an executive order that will reopen the floodgates of military-grade weaponry entering American streets

By Klaus Brinkbäumer

The true face of Donald Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump is a racist and a hate preacher. It's time to stop trivializing the immense damage he is causing.