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2026-03-17 22:45
By Xavier Villar
Iran and the limits of Western fantasy
MADRID - For nearly three weeks, the United States and Israel have acted on a set of assumptions about Iran that were as rigid as they were detached from reality. Their campaign sought not merely to degrade capabilities but to reshape the political order. Senior leaders were targeted. Symbols of state authority were assaulted. Diplomatic openings were exploited to create the impression of leverage. Everything suggested a strategy designed to produce systemic transformation.
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2026-03-15 21:03
By Wesam Bahrani
From claimed victory to strategic shock: Hezbollah’s battlefield surprise
TEHRAN – Questions are mounting over whether the Zionist regime can achieve militarily what it failed to accomplish before the 2024 ceasefire.
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2026/03/14
By Xavier Villar
The scholar-soldier and the architecture of erasure: Knowledge production on Iran
MADRID – In the weeks since the United States and Israel launched their coordinated and illegal military campaign against Iran, a familiar cast of figures has reappeared across Western media platforms and policy institutes. They arrive as analysts, senior fellows, Iran specialists. Their titles confer the aura of scholarly detachment. They speak about escalation thresholds, deterrence calculations and government survival dynamics. Their tone is measured. Their language is technical. Their authority appears unquestionable.
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2026-03-12 20:06
By Xavier Villar
Whatever happened to ‘America First’?
How Israel’s war with Iran became America’s war
MADRID - “America First” was meant to be simple. Donald Trump promised restraint abroad and clarity at home. The United States would reduce unnecessary commitments, avoid “endless wars”, and focus on its own national interests. Yet the war with Iran raises an unavoidable question: if America truly comes first, why does US policy appear to follow the strategic priorities of others?
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2026-03-12 17:39
By Shahrokh Saei
Rabbit in the headlights: Trump resorts to manufactured face-saving exit from Iran war
Tehran — Barely two weeks after launching a joint military operation with Israel—ostensibly aimed at regime change—the United States now finds itself sinking into a deepening quagmire of war with Iran.
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2026-03-09 21:14
By Sheida Sabzehvari
The Leader they tried to kill is still here
TEHRAN – Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei long regarded security as the most valuable asset a nation could possess. When he became Iran’s Leader in 1989, the country was emerging from one of the most devastating periods in its modern history.
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2026-03-05 23:45
US-Israeli war on Iran backfires and reinforces national unity
TEHRAN - Like the 12-day war against Iran last June, the joint U.S.-Israel war against Iran has strengthened unity among the Iranians.
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2026-03-05 23:33
The Iran Ayatollah Khamenei told Trump about — and Trump ignored
TEHRAN – “There is no nation like the Iranian nation,” Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said in 1989, only a few months after he was elected as Iran’s Leader. “Iran stands with power, selfconfidence, and determination against any power that seeks to dominate it,” he added.
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2026-03-05 23:02
Netanyahu admits Israel’s goal is the ethnic cleansing of Iranians
TEHRAN - While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the Iranian people in English-language video messages that his goal in bombing their homes, hospitals, and schools is to bring them “freedom,” when speaking in Hebrew to Israeli audiences he openly admits that the objective is the elimination of the Iranian nation.
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2026-03-05 15:16
By Ranjan Solomon
Iran pounds Israel, US seeks to save face
Iran holds the military edge
GOA, India - Trump and Netanyahu must have dreamed wild dreams of an across-the-board victory, almost-instant victory after launching the war against Iran. Alas, the war surges, and Israel is under attack with citizens pleading for a stoppage. Fighter jets in U.S. bases in Persian Gulf states have fled in fear.
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2026-03-04 22:19
By Abbas Akhoundi
Israel–US war on Iran and position of Persian Gulf states
TEHRAN- At dawn on Saturday, February 28, 2026, Israel and the United States officially and jointly attacked Iran and, at the very outset, assassinated the Leader of the Islamic Republic. This occurred while negotiations between Iran and the United States were ongoing.
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2026-03-02 23:02
Netanyahu’s office, Israel’s Air Force Command hit by Kheibar missiles
TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on Monday that its forces successfully conducted retaliatory strikes against key Israeli government and military installations using Kheibar missiles.
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2026-02-28 19:39
By Xavier Villar
Trump’s justification and the logic of war
How language shapes action against Iran
MADRID – The US–Israeli strikes on Iranian territory on 28 February cannot be read as isolated tactical actions. They represent a structural intervention in the regional balance of power and, from Tehran’s perspective, an existential signal.
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2026-02-25 16:32
By Wesam Bahrani
How is Israel confronting global isolation?
TEHRAN – Despite deep internal political divisions, there is broad agreement within the Israeli regime on one issue: it is facing unprecedented global hostility.
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2026-02-22 20:26
By Wesam Bahrani
Israeli leadership: The cycle of corruption that drives aggression
TEHRAN – Power under pressure often reveals its survival instincts. In the Israeli regime’s case, political crisis and regional violence have become increasingly intertwined.
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2026-02-18 18:16
By Wesam Bahrani
Will Netanyahu resume genocidal war on Gaza?
TEHRAN – The Gaza Strip does not appear to be on the brink of a full-scale genocidal war anytime soon.
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2026-02-17 21:04
Indonesia’s role in the Gaza Board of Peace lacks strategic weight: Philippine scholar
Julkipli Wadi says the board is a political masquerade that shields Israeli regional aggression
TEHRAN- Amid growing controversy surrounding Washington’s so-called Gaza “peace plan” and the proposed Board of Peace, questions persist over its real objectives and the role assigned to non-Western actors, including Indonesia. In this interview, Tehran Times speaks with Julkipli Wadi, dean of the Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman, one of Southeast Asia’s most respected Islamic scholars.
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2026-02-14 21:58
By Ibrahim Majed
Netanyahu in Washington: The invisible architecture of US-Iran policy
BEIRUT – When Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington, the choreography is familiar: handshakes in the Oval Office, invocations of an “unbreakable alliance,” carefully staged symbolism.
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2026-02-13 19:42
By Wesam Bahrani
The fate of the Palestinian technocratic committee
TEHRAN – Despite being announced several weeks ago, the Palestinian National Committee established to manage the Gaza Strip has yet to begin operating in the enclave.
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2026-02-11 19:53
Netanyahu arrives in Washington to press Trump as Iran–US talks resume
TEHRAN – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Washington after moving up his trip, a step widely seen as an attempt to obstruct renewed diplomatic engagement between Iran and the United States.
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2026-02-08 22:05
Claudius returns to poison the deal
As diplomatic talks begin in Muscat, Netanyahu rushes to Washington to ensure peace with Iran never materializes
TEHRAN – Shakespeare’s Hamlet shows King Claudius as the main cause of Hamlet’s downfall. Claudius begins by secretly murdering Hamlet’s father and taking the throne, then hides his crime behind the image of a calm and caring king.
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2026/02/08
By staff writer
The boomerang of division: Israel's fractured leadership and Gaza's unbroken will
TEHRAN – The Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 exposed serious failures in Israel’s security system and laid bare deep divisions within the Israeli political and military leadership.
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2026/02/07
By staff writer
The Epstein scandal: Netanyahu-Barak feud exposes Israel’s murky elite ties
TEHRAN – The recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on former premier Ehud Barak’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein highlight not only a personal and political rift but also illustrate the complex and sometimes murky connections between prominent Israeli figures and the disgraced financier.
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2026-02-06 20:23
‘Criminal Trump and Netanyahu seeking to drag Iran into chaos,’ says sociologist
TEHRAN - A senior sociologist and political analyst says U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seek to foment turmoil in Iran.
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2026-01-30 20:43
U.S. seeks an Iran that is subservient, says Chinese expert
Hongda Fan warns U.S. and Israeli interference could reshape regional alliances and intensify security rivalries
TEHRAN-Amid renewed unrest in Iran and escalating rhetoric from Washington and Tel Aviv, questions are mounting over whether Western claims of supporting civil liberties mask deeper geopolitical objectives. To explore these dynamics, Tehran Times spoke with Professor Hongda Fan, Professor and director of the China-Middle East Center at Shaoxing University, China.
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2026-01-28 18:59
Hamas official rejects foreign diktats on Palestinian arms
A senior Hamas political bureau member sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of obstructing the transition to the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement. The remarks came after Netanyahu reiterated that Israel would not permit Gaza’s reconstruction unless armed groups in the Strip disarm, and insisted that Israeli security control would continue in both Gaza and the West Bank.
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2026-01-27 19:32
Open Israeli role in Iran unrest marks new escalation: Canadian historian
Samir Saul says Mossad activity is increasingly visible following the June 2025 failure
TEHRAN — In an interview with the Tehran Times, Canadian historian and political economist Samir Saul offers a critical assessment of U.S. and Israeli involvement in the protests that unfolded in Iran in January, with a particular attention to U.S. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric.
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2026-01-26 19:34
Ran Gvili’s remains and the myth of victory: How Netanyahu rebrands failure as triumph
TEHRAN — The retrieval of the remains of Ran Gvili, the last Israeli captive in the Gaza Strip, has been framed by Prime Minister Benjamin as an "extraordinary achievement," but this rhetoric serves only to mask a deeper reality of military and political failure.
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2026-01-24 19:20
Trump’s ‘support for Iranians’ masks economic warfare and narrative manipulation: Senior analyst
Elija J. Magnier argues US strategy weaponizes dissent while sanctions intensify civilian hardship
TEHRAN- In an interview with the Tehran Times, veteran war correspondent and geopolitical analyst Elijah J. Magnier delivers a rigorous and unflinching analysis of U.S. and Israeli pressure tactics against Iran, situating them within a long-standing architecture of coercion, narrative warfare, and regional destabilisation.
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2026-01-21 19:57
By staff writer
Fox in the henhouse: Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ lets Bibi off the leash
TEHRAN — The decision to include Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a so-called U.S.-led “Board of Peace” for Gaza highlights the deep incoherence of Washington’s approach to Israel’s war against the enclave and its aftermath.