Illusion of victory: Trump threatens Iran after Netanyahu meeting as empty US arsenal exposes limits

TEHRAN - US President Donald Trump is attempting to project a fabricated sense of victory over Iran in the wake of his high-stakes talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington. The White House meeting on Tuesday marked the first face-to-face sit-down between Trump and Netanyahu since the United States and Israel jointly launched a full-scale war against Iran on February 28. The meeting came at a critical juncture, as both the American president and the Israeli premier face escalating domestic outrage and political fallout stemming from the protracted conflict.

Israel has spent five decades pushing US and Iran toward direct war: ex-FM

TEHRAN – Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says successive Israeli governments have spent the past five decades trying to push the United States and Iran into direct military conflict.

By Garsha Vazirian

The unholy alliance of Israel and Ukraine anchoring the new imperial order

TEHRAN — The 23-year-old Iranian sailor Nima Moradi was martyred because the Kyiv regime’s military decided a civilian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea was a legitimate kill. That strike on the late July night was a cold-blooded escalation dragging a rather quiet sea straight into the crosshairs of foreign proxy warfare.

Sadiq Khan says if Israeli PM visits London he would lobby govt to enforce ICC arrest warrant

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has said that Benjamin Netanyahu is the perpetrator of genocide in Gaza, and that he would lobby the UK government to arrest the Israeli premier if he ever visited.

By Wesam Bahrani

Netanyahu turns his deterrence dilemma into a nuclear gamble

TEHRAN – Benjamin Netanyahu’s use of Dimona as a platform to threaten Iran exposes the failure of decisive victory and the erosion of Zionist deterrence.

By Fardin Molaei

Spain's World Cup glory denies Trump and Bibi their dream finale

TEHRAN – The curtain fell on the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States with an ending that few in Washington had hoped to witness. Instead of Argentina lifting the trophy at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, Spain emerged victorious after defeating the defending champions 1-0 in extra time, turning what many expected to be a political celebration into a night of disappointment for President Donald Trump and his closest international allies.

By Wesam Bahrani

Bloodthirsty Netanyahu scrambling to save political career

TEHRAN – The chances of Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, remaining in power do not appear promising.

By Wesam Bahrani 

Is Netanyahu headed for war as Israeli elections approach?

TEHRAN – With Israel’s elections approaching, will Netanyahu’s government attempt to escape its strategic predicament by pushing forward and returning to an intense war? Or will it return to politics, seek compromises, and cooperate with more realistic initiatives?

By Garsha Vazirian

Israel expands its borderless empire of election theft

From NYC and Bogota to Paris and Luanda, Tel Aviv operates a malicious cyber machine designed to dismantle national sovereignty

TEHRAN — While Western capitals obsess over fabricated narratives of foreign interference, the most toxic threat to global democracy operates with absolute structural impunity directly out of Tel Aviv.

By Wesam Bahrani

Can the Israel–Lebanon agreement succeed where military victory failed?

TEHRAN – The U.S.-brokered agreement between Lebanon and Israel appears to be far more than a deal governing the occupation regime’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

By Wesam Bahrani

How the Lebanese government advances Israel’s interests!

TEHRAN – The signing of the Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Iran and the U.S. dealt a great blow to the Israeli regime’s expectations from the Lebanese-Israeli negotiations.

By Garsha Vazirian

Trump sees himself ‘most powerful man that the planet has ever known’

Regime Change by Haberman and Swan exposes a Washington where spectacle, sycophancy, and magical thinking have replaced governance

TEHRAN — The release of “Regime Change” by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in June offers a devastating autopsy of American power in the 21st century. The book exposes a political system corrupted by spectacle and magical thinking that operates as a lawless cesspool.

By Shahrokh Saei 

Netanyahu’s ‘hallucinations’: Israeli poll finds Iran clear winner of war 

TEHRAN – President Masoud Pezeshkian has exposed Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to derail the recent memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States, as the embattled Israeli prime minister seeks to cling to power by inflaming regional tensions.

By Wesam Bahrani

Why does Netanyahu fear a US-Iran agreement?

TEHRAN – In response to developments in U.S.-Iran negotiations, Netanyahu’s remarks express understanding of American interests in reaching an agreement, while still playing the victim card.

MoU reached. Peace? Not sure

10 questions and answers you need to know about the results and future of Iran–US talks

TEHRAN - Iran and the United States have agreed on a memorandum of understanding after Washington made further concessions following Israel’s attacks on Sunday in the Lebanese capital, which could have derailed diplomatic engagement between Tehran and Washington.

Israel renews strikes on Beirut with US green light

TEHRAN - Israel renewed deadly airstrikes in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, on Sunday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government attempts to gloss over its “strategic” defeat and “isolation” in the war on Iran.

Trump, Netanyahu hoisted by their own petard

TEHRAN – The strategic miscalculations and mounting setbacks of the United States and Israel in their war against Iran are coming into sharper focus, just as Tehran and Washington move closer than ever to finalizing a memorandum of understanding (MoU).

By Wesam Bahrani

Netanyahu “rejects” withdrawal from South Lebanon

TEHRAN – Netanyahu reportedly has no plans to withdraw occupation forces from southern Lebanon in the foreseeable future, as aggression against towns and villages across the region continues.

By Shahrokh Saei

‘The bill comes due’

Iran warns the US over naval blockade and Israeli war crimes in Lebanon

TEHRAN - Iran has issued a stern warning to the United States and Israel over violations of the ceasefire that paused their joint aggression against Iran. 

By Garsha Vazirian

The irreversible shattering of Israel’s diplomatic armor

TEHRAN — The profound diplomatic unraveling confronting Israel in mid-2026 is neither a passing reputational crisis nor a temporary political phase that will vanish once the guns fall silent.

Trump in Netanyahu’s Grip

For the US government, an “Israel First” policy takes priority over exiting the quagmire of war with Iran

TEHRAN - There seems to be no end in sight to President Donald Trump’s contradictory statements despite intensified efforts to bring a permanent end to the US–Israeli war on Iran, which initially began on February 28.

Disgusting remarks against Sumud activists

Ben Gvir tramples human dignity of philanthropists

TEHRAN — Israeli Transport Minister Miri Regev has boasted about the mistreatment of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla detained by Israel, saying that “prison is the place for terrorism supporters”.

Trump–Netanyahu persistent delusions

Iran warns that its armed forces will unveil “new surprises” amid renewed US-Israeli war rhetoric

TEHRAN - Iran has warned its adversaries of “new surprises” as the United States and Israel once again beat the drums of war despite their military failure in the recent conflict.

By Garsha Vazirian

When international law becomes a post-mortem archive

TEHRAN — A report published by Haaretz on May 17 suggests that the International Criminal Court is moving quietly toward new arrest warrants for senior Israeli figures, including Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, alongside military officials tied to the genocidal war on Gaza and the wider campaign of destruction across the region.

By Garsha Vazirian

The Israeli bad cop’s rebranding and the guilty scapegoat theater

Netanyahu’s vow to end U.S. subsidies is a strategic gaslight designed to hide a deeper fusion

TEHRAN — When Benjamin Netanyahu sat for his interview with CBS News, now essentially an Israeli propaganda vehicle following Ellison’s acquisition, he delivered a performance meticulously engineered for an audience increasingly exhausted by his cycle of endless warfare and political maneuvering.

By Wesam Bahrani

Netanyahu between war fallout and internal crises

TEHRAN – As war repercussions persist and multiple fronts remain open, the Israeli regime has effectively entered election mode.