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2026-04-24 19:51
Dr. Sajjad Farokhipour
Trump and the trap of the ‘necessary evil’: How a 40-year trajectory was reversed
For nearly half a century, from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama, American presidents shared a common conviction: that their job was to manage Israel. They pressured, pleaded, and clashed with Jerusalem (al-Quds), but never surrendered the premise that America was the senior partner. George H.W. Bush was so infuriated by settlements that he banned a young Benjamin Netanyahu from the State Department.
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2026-04-18 21:19
By Wesam Bahrani
Lebanon ceasefire: A new impasse or a lifeline?
TEHRAN – The Zionist regime’s prime minister is not expected to easily surrender his plans and aspirations in Lebanon.
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2026-04-12 01:47
Israel assassinated Kamal Kharrazi to kill diplomacy, but Iranian society is dynamic
TEHRAN - The Israeli assassination of Kamal Kharrazi, chairperson of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, came as a blow to wisdom and diplomacy.
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2026-04-12 01:07
Ashish Prashar says Washington and Tel Aviv underestimated Iran’s preparedness
U.S.-Israeli pressure on Iran risks strategic failure: Political strategist
TEHRAN — Ashish Prashar, an award-winning political strategist and human rights advocate who has advised senior political figures in the United States and Europe, spoke with Tehran Times about the implications of the U.S.–Israeli attacks on Iran since February 28.
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2026-04-09 02:47
By Wesam Bahrani
Can Israel Gaza strategy work in Southern Lebanon?
TEHRAN - Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the Israeli regime supports the Iran-U.S. ceasefire, but it does not include Lebanon.
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2026-04-06 22:58
Former Israeli PM: Netanyahu’s Iran strategy driven by ‘wishful thinking’
TEHRAN - A former Israeli prime minister has sharply criticized Benjamin Netanyahu over the failure of his military strategy toward Iran.
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2026-04-06 00:06
Self-proclaimed friends of Iranians are ruining their life
TEHRAN – The Netanyahu regime and the Trump administration which have launched an illegal and unprovoked war on Iran since Feb. 28 are committing war crimes one after another and threatening to do more.
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2026-03-29 23:58
By Saleh Abidi Maleki
‘No blood for oil’: Iran war becomes central cry as 9 million rally against Trump across US
When U.S. President Donald Trump, together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, launched his war against Iran a month ago, he believed the airstrikes would need to last only a few days, according to Hebrew media reports.
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2026-03-28 23:01
Mikaeil, a symbol of U.S.-Israeli brutality
TEHRAN - “Glasses with a strap so they don’t get lost; a water bottle with a picture of a hedgehog; a third-grade student, undoubtedly raised with great love, waving goodbye to his mother as he leaves home, just before his short life is ended by a bombing campaign led by Trump and Netanyahu. This is a photo that breaks my heart every time I see it.”
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2026-03-27 23:22
Alleged rift between Netanyahu and Mossad chief over war on Iran
TEHRAN — Hebrew media reports say a serious dispute has broken out between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief David Barnea over the regime’s failing war against Iran.
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2026-03-26 22:05
By Matin Jamshidi
Netanyahu shaping Trump’s policy on Iran
TEHRAN - Under the leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, there is a growing perception that Israeli vicious goals are being prioritized over American interests.
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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.