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Today 20:04
By Garsha Vazirian
The same hostage economics playbook, from Havana to Tehran to Beirut
Washington uses civilian suffering as its primary foreign policy tool
TEHRAN — The August 2026 New York Times report operates as an unclassified confession of state terror. When Israel launched its barbaric campaign of aggression on Lebanon in March, the opening salvos bypassed command centers. Warplanes targeted civilian banks, local exchange shops, and neighborhood gas stations. The architects of this aggression admit their primary objective was “Hezbollah’s money,” functionally confessing to holding the daily survival of Lebanese families hostage.
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2026-07-05 22:21
Iranian, Cuban science ministers highlight boosting academic ties
TEHRAN – Minister of Science, Research, and Technology, Hossein Simaei-Sarraf, and Cuban Minister of Higher Education, Walter Baluja García, have underlined the need to expand academic and educational relations.
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2026-05-30 18:17
US may start a new war to distract from failure in Iran: Cuba’s envoy
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2026-05-23 20:37
Iran denounces decades-long US embargo on Cuba as a “crime against humanity”
TEHRAN- Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the United States over its continued sanctions, political pressure, and unlawful interference in Cuba’s internal affairs, accusing Washington of violating international law and committing acts amounting to a “crime against humanity.”
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2026-04-26 16:44
Tehran, Havana to foster ties on e-government
TEHRAN – The head of the Information Technology Organization of Iran, Mohammad-Mohsen Sadr, and the Cuban first deputy minister of communications, Ernesto Rodríguez Hernández, have discussed ways to enhance cooperation between the two countries in information and communication technology (ICT) sectors, particularly e-government.
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2026-02-17 18:59
By staff writer
U.S. power play and Cuba’s fight for sovereignty
TEHRAN – The latest wave of tensions between the United States and Cuba has unfolded under the weight of a rapidly intensifying oil blockade—an escalation that critics describe as a modern extension of Washington’s long-standing hemispheric dominance.
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2026-02-16 22:45
By Garsha Vazirian
The ‘Donroe Doctrine’ and the architecture of engineered darkness
Washington’s energy siege transforms Cuba into a laboratory of calculated humanitarian collapse
TEHRAN – In the obsidian silence of a Havana night, the only light comes from the cold, calculating eyes of Washington’s imperial architects.
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2026-01-23 18:43
By Silvina Pachelo
Studying medicine in Cuba: A Palestinian preparing to aid Gaza amid Israel’s assault on doctors
BUENOS AIRES — Muhammad Ali is 21 years old. He is Palestinian, from the West Bank, and studies medicine in Cuba thanks to a scholarship. His story does not begin at a university or in a classroom, but in a territory marked by war, scarcity, and loss. While many young people elsewhere can afford to ignore the harsh reality faced by Palestinians, for him —as for so many others— the horizon is defined by urgency: surviving, protecting one’s family, gaining access to water, medicine, and the most basic necessities.
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2026-01-18 19:57
International group condemns threats of force and interference in Iran
TEHRAN – The Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter has strongly condemned recent threats of force against Iran, characterizing foreign interference and the incitement of violence as flagrant violations of international law.
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2026-01-06 22:02
Tehran rallies Latin American allies after US ‘law of jungle’ act in Venezuela
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held separate phone calls with his counterparts from Brazil and Cuba, with the recent U.S. military aggression in Venezuela dominating the discussions.
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2026-01-05 14:00
At least 80 killed in U.S. strikes on Venezuela; Cuba reports 32 citizens among the dead
The New York Times reported that at least 80 people were killed in Venezuela following U.S. military strikes.
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2025-11-19 15:13
Tehran, Havana ink pharmaceutical MOU
TEHRAN – Iran and Cuba have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand international cooperation in the health sector and increase access to health products.
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2025-09-19 15:37
Iran, Cuba follow up on joint vaccine production
TEHRAN – Ali Jafarian, the senior advisor to the health minister, and Tania Margarita Cruz Hernandez, Cuba’s Acting Minister of Public Health, have discussed ways to expand medical and scientific ties between the two countries, taking further actions on boosting cooperation in vaccine production and the biotechnology sector.