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Today 16:29
Blair dropped from leading Trump’s Gaza board after regional objections
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been removed from consideration to lead U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed “board of peace” in Gaza, the Financial Times revealed, following objections raised by several Arab and Muslim states.
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Today 15:28
At least 12 killed as Cambodia-Thailand border clashes reignite despite Trump-brokered truce
Fighting between Cambodia and Thailand escalated along their contested border on Tuesday, according to Reuters, as the Southeast Asian neighbors both said they would not back down in defending their sovereignty.
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2025-12-07 20:10
By staff writer
Caribbean chessboard: U.S. move to check Russia and China
Is the U.S. effort to overthrow Maduro limited to Venezuela?
TEHRAN – When U.S. forces began striking vessels in the Caribbean in early September, Washington said it was fighting drug cartels. Yet almost 90 people have been killed, no narcotics have been shown as evidence, and the scale of deployment, including the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group, makes clear this is not a routine mission.
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2025-12-07 16:06
America, exhausted and broken
Deciphering the new U.S. National Security Strategy
TEHRAN – The second Trump administration has released a 33-page National Security Strategy document, unveiled under the “America First” banner and centered on redefining Washington’s role in the world.
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2025-12-06 22:18
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Scrambling to Sustain a Waning Hegemony
Decoding the 2025 US National Security Strategy
TEHRAN – The White House's periodic document outlining United States foreign policy and national security strategy was released by the Trump administration on Thursday. The 33-page document, which appears to draw heavily on Trump's "America First" policy, has raised alarms in nearly every region of the world—with the probable exception of Israel.
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2025/12/06
By Ranjan Solomon
Venezuela after the vote: democracy, deterrence, the geopolitics of oil
“Those who preach democracy to Venezuela spent twenty years undermining its right to breathe.”
GOA, India - Six months have passed since Venezuela concluded its national elections, yet Western capitals continue to behave as though the ballots were still being counted. Their critiques, statements, and carefully staged condemnations have not diminished; if anything, they have intensified.
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2025/12/05
By Lucia Hubinská
Is Japan sliding back toward militarism?
XIAMEN – Relations between China and Japan are undergoing their most serious shock in a decade. And yet, as recently as 2024—after the lifting of pandemic restrictions—it seemed the two countries were slowly moving toward improved relations. This trend was abruptly disrupted in recent weeks, when a series of diplomatic missteps gave way to open disputes.
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2025-12-03 20:23
By Garsha Vazirian
The empire’s orphan strikes back
A tragedy forged in CIA’s narco-empire has been weaponized for a technocratic police state
TEHRAN – Amid a bitter clash over Trump’s attempt to federalize the National Guard, Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly opened fire outside a D.C. recruitment center on November 26, killing one soldier and critically wounding another.
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2025-12-03 20:14
By M.A. Saki
Trump’s Venezuela policy could turn world into jungle, professor warns
“The international safeguards are crumbling”
TEHRAN – An American professor of international affairs warns that the world is sliding into a “veritable jungle” as U.S. President Donald Trump openly threatens to strike deep inside Venezuela, alleging the Latin American nation is engaged in narco-trafficking.
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2025-12-03 14:52
Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint
A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September, The Guardian reported.
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2025-12-02 22:09
By Mona Hojat Ansari
How the Iran-US mediator obsession sidelines what actually matters
The real barrier to diplomacy isn't that Tehran and Washington can't talk —it’s that Washington insists on dictating all terms
TEHRAN – Hopes for a renewed diplomatic breakthrough between Iran and the U.S. have lingered ever since their last round of talks was shattered in June by Israeli and American airstrikes—an unprecedented bombing campaign targeting Iranian nuclear, civilian, and military sites that killed approximately 1,100 people and raised serious questions about Washington’s choice to bomb a country it was negotiating with.
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2025-12-02 22:05
Araghchi says Iran was ‘very close’ to deal with US before June attacks
An ongoing American intransigence blamed for the failure
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran was very close to reaching an agreement with the United States during Omani-mediated talks held earlier this year, but Washington’s refusal to accept any of Iran’s many solutions torpedoed the process, and its subsequent attacks further eroded trust in the U.S. commitment to diplomacy.
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2025-12-02 19:14
By staff writer
Venezuelan voices vs. America’s cannons
TEHRAN – Venezuelans took to the streets in Caracas and other cities this week to protest escalating U.S. military pressure. The demonstrations follow the continued presence of the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in the Caribbean and thousands of U.S. troops in the region. The U.S. has also carried out more than 20 strikes on maritime targets in the Caribbean and Pacific since early September, killing over 80 people, actions that Caracas says go beyond anti-drug operations and threaten Venezuelan sovereignty.
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2025-12-02 19:04
Trump formally pardons former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández
President Donald Trump has formally pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, according to his attorney Renato Stabile and a White House official, CNN reported.
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2025/12/02
By Patricia Esami-Lubba
Trump’s Africa posture is less about human rights though more about power politics
ABUJA – When Donald Trump turns his attention to Africa, it is rarely for reasons African policymakers recognize as grounded in fact or consistent principle. His latest escalation of tensions with Nigeria and South Africa, framed as a moral crusade against human rights abuses, reflects a recurring pattern: selectively invoking the language of rights to justify punitive diplomacy that ultimately serves domestic politics more than international justice.
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2025-12-01 21:34
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Bully politics: The American style
Trump calls Maduro, tells him to step down and leave Venezuela or get attacked
TEHRAN – American commentators trying to make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump’s governing style say he is not mentally intact or that he has an unstable personality easily swayed by the last person he speaks to.
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2025/11/30
By Mahdi Zolfaghari
Economic storm ahead for U.S. Congress
TEHRAN - U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a new wave of negative economic polls, indicating that a significant portion of voters are dissatisfied with his administration’s handling of financial and livelihood issues. This growing dissatisfaction, reflected increasingly in public data, could directly impact his political standing, especially ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections.
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2025/11/30
By Ranjan Solomon
Europe’s war, Ukraine’s ruin, and the case for a new architecture of peace
GOA, India - The Western narrative insists that Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. This story, repeated endlessly by the Atlantic establishment, conveniently deletes the political timeline that made war inevitable.
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2025-11-30 18:59
By Shahrokh Saei
Law above the clouds: Caracas counters Washington’s illegal threats
TEHRAN – Venezuela has forcefully rejected recent threats from President Donald Trump to treat its skies as closed, arguing the United States has no legal authority to impose restrictions on another nation’s airspace. Officials in Caracas insist that the move is not only illegitimate but also a direct challenge to the principles of international law.
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2025-11-29 20:24
Alleged U.S. interference overshadows Honduras presidential election
As Hondurans prepare for Sunday’s presidential election, officials and analysts are condemning what they describe as Washington’s interference threatening the country’s sovereign democratic process.
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2025-11-29 20:22
Trump's airspace closure directive escalates crisis around Venezuela
U.S. President Donald Trump declared the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela "closed in its entirety," a blunt Saturday Truth Social directive to "Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers" that offered no legal basis or operational details.
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2025-11-29 14:45
Execution of survivors under Hegseth’s ‘kill everybody’ order labeled a war crime
U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind as Donald Trump’s administration launched the first of more than a dozen attacks on alleged drug-running boats that have killed more than 80 people over the last three months, according to The Independent.
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2025-11-28 22:19
Trump’s ‘permanent pause’ on third-world migration branded as veiled racism
U.S. President Donald Trump late Thursday announced an indefinite “permanent pause” on all immigration from what he called “Third World Countries,” a sweeping and deliberately vague decree that critics condemned as a racist, legally shaky bid to exclude migrants from the Global South.
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2025-11-28 17:51
By Shahrokh Saei
Trump’s Venezuela war drums: Drug fight or oil grab?
TEHRAN – The latest statements from President Donald Trump mark one of the most serious escalations in the long confrontation between the United States and Venezuela.
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2025-11-26 21:23
By Sahar Dadjoo
Israel’s Beirut strike exposes collapse of international law, Lebanese analyst warns
Adnan Alameh says UN and global powers have failed to enforce the truce agreement, leaving Lebanon vulnerable to repeated raids
TEHRAN – The recent Israeli strike on Beirut nearly a year after the ceasefire with Hezbollah has raised urgent questions about the effectiveness of international law and the enforcement of UN resolutions in Lebanon. For Adnan Alameh, a Lebanese political analyst, the incident reflects not only Israel’s strategic ambitions but also the broader failure of the international community to restrain violations of sovereignty.
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2025-11-25 22:05
By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza strangled despite “truce deal”
TEHRAN – Despite Trump’s much?touted Gaza truce announced on October 10, Israel continues to restrict essential lifelines for Palestinians in Gaza. The occupying Israeli regime’s continued airstrikes, bombardment, and tightening blockade are deepening a humanitarian collapse across the Gaza Strip, where survival is becoming increasingly untenable despite the declared truce.
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2025-11-24 19:54
Xi warns Trump on Taiwan red line; U.S. president calls him 'great leader'
Chinese President Xi Jinping used a Monday evening phone call with Donald Trump to frame Taiwan’s reunification as an untouchable pillar of the post–World War II settlement, pointedly reminding the U.S. president that the two countries once fought “shoulder-to-shoulder” against Japanese militarism and should now jointly defend the war’s outcome.
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2025-11-22 20:25
“This G20 is not about the US”: Ramaphosa signals shift from American dominance
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a pointed message during Africa’s first G20 summit, declaring: “This G20 is not about the US. It’s about all the members.” His remark came as leaders adopted a declaration on climate change, renewable energy, and debt relief — despite U.S. opposition and boycott.
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2025-11-22 20:14
By Shahrokh Saei
How the West has thrown Ukraine under the bus
Trump’s 28-point plan pressures Zelenskyy to give up territory, shrink military, and abandon NATO hopes—or risk losing U.S. support
TEHRAN – Nearly 1,370 days into the Russia–Ukraine war, President Donald Trump’s 28-point peace plan has laid bare the contradictions of Western policy. For years, the United States and Europe encouraged Ukraine to confront Russia, promising NATO membership and protection. Now, as the war drags on, those same powers step back, leaving Ukraine to face the consequences of a fire lit by the West itself.
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2025-11-22 19:18
First Republican lawmaker to call Israel's Gaza assault genocide quits Congress amid MAGA rift
Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, an influential figure among the right and longtime ally of Donald Trump who recently had a dramatic falling out with the US president, has said she is quitting her seat in Congress, Al Jazeera reported Saturday.