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Yesterday 21:45
By Soheila Zarfam
Iran pursues US at UN after Trump admits he was 'in charge of' June war
TEHRAN – "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." That is the warning U.S. police give criminal suspects when they are arrested. Its repetition in American movies and TV has made the notion — that your words can be used against you — familiar to most citizens. Yet some in the U.S. seem to believe words lose their bite when spoken by someone in the position of power.
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Yesterday 20:43
By Shahab Sarmadi
U.S. proposal for Gaza: ‘Board of Peace’ or cover for occupation?
TEHRAN – President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza, presented by Washington as a blueprint for stability and reconstruction, has drawn significant criticism for functioning as political cover for Israel’s ongoing military campaign.
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Yesterday 20:20
By Batool Subeiti
Capitalist expansion and US intervention in Latin America
LONDON - The United States is going through a major economic crisis, which is why Trump talks about controlling places like Greenland or the Panama Canal, and makes threats of military action against the oil-rich Venezuela, and even talking about annexing Canada.
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Yesterday 19:59
By Garsha Vazirian
‘Knew about the girls:’ New emails shatter Trump's Epstein façade
TEHRAN – Just days after the U.S. government shutdown ended, the House Oversight Committee released roughly 20,000 pages of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that have reignited a scandal some thought closed.
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Yesterday 19:58
Poll: Americans oppose Trump's aggression against Venezuela
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published Friday found only 29% of Americans support using U.S. military force to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge — a striking public rebuke of an administration strategy that has already staged roughly 19–20 strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific and, by Reuters’ count, killed scores of people.
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Yesterday 16:25
BBC apologizes but rejects Trump’s demand for compensation over Jan. 6 documentary edit
The BBC has apologized to U.S. President Donald Trump for airing a documentary on its Panorama program that spliced together two separate lines from his Jan. 6, 2021, speech, but said it will not pay compensation or accept his claim of defamation.
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2025-11-12 22:23
Venezuelan Ambassador to Iran stated in an interview with Tehran Times:
8 million Venezuelans enrolled to defend homeland
If 87 percent of drug trafficking occurs via the Pacific, why did the U.S. deploy forces in the Caribbean?
TEHRAN – The Tehran Times exclusive interview with Venezuela’s ambassador to Iran, José Rafael Silva Aponte, comes at a fraught moment for Caracas and the wider region.
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2025-11-12 18:08
By Shahrokh Saei
Imperial ambitions at sea: U.S. military escalation against Venezuela
TEHRAN – The deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Caribbean has marked a dangerous escalation in U.S. military activity and sharply heightened tensions with Venezuela.
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2025-11-11 19:10
By Shahab Sarmadi
Sharaa–Trump summit: U.S.–Israeli interests at play
TEHRAN – Monday’s meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Syrian leader Ahmed alSharaa in Washington has been described as a milestone and historic. For the first time since Syria gained independence from France in 1946, a Syrian head of state was welcomed into the Oval Office with full honors.
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2025/11/10
By Mohammad Javad Habibi
Trump’s ASEAN outreach and Washington’s strategic drift from West Asia
TEHRAN - Donald Trump’s attendance at the 47th ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur marks a symbolic yet telling redirection of American foreign policy. After two decades of overreach and strategic exhaustion in West Asia, Washington appears to be searching for a new stage on which to project power. Southeast Asia dynamic, contested, and economically vital offers a setting where the U.S. can reassert visibility while avoiding the immense political and military costs that have accompanied its interventions in the Middle East.
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2025-11-09 20:52
Trump’s admission of war role was a ‘calculated deception,’ says Iran’s embassy in Tokyo
TEHRAN – The Iranian Embassy in Tokyo has strongly condemned the U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent remarks acknowledging his command role in Israel’s June aggression against Iran, describing them as a “self-incriminating admission” that exposes the diplomatic façade concealing a premeditated campaign of violence against the Islamic Republic.
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2025-11-09 20:28
By staff writer
War or peace: What Hegseth and Trump signal
TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a speech on Friday that left no ambiguity: the United States is not seeking to avoid war — it is actively preparing for a global confrontation. Speaking at the National War College, Hegseth compared today’s world to 1939, the year World War II began, and 1981, when Cold War tensions surged. These weren’t just historical references — they were warnings. And more than that, they were a roadmap.
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2025-11-08 20:35
Tehran seeks compensation as Trump admits he was ‘very much in charge’ of Israel’s raid on Iran
Iran cites Trump's ‘clear and irrefutable evidence’ as proof of US role in attacks
TEHRN – Iran has stated that a public "criminal confession" from U.S. President Donald Trump confirms Washington's direct role in Israel's aggression against the country in June, holding both parties fully responsible for civilian deaths, widespread destruction, and attacks on safeguarded nuclear sites.
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2025-11-08 20:26
By M.A. Saki
Kimball says Trump’s nuclear testing push could ‘blow apart NPT’
TEHRAN – Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Washington-based Arms Control Association (ACA), says if the United States conducts nuclear testing it will likely “blow apart the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty” or NPT.
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2025-11-07 21:57
Trump says he was 'very much in charge' of Iran war despite earlier denials
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump claimed responsibility for Israel's June aggression against Iran, walking back his prior denials of involvement and substantiating Iranian allegations that Washington had been complicit in the deadly war from its outset.
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2025-11-05 20:11
By Elaheh Tahmasebi
Why Venezuela’s fate matters to Iran
TEHRAN – Could a U.S. attack on Venezuela serve as a prelude to a future strike against Iran? This is one of the most frequently asked questions in Iranian circles today regarding the fate of Caracas and the Maduro government.
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2025-11-05 18:42
By Garsha Vazirian
Trump’s gilded cage and the sycophancy doctrine
A global playbook of flattery fraying statecraft’s spine with spectacles and shadows
TEHRAN – The spectacle has become the point. Fighter jets escort Air Force One. Prime ministers arrive with golf relics and gold-leaf baubles. Foreign leaders orchestrate airport pageants and shield Donald Trump from protesters — not to salute partnership but to flatter a temperament that prizes adulation above counsel.
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2025-11-05 18:08
By Shahrokh Saei
Mamdani’s win lays bare failure of U.S. capitalism
TEHRAN – Just a year ago, Zohran Mamdani was little known outside Queens, the New York City borough he represents. Now, at just 34 years old, he has made history as the new Mayor of New York City — the largest and most influential city in the United States.
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2025-11-04 19:04
By Shahrokh Saei
Imported victory: Milei’s win and the price Argentina paid
TEHRAN – Argentina’s October midterm elections handed President Javier Milei’s La Libertad Avanza party a sweeping victory. But this was not a triumph of domestic approval — it was a triumph of foreign leverage.
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2025-11-04 18:45
U.S. government shutdown poised to break record as federal paralysis deepens
The U.S. government shutdown tied the prior record on Tuesday and is on pace to become the longest in history on Wednesday at 36 days, a stark marker of national dysfunction and a presidency defined by confrontation over compromise.
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2025-11-02 20:48
By Habib Ahmadzadeh
Peace by force and Trump’s inverted world order
TEHRAN – Think about how, over the past fifty years, Western leaders—especially in Europe—have repeatedly shouted “democracy” and “no to violence.”
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2025-11-02 19:47
By Shahrokh Saei
Holy hostility: How Trump weaponizes religion to threaten Nigeria
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent threat to launch military strikes against Nigeria under the banner of protecting Christians is not a sudden outburst — it is part of a long-standing pattern.
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2025-11-02 19:37
By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza reels under renewed bombings
TEHRAN – The Israeli regime escalates Gaza strikes as blockade tightens, aid restricted, and casualties rise.
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2025-11-02 18:26
U.S. strike kills three in the Caribbean, no proof of drug activity
Three men were killed in a US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean, US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said, the BBC reported.
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2025-11-01 21:41
By Soheila Zarfam
War didn't halt enrichment; pressure won't either
Araghchi says a 'fair' deal possible if US scraps 'unacceptable' conditions
TEHRAN – In an interview with Qatari media, Iran's foreign minister reiterated what has essentially been the country’s position for decades: the United States cannot make Iran blink. Neither sanctions, nor threats, nor even wars – like the one Washington and Israel waged against Iran in June – will succeed. A win-win deal remains the only off-ramp from the escalating high tensions.
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2025-11-01 20:23
‘Power play on Venezuela’s coast is about hegemony, not drugs:’ Analyst
Venezuelan analyst Diego Sequera told Iran’s Mehr News Agency that Washington’s latest maneuvers in and around Venezuela are not truly about the drug trade.
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2025-11-01 19:31
By Shahrokh Saei
From Abe to Takaichi: A historic milestone, a familiar path
TEHRAN – Sanae Takaichi’s election as Japan’s first female prime minister on October 21 was a landmark moment in a country long dominated by male political leadership. But while her rise broke a gender barrier, her governance so far reflects continuity more than change. Takaichi is not a political outsider—she’s a veteran of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a protégé of the late Shinzo Abe, whose nationalist and conservative legacy continues to shape Japan’s direction.
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2025-11-01 18:29
Canada PM says Xi talks 'turning point', apologizes to Trump
Canadian premier Mark Carney on Saturday called his talks with China's leader Xi Jinping a "turning point" in restoring their battered ties.
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2025-11-01 18:26
By Sahar Dadjoo
Israel pounds Gaza, Lebanon to rewrite truce terms: Palestinian analyst
Hassan Lafi says Tel Aviv’s violations seek to shift the balance in its favor
TEHRAN- In the wake of Israel’s renewed attacks following the Gaza ceasefire, Palestinian writer and analyst Hassan Lafi examines the underlying political and strategic motivations driving Tel Aviv’s escalation.
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2025-10-31 20:04
U.S. readies attacks on Venezuelan bases, ports, and airstrips, reports say
New reporting in the Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald says the Trump administration “has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs,” and that Washington “has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela” — strikes that, the Herald wrote Friday, “could come at any moment.”