Garsha Vazirian

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  • Palestine flags 2025-09-22 21:15

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Wave of Palestine recognition: A symbolic rupture wrapped in political interest

    TEHRAN – Paris formally recognized the State of Palestine on Monday, a move unveiled in the context of the Franco-Saudi summit on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, and immediately folded into a wave of declarations from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Portugal.

  • Protests in Jerusalem 2025-09-21 21:03

    By Garsha Vazirian

    As Gaza bleeds, protests reveal Israel's fractured leadership and moral decay

    TEHRAN – Once again, Israelis have taken to the streets in protest, driven by the military’s strategic failures in Gaza and the collapse of government policies.

  • Gaza City strike 2025-09-19 19:22

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Gaza offensive reaches ‘cataclysmic’ scale as US shields Israel at UN

    TEHRAN – Israeli forces have intensified their offensive on Gaza City, unleashing a combination of airstrikes, drone attacks, and ground assaults that have left neighborhoods in ruins.

  • Israeli military in Syria 2025-09-14 20:25

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Between occupation and brutality: Israeli advances and Syria’s brutal new order

    TEHRAN — Israel’s recent ground operation into southern Syria — reported under the codename “Green-White” and said to have advanced roughly 38 kilometers into Syrian territory, reaching within about 10 km of Damascus — represents the deepest Israeli penetration since the wars of the 1970s and a significant escalation in a campaign that has become systematic since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

  • Charlie Kirk 2025-09-12 20:35

    By Garsha Vazirian

    The widening gyre: Charlie Kirk's assassination and America's spiral into political violence

    TEHRAN – In the shattered aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, America stares into a mirror cracked by its own hand. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer,” William Butler Yeats intoned in “The Second Coming,” evoking a world where order dissolves into chaos.

  • Al-Quds 2025-09-08 20:15

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Al-Quds shooting leaves six dead, exposes Israel’s security vulnerabilities

    TEHRAN – At least six Israeli settlers were killed and 17 others injured on Monday after two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a bus at the Ramot settlement junction, north of occupied Jerusalem (al-Quds).

  • Trump strike 2025-09-06 20:21

    By Garsha Vazirian

    How Trump’s ‘drug war’ masks his drive for war against Venezuela

    TEHRAN – In the choppy seas of international intrigue, truth can sink faster than a targeted vessel. When the U.S. military destroyed a 12-meter “flipper” speedboat off Venezuela, killing all 11 aboard, President Trump hailed it as a strike against “a Venezuelan criminal organization tied to Maduro.” Scratch the surface, though, and it looks less like justice than premeditated aggression.

  • Newspapers blackout 2025-09-02 20:10

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Over 250 media outlets unite as Israel makes Gaza’s journalists its frontline targets

    TEHRAN – On September 1, more than 250 news outlets in over 70 countries staged a coordinated blackout—blank front pages, darkened homepages, and interrupted broadcasts—in an unprecedented act of solidarity.

  • Gaza City 2025-08-29 20:03

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Israel's chilling assault on Gaza City

    TEHRAN – The Israeli military on Friday declared Gaza City a “dangerous combat zone,” ending the so-called “tactical pauses” that had allowed limited food deliveries into the besieged north. The move has heightened fears of another mass displacement as Israel prepares what appears to be a major ground assault.

  • Ex Dutch FM Caspar Veldkamp 2025-08-25 19:55

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Six things to know about Dutch cabinet walkout over Israeli crimes in Gaza

    TEHRAN - In a dramatic political development exposing deep divisions within Europe over Israel's military actions in Gaza, the Netherlands' caretaker government has been thrown into crisis following the resignation of multiple ministers in protest at its failure to impose meaningful sanctions on Israel.

  • Martyred Funeral 2025-08-08 20:02

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Blood-inked pens

    The stories of four Iranian journalists killed by Israel

    TEHRAN – August 8 marks Journalist’s Day in Iran, a solemn tribute to those who spilled blood for truth. Rooted in the 1998 martyrdom of Mahmoud Saremi—an Iranian reporter killed by alongside eight Iranian diplomats in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan—this day now mourns a new generation of media martyrs.

  • Tucker Carlson 2025-06-07 20:25

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Tucker Carlson warns: Neoconservative push for Iran war risks ‘world war, US defeat’

    TEHRAN – Prominent conservative commentator Tucker Carlson has issued a stark warning against escalating tensions with Iran, describing a potential conflict as a catastrophic betrayal of President Donald Trump's core supporters and a reckless gamble with global stability.

  • Centrifuges 2025/05/03

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Iran’s Araghchi defends country’s right to ‘possess full nuclear fuel cycle’

    TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took to social media on Friday to reaffirm Tehran’s right to pursue a civilian nuclear program under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), directly countering recent U.S. demands for Iran to halt uranium enrichment.

  • Washington Post Article 2025/04/26

    By Garsha Vazirian

    The Myth of Iran’s ‘collapse’: How Western media misreads Tehran’s strategic resolve in Oman talks

    TEHRAN – In the last days of April, as Oman prepared to host the third round of indirect nuclear talks between Iran and the United States, the Washington Post published an article titled “Iranian Elite Grows Supportive of Nuclear Talks as Economic Fears Spike,” which disingenuously insists that Tehran entered the nuclear talks “because it faces the prospect of economic collapse.”

  • Witkoff 2025-04-19 22:16

    By Garsha Vazirian

    A house divided: U.S. discord strengthens Iran’s hand in nuclear negotiations

    TEHRAN – As Iranian and U.S. negotiators concluded the second round of indirect nuclear talks in Rome on Saturday, Washington’s credibility hangs in the balance.