By Garsha Vazirian

The orange boy who cried peace was always the wolf

Iran will not buy another American mirage after two wars launched under the cover of 'talks'

TEHRAN — To understand why Iran views current American overtures with such visceral disdain, one must look past the sanitized briefings and leaks in Washington and toward the actual smoke and sirens that have defined life in Tehran over the last year.

By Saleh Abidi Maleki

Iran's conditions after two betrayed negotiations

TEHRAN – Donald Trump is talking to himself. That’s how Iranian officials view the U.S. president’s claims of “successful” and “productive” negotiations with Tehran. According to Iranians, the president has started a war he cannot finish and is desperate to end it. But rather than pursuing diplomacy, his recent overtures are merely ploys to keep oil prices from rising further while he prepares to escalate the conflict.

Trump’s 15-point plan: Coercion disguised as diplomacy

TEHRAN - In the fourth week of the U.S.–Israel war on Iran, Trump’s 15-point ceasefire proposal has emerged not as a genuine peace initiative but as a coercive package designed to force Iran into strategic submission — a plan that Tehran has swiftly and decisively rejected as unacceptable. From Iran’s perspective, the proposal is not a negotiation framework but an attempt to dictate terms under the shadow of ongoing military aggression.

Are Witkoff and Kushner U.S. envoys — or Israel’s agents in Washington?

TEHRAN - Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have become two of the most controversial figures in the US–Israel war against Iran, and nearly a month into the conflict their role is under sharper scrutiny than ever. 

By Xavier Villar

Iran and the governance of maritime circulation

MADRID – Four weeks into the U.S and Israeli offensive against Iran, the centre of gravity has shifted from contested airspace to a narrow maritime corridor less than 30 kilometres wide. The Strait of Hormuz, long treated by Western planners as an artery requiring permanent openness, remains physically navigable. It has not been closed. What has changed is the condition under which passage occurs.

U.S. aircraft losses expose vulnerabilities to Iran’s expanding offensive capabilities

TEHRAN – The aviation losses sustained by U.S. forces since February 28 have become one of the clearest indicators of the operational pressures facing American and allied airpower in the Persian Gulf. 

Iran’s offensive reach reflected in U.S. base disruptions and confirmed fatalities

TEHRAN – Since the beginning of the joint U.S.–Israeli aggression on February 28, the regional security environment surrounding Iran has placed sustained pressure on American military installations and personnel across the Persian Gulf.

Forty-seven years unbroken: How Iran outlasted every U.S. attempt to force its surrender

TEHRAN - The latest U.S.–Israel assault on Iran began on February 28. Missiles streaked across the sky, striking command centers, air defense sites, political institutions, and civilian infrastructure — including a school, where nearly 170 people were killed, most of them students.

Enemies misjudge the Iranian nation: The warning of Iran’s martyred Leader resonates 

TEHRAN - Twenty-four days after the outbreak of the joint U.S.-Israeli war, the internal dynamics of Iran are unfolding in a way that strongly reflects the long-standing assessments of the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.