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2026-01-30 20:43
U.S. seeks an Iran that is subservient, says Chinese expert
Hongda Fan warns U.S. and Israeli interference could reshape regional alliances and intensify security rivalries
TEHRAN-Amid renewed unrest in Iran and escalating rhetoric from Washington and Tel Aviv, questions are mounting over whether Western claims of supporting civil liberties mask deeper geopolitical objectives. To explore these dynamics, Tehran Times spoke with Professor Hongda Fan, Professor and director of the China-Middle East Center at Shaoxing University, China.
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2026-01-28 20:52
If Iran attacked, it would unleash a conflict that would be impossible to control: senior analyst
TEHRAN - In an analysis on January 27, a Princeton University researcher argues that if Iran is attacked by the United States and Israel, the Islamic Republic will consider it as an “existential threat” and would unleash a conflict that would not be possible to control.
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2026-01-27 21:16
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
America’s ‘big armada’ won’t change the equation — at least not in Trump’s favor
Rather than forcing capitulation, escalating US pressure is driving Iran to prepare for worst-case scenarios
TEHRAN – Since 2018, Tehran has been the primary actor exercising strategic patience to prevent tensions with Washington from spiralling into an all-out regional conflagration. This restraint has sprung from a recognition of the catastrophic costs of conflict—not only for Iran but for the Arab neighbors it has sought to court against Israeli expansionism, and for extra-regional allies like China that depend on West Asian energy.
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2026-01-27 19:32
Open Israeli role in Iran unrest marks new escalation: Canadian historian
Samir Saul says Mossad activity is increasingly visible following the June 2025 failure
TEHRAN — In an interview with the Tehran Times, Canadian historian and political economist Samir Saul offers a critical assessment of U.S. and Israeli involvement in the protests that unfolded in Iran in January, with a particular attention to U.S. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric.
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2026-01-24 19:20
Trump’s ‘support for Iranians’ masks economic warfare and narrative manipulation: Senior analyst
Elija J. Magnier argues US strategy weaponizes dissent while sanctions intensify civilian hardship
TEHRAN- In an interview with the Tehran Times, veteran war correspondent and geopolitical analyst Elijah J. Magnier delivers a rigorous and unflinching analysis of U.S. and Israeli pressure tactics against Iran, situating them within a long-standing architecture of coercion, narrative warfare, and regional destabilisation.
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2026-01-21 21:49
3,117 people were killed in recent riots in Iran: official announcement
TEHRAN – The Legal Medicine Organization released a report on Wednesday evening announcing that 3,117 people were killed in the recent violent protests in Iran.
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2026-01-19 20:57
By Soheila Zarfam
Stabbed, burned, beheaded, and then sanctioned
A look at the January bloodshed the West and Israel fueled in Iran, and how they hope to do it again
TEHRAN- Qassem’s colleagues at the police force had been searching for him for several agonizing hours. They lost sight of him on the night of January 8th, shortly after they were dispatched to quell potential violence erupting from demonstrations over economic grievances. Until that point, most of the protests across the country had remained peaceful and orderly.
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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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2026-01-17 20:45
Ayatollah Khamenei:
We find Trump guilty for casualties & damages inflicted upon Iranian nation
TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei met with thousands of people from various walks of life to mark the auspicious Eid al-Mab'ath on Saturday.
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2026/01/17
By Xavier Villar
Foreign narratives and their impact on Iran’s political and security landscape
MADRID - In West Asia, and Iran in particular, episodes of social protest rarely remain confined to strictly domestic concerns. Not only because the region is traversed by ongoing conflicts and enduring strategic rivalries, but also because its political space has historically been treated as a legitimate arena for external intervention, reinterpretation, and narrative contestation. In this context, social mobilizations circulate not merely as local political events, but as discursive objects quickly incorporated into explanatory frameworks generated outside the country. The recent protests in Iran provide a particularly illustrative example of this dynamic.
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2026-01-17 20:00
Araghchi talks with counterparts on recent unrest in Iran
TEHRAN- Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has held separate telephone conversations with his counterparts from Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Turkmenistan, France, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, briefing them on recent developments in Iran, condemning foreign interference, and emphasizing Iran’s commitment to sovereignty, dialogue, and regional stability.
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2026-01-17 19:39
Public tip-offs aid arrest of 3,000+ in terror network crackdown
Intelligence operations continue to surge days after short but deadly riots backed by US and Israel
TEHRAN – Extensive intelligence operations have so far resulted in the detention of over 3,000 individuals, including armed terrorists responsible for killings, criminal gangs, youth instigating vandalism, and key figures linking them all to foreign spy agencies and incentivizing participation in the deadly riots that struck Iran on January 8 and 9.
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2026-01-14 19:36
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Iran’s Mossad-backed riots weaponized against Lebanon’s resistance
BEIRUT—At a critical moment when Lebanon remains under sustained Israeli military pressure, a familiar class of political actors has rushed to exploit developments in Iran as a pretext to attack the Resistance at home.
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2026-01-14 19:15
By Munir Daair
The resilient spirit of Iran: Navigating decades of external pressure
Since the Islamic Revolution over four decades ago, Iran has been at the heart of a complex geopolitical struggle. From the outset, the nation has faced a variety of external pressures, including economic sanctions, political pressure, and media campaigns led by Western and Israeli interest groups.
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2026-01-14 18:46
Mourners say farewell to martyrs of security
TEHRAN – Citizens in Tehran on Wednesday participated massively in the funeral ceremony for security forces, better known as “martyrs of security”, who were brutalized during the foreign-backed riots in Tehran, mostly on January 8 to 10.
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2026-01-14 18:25
By Ranjan Solomon
The historical amnesia of empire
A pliant Iran is more important than a democratic one rooted in civilisational autonomy
GOA - The United States has once again discovered Iran’s streets.
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2026-01-13 19:28
By Sondoss Al Asaad
If Tehran falls, the fire won’t stop at its borders
BEIRUT—The potential collapse of the Islamic Revolution in Iran is not a distant theoretical conjecture!
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2026-01-13 18:57
Iran's nation sends defiant message to Trump:
Game Over
TEHRAN – In a mere six months, U.S. President Donald Trump has twice brought Iran and the United States to the brink of dangerous escalation, actions that could have severely harmed the Trump administration domestically and destabilized the entire West Asian region had not Iran exercised principle and restraint.
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2026-01-12 19:33
By Xavier Villar
Crisis management in Iran
TEHRAN - In recent weeks, the streets of several Iranian cities have witnessed a pattern that, to an external observer, feels eerily familiar. Episodes of protest, initially driven by economic grievances, have coincided with acts of targeted violence against civil infrastructure and state symbols. International coverage, alert to potential turning points, has relied on a predictable vocabulary: “unrest,” “repression,” “existential crisis,” drawing parallels, often superficial, with other global instability scenarios.
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2026-01-12 19:10
By Soheila Zarfam
Millions of Iranians rise against terrorists
Massive crowds rally across Iran to condemn deadly riots backed by US and Israel
TEHRAN –Millions of people took to the streets across Iran on Monday to condemn the significantly smaller crowd of rioters and armed terrorists that vandalized public and private property and killed security forces and ordinary citizens over the weekend.
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2026/01/12
By Sheida Sabzehvari
New details emerge of unprecedented scale of violence that plagued Iran over weekend
Government declares three days of national mourning after ‘ISIS-like’ killings by armed rioters
TEHRAN – Even though life is rapidly returning to normal across Iran, people are still clinched by growing terror as reports continue to reveal the horrifying level of violence displayed by rioters and armed terrorists laying waste to Iranian cities on Thursday and Friday.
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2026-01-11 16:57
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Another attack on Iran will have same gains, but heavier losses for US
Trump may not be done exploiting the unrest in Iran, and Tehran is ready to respond
TEHRAN – Western media has been lionizing armed terrorists that burrowed into Iran’s initially peaceful demonstrations as mere “protesters” fighting for freedom and prosperity. When occasionally mentioning their brutal violence, these media outlets only point to their vandalism of government buildings, entirely ignoring the several security forces and citizens they have killed, the public transportation and aide vehicles they have destroyed, or the private businesses and homes they have set ablaze.
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2026-01-11 16:48
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Iran and the recycled playbook of subversion
BEIRUT—As Iran once again finds itself under intense political, economic, and media pressure, the current moment cannot be understood in isolation.
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2026-01-11 16:11
IRGC arrests foreigner operating ‘on behalf of Israel’ in the unrest
TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization announced Saturday it apprehended a foreign national who had covertly entered Iran “on behalf of Israeli spy service” to gather information and assess the activities of the Israeli regime’s “terrorist agents.”
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2026-01-11 16:00
By Soheila Zarfam
Why the unrest in Iran fizzled after 48 hours
TEHRAN – The Iranian business owners that had started a chain of protests over the fall of the Iranian Rial in late December were nowhere to be seen Thursday night. The streets were instead occupied by relatively small groups of young and overwhelmed individuals, who probably didn’t think they would end up bearing witness to what they did that harrowing night.
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2024-11-04 21:58
By Soheila Zarfam
What was the story behind the Iranian girl that walked the campus half-naked?
TEHRAN – A recent incident at an Iranian university has sparked a social media frenzy, capturing the attention of people across Iran and beyond.
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2024-03-17 16:47
Examining politically motivated report on the 2022 unrest in Iran
The Islamic Republic has described the so-called Fact-finding Mission (FFM) report by the United Nations about the 2022 unrest in Iran as inauthentic, non-legal, and politically motivated. Iran has also called the report drafted by Germany, the U.S., and Britain as biased while Israel is committing genocidal in the Gaza Strip.
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2023-09-29 22:09
Iran foils assassination plans intended to foment ethnic unrest
TEHRAN- Iran’s Intelligence Minister, Esmail Khatib, said on Thursday that the government foiled a conspiracy to assassinate several Sunni clergies, judges, and members of the country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
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2023-09-16 22:29
Armed attack on illegal rally in western Iran foiled, terrorists arrested
TEHRAN - Iran’s security forces have arrested a team linked to terrorist groups that had plotted to open fire at people in an illegal gathering in the western province of Kurdistan on the first anniversary of last year’s foreign-back riots.
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2023-09-16 21:31
By Soheila Zarfam
Iranians preferred outing over unrest
Failure of the chaos revival plan
TEHRAN – In the run-up to the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, Western officials and their Farsi-language media outlets launched a concerted campaign to portray themselves as supporting the Iranian people.