By Ali Minabi 

From Balfour to Miliband: Has the West begun redefining Israel?  

TEHRAN – It is difficult to treat British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s remarks about “ethnic cleansing” in parts of the occupied West Bank as simply another diplomatic position toward Israel.

By staff writer

Israel expands southern Syria footprint; tank columns and artillery push past Golan

TEHRAN — Israeli armor and heavy artillery have locked the approach to Damascus into a steady rhythm of bombardment.

Mass Irish protests erupt against Trump over Gaza, aggression against Iran

TEHRAN — Over 10,000 demonstrators filled central Dublin on Saturday, September 12, transforming Donald Trump’s visit to Ireland into a scathing public indictment of American imperial power and its complicity in Israel’s genocidal war crimes.

Aoun’s dilemma: When diplomacy fails to change reality on the ground

TEHRAN — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s visit to Nabatieh was intended to convey a powerful political message: the Lebanese state stands with the people of the south.

By staff writer

Protesters in Cyprus condemn Herzog’s visit, denounce embrace of Israel

TEHRAN — Israeli “President” Isaac Herzog faced sharp condemnation during an official visit to Nicosia on Thursday, as human rights organizations and anti-war activists gathered outside the Presidential Palace to denounce the Christodoulides administration for hosting the head of a regime conducting genocide in Gaza.

Microalgae bloom knocks out most of Israel’s desalination plants

A miles-long microalgae bloom in the Mediterranean Sea has been blamed for temporarily knocking offline many of Israel’s major desalination plants this week, threatening its main source of drinking water, CNN reported.

By staff writer

Israeli troops storm Breqa as raids expand across southern Syria

TEHRAN — Israeli forces stormed the village of Breqa in Syria’s southern Quneitra province on Tuesday, raiding a residential home in the latest brazen assault on Syrian sovereignty.

By staff writer

Volkswagen to hand historic German auto plant to Israeli weapons manufacturers

TEHRAN — Volkswagen has formalized an agreement to transfer its Osnabrück car plant to Israeli investors. The facility will reportedly operate as a dedicated military production hub for Israel’s “Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.” This transaction physically integrates German industrial capacity into the Israeli war machine.

By staff writer

Up to 14,000 bodies still lie under the ruins of Gaza homes

TEHRAN — Thousands of mourners gathered in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood on Sunday for a mass funeral honoring 100 Palestinian martyrs whose remains were recently exhumed from beneath shattered residential buildings.

By M.A. Saki

US House moves to silence universities in favor of Israel

TEHRAN — The United States House of Representatives on September 3 passed a legislation to penalize American universities for boycotting Israel or its academic institutions, including those located in the occupied West Bank.

By staff writer

Shadowy Emirati firm exposed as major oil supplier for Israeli military

TEHRAN — While Israel continues its campaign of mass extermination in Gaza, a newly established Emirati company has quietly stepped out of the shadows to ensure the Israeli war machine never runs out of fuel.

By Ali Minabi

Are regional countries blindly following the US-Zionist plot?

Lives of millions of people across West Asia have turned into an unbearable hell

TEHRAN – Whatever intentions and calculations some regional leaders have, there is a concern that their peoples will grow accustomed to the killing, criminality, massacres, and daily terror that have turned the lives of millions across West Asia into an unbearable hell.

By staff writer

Israeli warplanes slaughter civilians, obliterate hospital in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN — Israeli warplanes ripped through residential districts in southern Lebanon at dawn on Sunday, killing four civilians and wounding 20 others. Israeli strikes targeted populated areas across the Nabatieh district, hitting Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Kfar Remman, and Arab Salim. Women and children bore the brunt of the assault.

By Ali Minabi

Israel’s war on UNRWA: Killing the witness

TEHRAN – For over seven decades, UNRWA has stood as more than a relief agency; it has been the living archive of Palestine’s dispossession.

By staff writer

Former US diplomat: Profit-driven foreign policy, American weapons enabled Gaza genocide

TEHRAN — Hala Rharrit spent 18 years inside the United States State Department. She gave her adult life to American diplomacy. In April 2024, she walked away. She became the first American diplomat to resign publicly over the Biden administration’s actions in Gaza.

By Ali Minabi

What has Trump gained following Netanyahu’s lead? 

TEHRAN – U.S. bias toward Israel constitutes one of the constants of American foreign policy, but Trump has pushed this bias to unprecedented lengths.

By staff writer

Rights organizations demand Congress scrap US-Israel military integration bill

TEHRAN — 56 American civil rights and advocacy organizations have issued a blunt demand to Congress: strip a controversial provision from the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act or risk permanently entrenching Israel inside the Pentagon’s core technology apparatus.

By staff writer

Ben Gvir unveils seven-year blueprint to ethnically cleanse Gaza

TEHRAN — Itamar Ben Gvir has formalized the ultimate objective of the Gaza genocide. Israel’s extremist national security minister published a rigid seven-year timetable to empty the besieged territory of 1.86 million indigenous Palestinians.

Tel Aviv expands occupation of south Lebanon through mass destruction, cluster munitions

TEHRAN — Israeli forces are aggressively accelerating a scorched-earth campaign across southern Lebanon to physically erase border communities while Washington attempts to force a diplomatic surrender in Beirut.

New US missile raises civilian casualty concerns after first use in Iran war

Which American weapon — and how — caused the Lamerd massacre on the first day of the attack on Iran?

TEHRAN — The apparent first combat use of a new US precision missile during the war against Iran has raised fresh concerns over the potential impact of advanced American weapons on civilian populations, with an investigation by Airwars finding evidence that the munition scattered lethal fragments across an area far wider than its publicly advertised fragmentation radius.

Israeli settler arson and military sieges devastate West Bank towns

TEHRAN — A coordinated campaign of arson, land seizures, and military raids is accelerating across the occupied West Bank. Documentation from Palestinian human rights organizations shows that Israel and its armed settler militias are systematically clearing Palestinian communities from their ancestral territory.

By staff writer

Naftali Bennett: Israel is known for ‘baby killers’ just as Italy for pasta

TEHRAN — Naftali Bennett has admitted the collapse of Israel’s reputation among younger Americans. In a recent interview with Itai Segal, the former Israeli prime minister conceded that among American youth, Israel is synonymous with genocide.

By Ali Minabi

Why and how Israeli assassinations in Gaza intensify

TEHRAN – Israeli assassinations in the Gaza Strip have barely let up over the past ten months. They have been carried out regularly and systematically in what appears to be pre-prepared measures. 

By staff writer

Settler rampages, military raids accelerate across West Bank

TEHRAN — Armed Israeli settlers backed by armed forces launched a series of violent rampages across the West Bank over the weekend, unleashing systematic terror against Palestinian civilians, foreign journalists, and human rights defenders.

By staff writer

Israeli forces level border villages in escalating southern Lebanon campaign

TEHRAN — Israeli forces expanded their systematic campaign of military destruction across southern Lebanon on Tuesday, pounding border communities with heavy artillery, launching airstrikes near the Litani River, and detonating entire residential neighborhoods.