Israel Katz seeks pardon for soldier who killed Palestinian

Israeli war minister Israel Katz has requested that President Isaac Herzog pardon Elor Azaria, a former Israeli soldier convicted for killing an incapacitated Palestinian in Hebron, Israeli media reported.

By staff writer

Rubio declares war on international law by openly threatening the ICC

TEHRAN- Writing an article in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State issued a broadside against the International Criminal Court (ICC) that in 2024 issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former war minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi

Demon has gone to hell, Netanyahu and Trump are next  

Lindsey Graham spent his entire life selling his soul for dirty money

 HAFIZABAD, Pakistan – Now, Senator Lindsey Graham is in a dark grave. The man who spent decades screaming for the destruction of Iran is silent. And the world is better off without him and other like-minded persons. 

By Garsha Vazirian

Israel expands its borderless empire of election theft

From NYC and Bogota to Paris and Luanda, Tel Aviv operates a malicious cyber machine designed to dismantle national sovereignty

TEHRAN — While Western capitals obsess over fabricated narratives of foreign interference, the most toxic threat to global democracy operates with absolute structural impunity directly out of Tel Aviv.

By Wesam Bahrani

What has the Gaza genocide revealed about Israeli politics?

TEHRAN – Prolonged wars test the aggressor’s political system to produce effective leadership, while also maintaining social cohesion.

Cross-border trade between UAE, Saudi Arabia facing delays amid tensions: Semafor

Cross-border trade between the UAE and Saudi Arabia is facing delays, in a sign that tensions between the Persian Gulf neighbors are rippling through the business world.

NATO chief Rutte: A naïve sycophant who is detached from reality

TEHRAN - Mark Rutte does not deserve the post of NATO secretary general. It seems NATO has gone bankrupt in selecting figures to run the 32-member military alliance in these turbulent years.

Ex-CENTCOM chief suggests US needs to move bases from Persian Gulf

The US needs to relocate its bases in the Persian Gulf to Israel and neighboring countries to better protect its assets from Iran’s missiles and drones, the former head of US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Frank McKenzie, said at a webinar last week.

By Wesam Bahrani

Sedition in Lebanon, or a calculated agenda of betrayal?

TEHRAN - Throughout history, political turmoil and national betrayal have often been linked, and Lebanon today is no exception. It faces a dangerous moment where its own officials are making deals that serve Israeli interests.

By Wesam Bahrani

Can the Israel–Lebanon agreement succeed where military victory failed?

TEHRAN – The U.S.-brokered agreement between Lebanon and Israel appears to be far more than a deal governing the occupation regime’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

By Wesam Bahrani

Gaza thwarts seditious plot, renews allegiance to resistance

TEHRAN – The devastated and besieged Gaza Strip, a small, impoverished territory, has endured, for more than two years and eight months, one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history.

By Garsha Vazirian

Behind the new Lebanon framework lies the trap of demographic erasure, endless war

TEHRAN — The document signed in Washington on June 26 under American “mediation” was celebrated in Western capitals as a historic breakthrough, even though it is a crude instrument of asymmetric warfare designed to secure an indefinite Israeli military presence.

By Afshin Majlesi

Experts discuss strategies to protect cultural heritage and historic cities during wartime

TEHRAN – Iranian experts on Tuesday examined international approaches to safeguarding cultural heritage and the historical identity of cities during armed conflict, calling for stronger documentation, digital preservation, legal protection, and broader international cooperation while emphasizing the role of cultural resilience in the aftermath of war.

By Wesam Bahrani

More Lebanese figures reject the “framework agreement”

TEHRAN – Opposition to the Lebanese government’s “framework agreement” with the Zionist regime continues to grow, as the country’s political parties and public figures condemn it for legitimizing occupation and lacking legal or national legitimacy.

By Christoph Hörstel

Charging a fee in Hormuz Strait is legitimate

The US and Israel are violating the terms of the MOU

BERLIN - The Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Iran and the U.S. has undergone its real-world test.

By Garsha Vazirian

Israel maliciously turns Armenian grief into diplomatic grenade masking Gaza atrocities

TEHRAN — On June 28, the Israeli cabinet executed a maneuver it had fiercely resisted for decades. In a unanimous vote, ministers approved Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s proposal to formally recognize the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians during World War I as a “genocide.”

By Soheila Zarfam

‘US and Israel must be brought to justice for their crimes’

Leader tells Judiciary to pursue prosecution of US-Israeli officials responsible for 2025 and 2026 attacks

TEHRAN — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has ordered Iran's Judiciary to pursue the prosecution of American and Zionist officials responsible for war crimes against the Iranian people, declaring that the restoration of the nation's violated rights is among the most urgent judicial matters facing the country.

By Garsha Vazirian

Yemen will ensure the Somaliland scheme becomes a catastrophic trap for Israel

TEHRAN — Any temporary reduction of military hostility by Israel along its northern borders or toward Iran must not be misconstrued as a sign of regional peace. Driven by long-term schemes and intense domestic political crises, including the looming prospect of early Knesset elections, Benjamin Netanyahu remains structurally dependent on a perpetual state of warfare for his political survival.

By Wesam Bahrani

How the Lebanese government advances Israel’s interests!

TEHRAN – The signing of the Pakistan-mediated memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Iran and the U.S. dealt a great blow to the Israeli regime’s expectations from the Lebanese-Israeli negotiations.

When the American arsonist wears a rescue uniform in Venezuela

The cynical theater of the U.S. military’s aid in a sanctioned and suffering nation

TEHRAN — The twin earthquakes that struck north-central coastal Venezuela on June 24, registering magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, brought immense destruction to Caracas and La Guaira. With the death toll nearing 1000 as of writing this article, Western media frames the catastrophe as an isolated natural event met by American charity.

By Wesam Bahrani

Hezbollah’s core principles amid the Lebanon-Israel agreement

TEHRAN – Analyzing Hezbollah’s positions is essential to grasping the current reality in Lebanon amid a framework agreement between the Lebanese government and the Israeli regime.