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Today 22:21
Iranian court begins hearings for Mossad agent arrested in June war
TEHRAN – Iranian judicial officials say a court in Alborz Province has opened proceedings against a dual national charged with spying for Israel during the June Israeli-U.S. offensive against Iran.
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Today 22:17
By Sondoss Al Asaad
From Oracle to Starlink: Lebanon’s security sovereignty in the wind
BEIRUT — Lebanon has always lived in the crossfire of regional conflicts, but rarely has its digital sovereignty been placed so casually on the negotiating table.
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Today 22:13
By Wesam Bahrani
How Israel trampled on human rights in Gaza
TEHRAN – Gaza has been subjected to the harshest forms of collective punishment in modern history, measures that grossly violate international law and amount to war crimes.
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Today 22:04
By Sahar Dadjoo
Iran’s stand in the 12-day war undermined U.S.-Israeli strategy, says Philippine scholar
Julkipli Wadi warns that as Israel widens its aggression, Iran’s resilience signals a new regional momentum.
TEHRAN – At the sidelines of the Conference on “People’s Rights and Legitimate Freedoms in the Thoughts of Ayatollah Khamenei,” the Tehran Times spoke with Professor Julkipli Wadi of the University of the Philippines to examine the conference’s intellectual significance, the current crisis of international law, and Iran’s evolving role in regional security.
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Today 20:07
By Shahrokh Saei
Is Israel’s mirage of victory in Gaza fading?
TEHRAN – More than two years after Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, the outcome is undeniable: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to “destroy Hamas” has failed.
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Today 19:26
Israel violates Lebanon ceasefire again, unleashing heavy airstrikes and ground demolitions
TEHRAN — Israeli warplanes unleashed a heavy barrage across southern Lebanon late Monday into Tuesday, hammering Jabal Safi, the valley between Azza and Roumine, and multiple sites in Iqlim al-Tuffah.
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Today 19:24
Israeli forces detain eight Palestinians in overnight raids across northern West Bank
Israeli occupation forces carried out fresh overnight raids across the northern West Bank, detaining eight Palestinians from the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, and from the Old Askar refugee camp to the east, Middle East Eye reported Tuesday.
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Today 16:29
Blair dropped from leading Trump’s Gaza board after regional objections
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been removed from consideration to lead U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed “board of peace” in Gaza, the Financial Times revealed, following objections raised by several Arab and Muslim states.
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Today 15:29
Israel killed nearly half of all journalists slain globally, new report confirms
A new report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Tuesday confirms that 67 journalists were killed worldwide between December 1, 2024, and December 1, 2025, nearly half of them in the Gaza Strip, where they were killed by Israeli forces.
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Yesterday 22:00
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon faces a choice between real power and foreign illusions
BEIRUT—Lebanon’s political and security landscape has long been defined by a paradox: the nation’s true defenders often operate outside formal institutions, while the official state struggles to assert authority, maintain sovereignty, or protect its people.
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Yesterday 21:34
By Garsha Vazirian
The tail that trained the dog to heel
From Pollard’s tea party to hidden microphones in Gaza “aid” center—same leash, same blood
TEHRAN – They built the room together. America paid for the walls, the fake grass carpet, and the giant posters of Trump’s twenty-point plan. America flew in the logisticians who know how to move rice through war zones. America even invited a few Dutch and Emirati officers to keep up the pretense of multilateralism.
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Yesterday 17:23
Netanyahu secretly plotted with Tony Blair to impose foreign occupation on Gaza: Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly held a clandestine meeting with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss a new foreign-administered framework for governing the Gaza Strip, Al Mayadeen reported Monday, citing the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN).
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Yesterday 16:18
Israel won’t relinquish newly occupied Syrian territory near Damascus, Netanyahu says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his military will not withdraw from territories it occupied in southern Syria, Anadolu reported Monday.
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2025-12-07 21:54
After 'war on global technology,' Iran pushes for advanced stealth missiles
TEHRAN - The commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has declared that enhancing the country's stealth-missile technology is a critical priority. He also issued a warning that any new Israeli aggression would be met with a response more severe than ever before.
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2025/12/07
By Xavier Villar
The colonial reconfiguration: Israel and the extinction of sovereignty in West Asia
MADRID – In the conventional diplomatic lexicon, “normalization” is typically framed as an intrinsic good: the peaceful acceptance of a state within recognized borders, integrated into the regional economic and security architecture. It is a term that evokes closure and resolution.
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2025-12-07 21:40
By staff writer
Merz’s appeasement of Netanyahu will only embolden war criminals
TEHRAN - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Israel for the first time since taking office in May. Merz’s visit comes just days after Germany decided to lift a three-month suspension on arms exports to Israel.
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2025-12-07 20:25
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon’s neutrality debate in a shifting regional context
BEIRUT — Let’s try, for a moment, to imagine a Lebanon where words mean what they say. In that alternate universe, “neutrality” would imply rejecting foreign meddling of any kind, “interference” would refer to bombing residential areas, and “sovereignty” might include the radical notion of objecting to drones overhead.
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2025-12-07 18:51
By Wesam Bahrani
The future of armed resistance in Gaza
TEHRAN – The Palestinian resistance in Gaza faces a precarious period between flimsy ceasefires and ongoing aggression.
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2025-12-07 18:14
Handala names Iron Dome architects in devastating leak
TEHRAN – In another operation in its cyber campaign against Israel’s military establishment, the pro-Palestine hacking collective Handala has published the detailed identities of what it calls the “main architects” of the Iron Dome missile defense system.
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2025-12-07 15:21
Hamas signals readiness to place arms under Palestinian state authority
Hamas said Saturday it was ready to hand over its weapons in the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian authority governing the territory on the condition that the Israeli army's occupation ends, AFP reported Saturday.
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2025-12-07 15:20
Israel committed 57 assaults on Palestinian journalists in November alone
Israeli forces and illegal settlers committed 57 violations and assaults against journalists in the occupied West Bank and Gaza in November, Anadolu reported Sunday, citing the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS).
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2025/12/06
By Fatemeh Kavand
Implications of potential transformations in US-aligned governments for Iran’s future
Instead of using the help of Arab states, Israel may leverage Arab instability to target Iran
Political shifts in West Asia are rarely calm or gradual; rather, they tend to be sudden, multilayered, and deeply interconnected. For decades, countries in the region have repeatedly witnessed how a single spark can alter the course of history.
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2025-12-06 22:45
Terrorists arrested before Tehran metro bombing; trainer a ‘NATO officer’ residing in Sweden
TEHRAN – A number of individuals in Iran, receiving funds and training out of Europe, were arrested by intelligence forces before they could carry out the terrorist operations they had been instructed to conduct, which included the bombing of Tehran’s vast metro station, the killing of police and security forces, and the murder of random civilians.
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2025-12-06 22:18
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Scrambling to Sustain a Waning Hegemony
Decoding the 2025 US National Security Strategy
TEHRAN – The White House's periodic document outlining United States foreign policy and national security strategy was released by the Trump administration on Thursday. The 33-page document, which appears to draw heavily on Trump's "America First" policy, has raised alarms in nearly every region of the world—with the probable exception of Israel.
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2025-12-06 20:08
‘Pause’ in Gaza cannot be called ‘ceasefire’ without Israeli withdrawal: Qatar PM
Negotiations on consolidating the U.S.-backed truce in the war in Gaza are at a "critical" moment, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Saturday, according to Reuters.
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2025-12-06 19:57
By Shahrokh Saei
A thousand cuts: Israel’s hybrid war tactics in the Persian Gulf
TEHRAN – In the Persian Gulf, the islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb have long stood as enduring symbols of Iran’s sovereignty. The renewed mention of the islands in the final communique of a Persian Gulf Arab summit in Bahrain was not a mere diplomatic formality, but part of a broader geopolitical maneuver. The statement, which condemned what it called Iran’s “continued occupation” of the islands, was swiftly rejected by Tehran.
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2025-12-06 19:03
By Sondoss Al Asaad
LF outsourcing patriotism to the occupiers: See how it ended in Afghanistan
BEIRUT—No contradiction in Lebanese politics is more glaring than the desire of the Lebanese Forces (LF) to see the Israeli enemy resolve their political dispute inside Lebanon. A party that claims to defend state sovereignty routinely seeks foreign intervention against a Lebanese actor with a proven popular and national base.
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2025-12-06 17:43
Israel hikes military service to 36 months amid ‘corruption and draft-dodging’ crisis
Israeli War Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on 5 December a plan to extend mandatory military service to 36 months, The Cradle reported Saturday.
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2025-12-06 17:40
Sara Netanyahu’s interference in Gofman appointment triggers uproar
A political and security storm is brewing in Israel following a Channel 13 report revealing a lengthy meeting between Roman Gofman and Sara Netanyahu, just days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Gofman’s appointment as head of the Mossad, according to Al Mayadeen’s Saturday report.
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2025-12-06 17:35
UN warns of sharp surge in Israeli settler attacks across West Bank in 2025
The UN warned of a surge in illegal Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank, highlighting ongoing humanitarian disruptions in northern communities, Anadolu reported Saturday.