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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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2026-01-28 18:59
Hamas official rejects foreign diktats on Palestinian arms
A senior Hamas political bureau member sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of obstructing the transition to the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement. The remarks came after Netanyahu reiterated that Israel would not permit Gaza’s reconstruction unless armed groups in the Strip disarm, and insisted that Israeli security control would continue in both Gaza and the West Bank.
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2026-01-28 18:18
By Wesam Bahrani
Israel's Rafah closure is a death sentence for Gaza's patients
TEHRAN – Israel's continued closure of the Rafah crossing amounts to a death sentence for thousands of Palestinian patients and wounded trapped in the Gaza Strip.
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2026-01-28 18:14
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon’s paradox: An unfinished state and a necessary resistance
BEIRUT — The central challenge facing Lebanon today is often misrepresented as a confrontation between the “state” and the “Resistance.” In reality, it is a struggle between a state that has yet to be fully realized and a defensive necessity imposed by persistent danger.
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2026-01-28 11:22
The U.S., Israel and Iran's protests: Five Issues to Examine
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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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2026-01-27 18:31
By staff writer
A truce in words only: Israel keeps bombing Gaza
TEHRAN – Israel’s killing of two Palestinians in Gaza City’s al-Tuffah neighborhood on Tuesday reflects a familiar pattern. Israel is once again violating the October truce it claims to uphold. On paper, the ceasefire exists. On the ground, Israeli gunfire, airstrikes, and shelling continue.
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2026-01-26 21:24
Foreign Ministry’s warning regarding any possible aggression against Iran:
‘Sweeping and regret-inducing’
TEHRAN — Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei issued a definitive warning on January 26, declaring that the Islamic Republic is fully prepared to deliver a “sweeping, regret-inducing response” to any act of aggression.
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2026-01-26 20:58
By Sheida Sabzehvari
Iran will not fight alone this time
From Baghdad to Beirut, Tehran’s partners signal a wider war if US strikes
TEHRAN – As U.S. naval deployments in the Persian Gulf intensify and Washington hints at the possibility of renewed aggression, a constellation of Iran’s allied forces across West Asia are issuing coordinated warnings that a second war against the country would ignite a region-wide confrontation — one that neither the United States nor Israel, they say, is prepared to contain.
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2026-01-26 18:50
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon: Rising pressures amid Syria’s instability and Israeli threats
BEIRUT — With the Israeli enemy maintaining continuous attacks from the south and the resurgence of ISIS and other extremist groups in Syria, Lebanon faces unprecedented security challenges.
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2026-01-26 18:50
By staff writer
The ceasefire illusion: Israel’s cover for calculated aggression in Lebanon
TEHRAN — Despite the ceasefire agreement signed with Israel in November 2024, the promised peace remains a distant hope for the people of Lebanon. Israel’s military has effectively transformed a signed truce into a period of controlled aggression, conducting near-daily strikes that have claimed hundreds of innocent lives.
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2026-01-25 20:17
Israel carries out another deadly attack in Lebanon in violation of 2024 ceasefire
TEHRAN – Israel’s airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on Sunday once again exposed what many in Lebanon describe as the regime’s entrenched disregard for international law and ceasefire agreements. The Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed that one civilian was killed and several others wounded after an Israeli strike hit the area near Kfardounin in the Bint Jbeil District, a region that has endured repeated bombardment despite the 2024 ceasefire.
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2026-01-24 21:27
Qalibaf hails IRGC for crushing US-Israeli orchestrated terrorism in 48 hours
TEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf declared Saturday that Israel and the United States suffered a “more humiliating defeat” in their recent attempt to ignite terrorist riots across Iran than during the failed 12-day aggression of 2025.
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2026-01-24 21:06
US, Israel hatched ‘false-flag killings’ plot to stir unrest in Iran: top MP
TEHRAN - A senior Iranian parliamentarian says the US and the Israeli regime were pursuing a policy of “false-flag killings” during the recent riots in Iran.
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2026-01-24 20:56
By Fatemeh Kavand
Iran’s response will open the gates of hell
TEHRAN - In a report by Axios correspondent Barak Ravid, it is stated that despite announcing military readiness to attack Iran, Donald Trump abruptly canceled the strike in the final hours of Wednesday as a result of pressure from his regional allies.
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2026-01-24 20:45
By Saleh Abidi Maleki
No anxiety in Tehran as commanders declare readiness for war
Top officials express confidence that US aggression failed once—and will fail again, this time at a much heavier cost
TEHRAN – Iran’s top military officials looked relaxed and in high spirits as they gathered for an annual meeting marking National Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Day. Speaking to an IRIB reporter who managed to gain access to the gathering, the commanders commented on the growing prospects of another war with the United States with visible confidence.
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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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2026-01-24 18:30
By Wesam Bahrani
What Palestinians endure in Gaza amid Israel’s continued demolition and siege
TEHRAN — Palestinians in Gaza are hoping for real changes that could ease their suffering and help them survive the harsh reality they face.
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2026-01-24 18:27
By Sondoss Al Asaad
The US and Lebanon’s trilateral trap
BEIRUT — The United States is intensifying pressure on Lebanon to abandon the existing military “mechanism” overseeing the southern front and move instead toward a Washington-sponsored trilateral committee that would pave the way for political-security arrangements with Israel.
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2026/01/23
By Ranjan Solomon
Iran, the collapse of Western strategy - where empires lose the plot
The enduring logic of civilizations vis-à-vis brute Western arrogance
GOA- Traditional Western approaches (like regime change or containment) towards Iran are failing due to Iran's deep historical roots, revolutionary ideology, and resilience, leading to a shift in global power, where the "West" loses legitimacy as multipolar dynamics emerge, and Iran's strategic endurance, though marked by internal fragility and regional conflict, challenges the old international order. It suggests Western strategies often misjudge Iran's ideological drivers and deep cultural identity, leading to prolonged conflict rather than collapse, as seen in the shifting global landscape favoring non-Western actors.
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2026-01-23 20:54
By staff writer
Beyond the headlines of 3117 dead: Security body unmasks the architects of urban warfare
Official analytical statement links recent atrocities to failed military aggression by the US and Israel
TEHRAN — Iran’s Martyrs Foundation and the State Security Council released an official account on Wednesday night of the recent unrest that has scarred the country.
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2026-01-23 20:53
Pezeshkian: Enemies wrought recent crisis in revenge for defeat in 12-Day War
By Soheila Zarfam
TEHRAN – President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a message to the Iranian nation a day after casualty figures from the terrorist surge convulsing Iran early this month were released, confirming official accusations that the U.S. and Israel had mobilized mercenaries and exploited legitimate protests to compensate for the defeat they suffered during the 12-Day War in June.
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2026/01/23
By Fatemeh Kavand
Trump, Iran International, and the dream of saving Iran
A project to humiliate a nation’s collective intellect
TEHRAN - They say Trump is the savior, protests are democracy, and tanks are on the streets of Iran; yet the admissions of American analysts expose the collapse of the Western media narrative. The issue is not Iran; the issue is a lie that must fall.
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2026-01-23 20:30
US-Israeli strategy in Iran reflects long-term regime change tactics: Pakistani expert
Dr. Barrech draws parallels between the current unrest and the 1953 coup in Iran through sanctions, proxies, and disinformation
TEHRAN - Tehran Times spoke exclusively with Dr. Dost Muhammad Barrech, a Pakistani expert in security and regional politics at the University of Balochistan, Quetta, on the ongoing unrest in Iran and the role of external actors. Dr. Barrech argues that U.S. and Israeli support for violent elements within Iran aimed to weaken the country’s economy and undermine national cohesion.
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2026-01-23 18:43
By Silvina Pachelo
Studying medicine in Cuba: A Palestinian preparing to aid Gaza amid Israel’s assault on doctors
BUENOS AIRES — Muhammad Ali is 21 years old. He is Palestinian, from the West Bank, and studies medicine in Cuba thanks to a scholarship. His story does not begin at a university or in a classroom, but in a territory marked by war, scarcity, and loss. While many young people elsewhere can afford to ignore the harsh reality faced by Palestinians, for him —as for so many others— the horizon is defined by urgency: surviving, protecting one’s family, gaining access to water, medicine, and the most basic necessities.
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2026-01-21 20:30
US treasury chief admits sanctions intended to fuel unrest in Iran
TEHRAN – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has openly acknowledged the role of American sanctions in destabilizing Iran’s economy and fueling public unrest, describing the sanctions as a form of “economic statecraft” that had contributed to recent riots in Iran.
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2026-01-21 19:58
By Wesam Bahrani
Israeli wars deepen domestic anxiety
TEHRAN – Rather than increasing settlers’ sense of security, the Israeli regime’s aggression across the region has had the opposite effect.
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2026-01-20 20:51
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
10 lies Western media is telling you about the unrest in Iran
TEHRAN – January marked Iran’s most eventful month since the nation came under direct U.S.-Zionist strikes in June of 2025. What began as harmless, peaceful protests by business owners demanding economic reforms—the fundamental source of the Iranian people’s hardship being years of crippling Western sanctions—devolved into what can essentially be characterized as systemic urban terrorism.
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2026-01-20 20:27
Riots were intended to disrupt peace and stability in Iran: Turkish president
TEHRAN - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reacted to the recent riots in Iran, unashamedly instigated by US President Donald Trump and the Israeli regime.
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2026-01-20 19:49
Araghchi blasts Davos billionaires’ club for Zionist surrender
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has fiercely condemned the World Economic Forum (WEF) for revoking his invitation to the Davos summit, pointing out that the organization succumbed to fabricated narratives and intense political pressure from Israel and the U.S.