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2026-05-03 21:28
By Shahrokh Saei
Inside Iran’s 14-point plan: The ultimatum Trump cannot ignore
TEHRAN - Iran’s latest comprehensive proposal aimed at bringing a permanent end to the US-Israeli war is a litmus test for the administration of President Donald Trump, which is struggling to extricate itself from the “quagmire” of the conflict.
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2026-05-02 21:57
Trump treats Vietnam-era War Powers law as a paper tiger
TEHRAN - President Donald Trump said Friday that a ceasefire with Iran removes the need for congressional authorization of US military operations, a position that has drawn fierce criticism from Democrats who argue he is effectively treating a cornerstone war-limiting law as irrelevant.
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2026-05-01 22:39
By staff writer
Trump administration faces backlash over Iran war 'quagmire' as 60-day deadline expires
TEHRAN - The 60-day deadline for the US administration to seek Congressional approval to continue the war on Iran has officially expired, prompting intense debate as President Donald Trump and his supporters pursue their own legal interpretation of the War Powers Resolution.
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2026-05-01 19:33
History will not forget the blow to human morality, Islamic philosopher says of the Minab tragedy
‘Silence toward human rights violations is a stain on human history’
TEHRAN - The chief of the Islamic Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran has criticized countries' silence about the massacre of 167 students and staff in a school in the city of Minab in southern Iran in the early hours of the U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran on Feb. 28.
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2026-04-25 21:22
By staff writer
Iran’s military strength shatters Washington’s narrative
TEHRAN - The administration of President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the United States has destroyed Iran’s military capabilities during the nearly 40-day war that began on February 28. Trump and his Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, have argued that the joint US–Israeli strikes have effectively crippled Iran’s military capacity.
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2026-04-25 19:53
By Garsha Vazirian
The catfights Trump can’t hide
While lecturing Tehran’s imaginary “new regime”, Washington’s purges and military misadventures reveal the true source of disorder
TEHRAN — When President Trump sneered that Iran’s leaders “are fighting like cats and dogs” because the U.S. has “created a real mess for them,” it was meant as a gotcha line, proof of American triumph. Instead, it hangs in the air like an unwitting self-portrait.
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2026-04-25 19:09
Iran is following Ho Chi Minh’s playbook in Vietnam: FP
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is proving to be a “cartoonish version” of Robert S. McNamara
TEHRAN - Michael Hirsh, a columnist for Foreign Policy, says Iran “is following Ho Chi Minh’s playbook in Vietnam” in the face of the U.S.-Israeli war against the country.
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2026-04-22 19:15
By Dr. Yasir Ali Mirza
Beyond brinksmanship: The Orientalism in Trump's Iran war cry
NEW DELHI - In a striking display of aggressive posturing amid the war on Iran, United States President Donald Trump’s apocalyptic warning of total annihilation in a prime-time television address from the White House has since been reverberating around the world. Demonstrating how his “madman attitude” has made the world more uncertain, he declared that the U.S. army would be hitting Iran “extremely hard,” if his demand of lifting the siege on the Strait of Hormuz would not be heeded by the Islamic Republic Guards Corps (IRGC).
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2026-04-18 21:16
Committing war crimes under the name of religion
Hegseth glorifies war and violence
TEHRAN – Donald Trump and his War Secretary Pete Hegseth are portraying themselves as Messiah in the war against Iran.
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2026-04-18 00:49
By staff writer
Pete Hegseth faces a reckoning for war crimes in Iran
The Minab massacre fuels a historic impeachment drive in Washington
TEHRAN — The corridors of power in Washington are finally echoing with the screams of the innocent, as the political cost of the U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran reaches a boiling point.
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2026-04-12 20:40
By Shahrokh Saei
Hegseth faces backlash for calling the Persian Gulf the ‘Arabian Gulf’
TEHRAN - US War Secretary Pete Hegseth has come under fire after referring to the Persian Gulf as the “Arabian Gulf” in a post on X, reigniting a long-standing dispute over the internationally recognized name of the body of water.
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2026-04-04 01:59
By Maedeh Zaman Fashami
When saying ‘Yes’ becomes a strategy: Trump’s administration and the culture of compliance
TEHRAN- General Randy George was removed from his position for not being a yes-man. This statement was made by Eugene Vindman, a Democratic member of the U.S. Congress, in response to George’s dismissal as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.
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2026-04-04 01:53
By Xavier Villar
The Hegseth doctrine: Colonial blindness and suppression of truth on road to Tehran
MADRID – When Pete Hegseth took office as Secretary of Defense in January 2025, the Pentagon did not receive a strategist. It received a television personality whose relationship to military affairs had been mediated entirely by the camera, the script, and the ideological requirements of a media ecosystem that rewards certainty and punishes complexity.
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2026-04-04 01:49
By Afshin Majlesi
What the firing of Randy George may signal about Iran?
The sudden dismissal of General Randy George should not be read as a routine matter in the military leadership.
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2026-03-13 20:28
By Shahrokh Saei
Trump administration in disarray: How Washington miscalculated Iran's resolve
TEHRAN — The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is struggling to control the message around its rapidly escalating war with Iran, offering mixed and often contradictory statements as the conflict widens. What began as a show of force has quickly turned into a crisis with global consequences, revealing confusion inside the U.S. and raising serious questions about the goals, planning, and direction of the operation.
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2025-12-12 17:40
Top admiral forced out as U.S. escalates military aggression in the Caribbean
The admiral in charge of U.S. military forces in Latin America will retire two years early on Friday, amid rising tensions with Venezuela that include Wednesday's seizure of an oil tanker and more than 20 deadly strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats, Reuters reported.
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2025-12-05 18:58
U.S. kills four more in Pacific strike as Pentagon war-crime controversy intensifies
The U.S. military destroyed another suspected narcotics vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday, killing all four men aboard in the 22nd such lethal operation since September.
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2025-12-03 14:52
Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint
A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September, The Guardian reported.
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2025-12-02 19:14
By staff writer
Venezuelan voices vs. America’s cannons
TEHRAN – Venezuelans took to the streets in Caracas and other cities this week to protest escalating U.S. military pressure. The demonstrations follow the continued presence of the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in the Caribbean and thousands of U.S. troops in the region. The U.S. has also carried out more than 20 strikes on maritime targets in the Caribbean and Pacific since early September, killing over 80 people, actions that Caracas says go beyond anti-drug operations and threaten Venezuelan sovereignty.
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2025-11-29 14:45
Execution of survivors under Hegseth’s ‘kill everybody’ order labeled a war crime
U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind as Donald Trump’s administration launched the first of more than a dozen attacks on alleged drug-running boats that have killed more than 80 people over the last three months, according to The Independent.
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2025-11-09 20:28
By staff writer
War or peace: What Hegseth and Trump signal
TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a speech on Friday that left no ambiguity: the United States is not seeking to avoid war — it is actively preparing for a global confrontation. Speaking at the National War College, Hegseth compared today’s world to 1939, the year World War II began, and 1981, when Cold War tensions surged. These weren’t just historical references — they were warnings. And more than that, they were a roadmap.
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2025-11-02 18:26
U.S. strike kills three in the Caribbean, no proof of drug activity
Three men were killed in a US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean, US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said, the BBC reported.
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2025-10-28 19:14
U.S. Navy's deadly Pacific blitz: 14 slain in 'narco' strikes, total tops 57
The U.S. military killed 14 people in three strikes in the eastern Pacific, an operation disclosed Tuesday on X by War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who labeled the slain “narco-terrorists.”
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2025-10-25 19:47
By Shahrokh Saei
From cocaine to crude: Unmasking the U.S. agenda in Venezuela
TEHRAN – U.S. media reports have blown the lid off the White House’s plans for regime change in Venezuela, revealing flimsy excuses for possible military action that simply don’t hold water.
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2025-10-20 20:25
By Shahrokh Saei
Caribbean crisis: U.S. military actions fuel Latin American pushback
TEHRAN – The United States’ deadly attacks on vessels in Caribbean waters off Venezuela and Colombia, coupled with President Donald Trump’s escalating threats, have thrust the region into global attention. Since early September, nearly 30 people have been killed in strikes that the Trump administration claims are aimed at dismantling drug trafficking networks.