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Yesterday 19:40
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
How Iran holds the key to America’s defeat
HAFIZABAD, Pakistan -In modern warfare, victory is rarely determined by statistics alone. The annals of military history are replete with examples where the seemingly weaker power, through strategic ingenuity and an understanding of the fundamental nature of conflict, fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. Today, we pose a fundamental question: Why are the immense military efforts against Iran destined to fail? The answer lies not in the balance of fighter jets or warships, but in the strategic transformation of a single, vital geographical location: the Strait of Hormuz. This narrow waterway is no longer merely a maritime passage; it has become a potent strategic weapon capable of challenging the very pillars of the global balance of power.
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2026-07-25 20:58
By Mona Hojat Ansari
'Hormuz Strait cannot return to pre-war status'
West Asia analyst says Iran must make aggression costly for US and its Arab allies
TEHRAN - In an interview with the Tehran Times, West Asia analyst Gheis Ghoreishi argues that the Strait of Hormuz is Iran's most valuable strategic card in its war with the United States, and that any return to the pre-war status quo would be a fatal mistake.
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2026-07-24 20:57
Omani delegation visits Tehran for Strait of Hormuz navigation talks
TEHRAN - An Omani diplomatic delegation arrived in Tehran on Friday for high-level consultations on regulating commercial vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a report by Iran's official news agency, IRNA.
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2026-07-21 22:45
By Mohammad Javad Akhavan
The geography of the strait speaks for itself
If we look at the map of the physical geography of our beloved country and carefully examine the position of the Strait of Hormuz on it, an important truth becomes evident: the Strait of Hormuz is not merely a waterway, but the natural, submerged continuation of the body of the Iranian Plateau.
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2026-07-21 21:36
Pezeshkian: Diplomatic apparatus will never compromise on the nation's rights
TEHRAN — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that Tehran will not compromise on the nation's rights in ongoing diplomatic efforts.
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2026-07-21 19:50
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
The ghost of 1986 and the geography of confrontation
HAFIZABAD, Pakistan - The year was 1986. The Cold War divided the world, and Ronald Reagan occupied the White House. On April 15th, American warplanes struck targets in Tripoli and Benghazi in Operation El Dorado Canyon. The official reason was retaliation for the La Belle discotheque bombing in West Berlin, an attack attributed to Libyan agents. The strikes lasted barely 12 minutes, but the repercussions rippled for decades.
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2026/07/21
Trump’s reckless gamble: How American aggression against Iran is crippling global economy
TEHRAN- Just weeks after a fragile ceasefire offered a glimmer of hope for stability in the Persian Gulf, the Trump administration has once again plunged the region—and the world—into a dangerous abyss.
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2026/07/20
Can Trump swallow his pride and back down from Strait of Hormuz?
TEHRAN- Nearly five months into a war that Washington arrogantly assumed would be a quick victory, the Trump administration finds itself trapped in a strategic dead end of its own making.
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2026-07-19 21:04
By Mahmoud M. Ravi-Nejad
No US base in West Asia is beyond Iran's reach
TEHRAN— Iran has significantly expanded its military response to renewed US operations in and around the Persian Gulf, combining retaliatory drone strikes, air defense operations and tighter control over the Strait of Hormuz in a coordinated campaign to impose mounting costs on Washington while preserving their own military resources.
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2026/07/19
By Xavier Villar
Geography’s veto
MADRID - To repeat a failing strategy is to confess an exhaustion of political imagination. The United States, still unable to metabolize the profound humiliations of its recent military and political defeats, has fallen into a kind of strategic hauntology.
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2026-07-18 20:28
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
The illusion of victory: Why America cannot bomb its way out of the war
HAFIZABAD, Pakistan - The American people were never asked if they wanted the war against Iran. They never heard a single speech explaining why their sons and daughters must fight and die in the Persian Gulf.
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2026-07-18 16:47
Lord of the Straits
The role of Makran's coastal dwellers in Iran's maritime border defense
BANDAR ABBAS- Throughout history, the land of Iran has consistently drawn significant attention due to its abundant resources and strategic geographic location. This land has been inhabited by people who, in every era, have acted as responsible guardians, striving to maintain the purity and integrity of their homeland.
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2026-07-17 20:30
Hormuz Strait is Iran's 'most effective tool' for retaliation, cleric says
TEHRAN – Tehran's interim Friday prayer leader, Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari, said Iran views the Strait of Hormuz as its most effective strategic instrument for retaliating against the United States and Israel, while declaring that negotiations with Washington had effectively come to an end.
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2026-07-17 20:25
Any US ground invasion would Put Kuwait, Bahrain in Iran's crosshairs: MP
TEHRAN – An Iranian lawmaker has warned that a US ground invasion of Iran could prompt Tehran to launch ground operations against Kuwait and Bahrain.
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2026/07/15
By Xavier Villar
Gogol in Hormuz: The collapse of US hegemonic fiction
MADRID - In Nikolai Gogol’s “The Government Inspector”, corrupt officials in a small Russian town panic at the arrival of a young man from St Petersburg. Ivan Khlestakov is a minor clerk, but the locals’ fear of their own embezzlement elevates him to an imperial auditor. His authority derives not from the tsar, but from his hosts’ paranoia. When the mask slips, only the ridicule of the deceived remains.
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2026-07-15 20:50
Strait of Hormuz: A geopolitical lever
Mashallah Shams‑al‑Vaezin, a prominent analyst of strategic affairs, told Etemad that the recent Iran–US tensions in the Strait of Hormuz should be interpreted in connection with Clause 5 of the memorandum of understanding between the two countries.
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2026-07-15 20:30
By Fardin Molaei
Missiles fired in Hormuz, ballots shaken in America
From the Strait of Hormuz to Capitol Hill: A war reshaping US politics
TEHRAN– Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on Wednesday a sweeping new wave of military operations targeting US military infrastructure across the Persian Gulf, saying the strikes were carried out in retaliation for continued American attacks on Iranian territory and violations of the Iran-US Islamabad memorandum of understanding (MoU).
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2026-07-15 18:04
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
The Strait of Hormuz: Iran's geographic destiny and strategic red line
HAFIZABAD, Pakistan - For centuries, the narrow blue artery that separates the Arabian Peninsula from the Iranian plateau has been more than a mere shipping lane. The Strait of Hormuz, at its slenderest point a mere 21 nautical miles across, has functioned as the world's petroleum lifeline, the chokepoint through which approximately a fifth of global oil consumption once flowed.
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2026-07-13 21:13
The shocking death of the main anti‑Iranian Zionist lobbyist
Hamshahri published an analysis clarifying the political character of Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, in relation to Iran. According to Hamshahri, Graham’s death has left Zionist groups and anti‑government Iranian activists more grief‑stricken than anyone else, as he had been one of the most aggressively anti‑Iranian figures in Congress for nearly two decades and never hesitated to show hostility toward the Iranian people.
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2026-07-13 21:09
The E3’s double standard: Condemning Iran, shielding the US
TEHRAN - The joint statement issued by the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany (the E3) regarding the escalation in the Strait of Hormuz exposes a glaring double standard in European foreign policy. By condemning what they termed Iran’s "reckless attacks" on commercial shipping and regional countries, the E3 has chosen to enforce international law selectively, completely ignoring the flagrant violations committed by the United States.
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2026-07-13 21:04
By Mahoud M. Ravi-Nejad
"Hormuz belongs to us, not foreigners," Iran says
TEHRAN — Iran on Monday announced a significant expansion of its retaliatory military campaign against United States forces across the Persian Gulf region, saying coordinated missile, drone, and air-defense operations targeted American military infrastructure in Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, and Oman in response to “continued US aggression against Iranian territory.”
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2026-07-12 23:09
By Sahar Dadjoo
Iran's Hormuz leverage is a "genuine asymmetric equaliser" no other card can match: Italian analyst
Boltuc says raising perceived shipping risk alone is enough to move markets, pressure Trump ahead of the midterms
TEHRAN – In an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times, Silvia Boltuc, an Italian geopolitical analyst and Managing Director of Special Eurasia, examines the collapse of the US-Iran memorandum after Washington's July strikes.
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2026-07-12 21:15
Hormuz locked: Iran crushes US military might
TEHRAN - The continuous military strikes executed by the United States against Iran in blatant violation of the recent interim agreement mark yet another severe miscalculation in Washington’s historically hostile approach toward the Islamic Republic.
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2026-07-12 21:13
Responding to enemy attacks with heavy blows to US strategic infrastructure
Kayhan dedicated an article to the recent US attacks on Iran’s infrastructure. It wrote that the terrorist US military has continued its aggressive strikes on Iran, targeting not only coastal infrastructure along the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, and southern islands, but also two corridor points in Iran’s northeast.
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2026-07-12 21:11
Iran tightens control over Strait of Hormuz, suspending maritime traffic
TEHRAN- Iran has suspended maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and intensified its control over the world's most strategically important energy corridor, accusing the United States of violating the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) by attempting to impose unauthorized navigation routes and interfering in the waterway's administration.
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2026-07-12 16:03
Will world economy pay price for violating Islamabad agreement?
TEHRAN- The violation of numerous clauses of the Islamabad memorandum of understanding by the United States and Iran's decision to halt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is not merely the end of a political agreement; it is an event that could once again turn "geopolitical risk" into one of the most critical variables affecting the global economy, according to IRNA.
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2026-07-11 21:05
Bluster to mask defeat: Trump’s rhetoric exposes US-Israeli disarray in face of Iranian resilience
TEHRAN – President Donald Trump has intensified military threats and rhetoric against Iran as he struggles to find an off-ramp to bring a permanent end to the joint US-Israeli war against Iran that initially began more than four months ago.
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2026-07-11 20:41
Araghchi meets Omani counterpart to discuss Hormuz shipping arrangements
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held talks with his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Al-Busaidi in Muscat on Saturday, focusing on bilateral relations, regional developments, and mechanisms to ensure the safe passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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2026-07-10 20:26
America cannot be trusted
Kayhan, in an analysis on distrust toward the United States and the proper response to its repeated violations, wrote: The history of Iran–US relations has proven that America cannot be trusted. Today, the battlefield for a final response is fully prepared, but before that, the diplomatic apparatus must immediately announce the end of this ineffective memorandum.
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2026-07-01 21:23
Qalibaf says Iran won't give up Hormuz Strait
Parliament Speaker also warns force remains an option for Tehran
TEHRAN — Iran will never give up its control over the Strait of Hormuz, Parliament Speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Tuesday, calling the waterway the country's most valuable strategic asset.