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Yesterday 18:38
Trump threatens military aggression against Venezuela despite American public opposition
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to rule out a military invasion of Venezuela, asserting his objectives are clear to President Nicolás Maduro.
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Yesterday 16:25
UN: U.S. sanctions against ICC judges undermine international justice
The United Nations has issued a strong warning over newly announced US sanctions targeting judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stressing that such measures threaten judicial independence and weaken the global system of accountability.
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2025-12-17 19:35
Europe has adopted a posture of submission toward Trump: Foreign Affairs
‘By giving in to Trump on defense, trade, and democratic values, Europe has effectively bolstered far-right forces’
TEHRAN – In an article on December 12, Foreign Affairs magazine highlighted Europe’s submission to U.S. President Donald Trump in realms of security and trade that his administration’s endorsement of far-right parties in the continent.
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2025-12-17 19:26
By Garsha Vazirian
MAGA's funeral pyre and the rotting White House
Trump's chief of staff lays bare a regime of ego, cruelty, corruption and betrayal
TEHRAN – The most terrifying sound in Washington right now is not the shouting of protesters or the drone of Congressional subpoenas; it is the shattering of the "Ice Maiden."
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2025-12-17 19:21
By staff writer
From sanctions to blockade: Trump’s naval coercion of Venezuela
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to order a “total and complete” blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers marks one of the most dangerous escalations in Washington–Caracas relations. While the Trump administration presents the move as a sanctions enforcement action, the reality is far more serious: the use of military force to control another country’s trade, outside international law and without global consent.
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2025-12-13 16:33
New Epstein estate photos show Trump surrounded by women with blacked-out faces
House Democrats released a selection of photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including some of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and the former Prince Andrew, AP reported Saturday.
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2025-12-12 19:14
By staff writer
Piracy and pressure: US push against Venezuela
TEHRAN – The confrontation between the United States and Venezuela in late 2025 is not a sudden flare-up but the continuation of Washington’s long-standing pressure campaign.
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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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2025-12-10 22:49
By Mahdi Zolfaghari
Europe’s hidden fear of Trump
TEHRAN – Despite the recent US-Russia negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine ending without results—reportedly due to deadlock over Trump’s 28-point plan—, NATO foreign ministers have taken a firm stance.
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2025-12-10 19:47
By Shahrokh Saei
Trump’s psychological warfare over Venezuela’s skies
TEHRAN – The United States has intensified its pressure on Venezuela by sending two Navy F/A 18 fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela. Although the Pentagon described the maneuver as a routine training flight, the timing and proximity to Venezuelan airspace made it appear far from routine.
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2025-12-10 18:47
By Tannaz Karimi
Trump’s immigration policy: Global threats and domestic messaging
TEHRAN - In 2017, President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda marked a turning point in U.S. policy—delivering a jarring shock through travel bans, stricter border enforcement, and steep refugee limits. His most recent announcement in late 2025, declaring a “permanent pause” on migration from so-called Third World countries, represents the most radical extension of this trajectory so far.
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2025-12-10 16:25
Trump’s peace deals at risk of collapsing
At least two of several agreements aimed at ending global conflicts that President Donald Trump has hailed as evidence of his negotiating prowess are in trouble and at risk of collapsing.
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2025-12-09 22:20
Trump 'only interested' in Venezuela's oil: analyst
'Invoking the term “Monroe Doctrine” by the current regime has a certain element of populist appeal among the isolationist-leaning electorate'
TEHRAN – Yuram Abdullah Weiler, an engineer-turned political analyst, argues that U.S. President Donald Trump’s intense pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stems from a desire to dominate the country and secure access to its vast oil reserves, which surpass those of Saudi Arabia.
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2025-12-09 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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2025-12-09 15:28
At least 12 killed as Cambodia-Thailand border clashes reignite despite Trump-brokered truce
Fighting between Cambodia and Thailand escalated along their contested border on Tuesday, according to Reuters, as the Southeast Asian neighbors both said they would not back down in defending their sovereignty.
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2025-12-07 20:10
By staff writer
Caribbean chessboard: U.S. move to check Russia and China
Is the U.S. effort to overthrow Maduro limited to Venezuela?
TEHRAN – When U.S. forces began striking vessels in the Caribbean in early September, Washington said it was fighting drug cartels. Yet almost 90 people have been killed, no narcotics have been shown as evidence, and the scale of deployment, including the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group, makes clear this is not a routine mission.
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2025-12-07 16:06
America, exhausted and broken
Deciphering the new U.S. National Security Strategy
TEHRAN – The second Trump administration has released a 33-page National Security Strategy document, unveiled under the “America First” banner and centered on redefining Washington’s role in the world.
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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
By Ranjan Solomon
Venezuela after the vote: democracy, deterrence, the geopolitics of oil
“Those who preach democracy to Venezuela spent twenty years undermining its right to breathe.”
GOA, India - Six months have passed since Venezuela concluded its national elections, yet Western capitals continue to behave as though the ballots were still being counted. Their critiques, statements, and carefully staged condemnations have not diminished; if anything, they have intensified.
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2025/12/05
By Lucia Hubinská
Is Japan sliding back toward militarism?
XIAMEN – Relations between China and Japan are undergoing their most serious shock in a decade. And yet, as recently as 2024—after the lifting of pandemic restrictions—it seemed the two countries were slowly moving toward improved relations. This trend was abruptly disrupted in recent weeks, when a series of diplomatic missteps gave way to open disputes.
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2025-12-03 20:23
By Garsha Vazirian
The empire’s orphan strikes back
A tragedy forged in CIA’s narco-empire has been weaponized for a technocratic police state
TEHRAN – Amid a bitter clash over Trump’s attempt to federalize the National Guard, Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly opened fire outside a D.C. recruitment center on November 26, killing one soldier and critically wounding another.
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2025-12-03 20:14
By M.A. Saki
Trump’s Venezuela policy could turn world into jungle, professor warns
“The international safeguards are crumbling”
TEHRAN – An American professor of international affairs warns that the world is sliding into a “veritable jungle” as U.S. President Donald Trump openly threatens to strike deep inside Venezuela, alleging the Latin American nation is engaged in narco-trafficking.
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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 22:09
By Mona Hojat Ansari
How the Iran-US mediator obsession sidelines what actually matters
The real barrier to diplomacy isn't that Tehran and Washington can't talk —it’s that Washington insists on dictating all terms
TEHRAN – Hopes for a renewed diplomatic breakthrough between Iran and the U.S. have lingered ever since their last round of talks was shattered in June by Israeli and American airstrikes—an unprecedented bombing campaign targeting Iranian nuclear, civilian, and military sites that killed approximately 1,100 people and raised serious questions about Washington’s choice to bomb a country it was negotiating with.
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2025-12-02 22:05
Araghchi says Iran was ‘very close’ to deal with US before June attacks
An ongoing American intransigence blamed for the failure
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran was very close to reaching an agreement with the United States during Omani-mediated talks held earlier this year, but Washington’s refusal to accept any of Iran’s many solutions torpedoed the process, and its subsequent attacks further eroded trust in the U.S. commitment to diplomacy.
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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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2025-12-02 19:04
Trump formally pardons former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández
President Donald Trump has formally pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, according to his attorney Renato Stabile and a White House official, CNN reported.
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2025/12/02
By Patricia Esami-Lubba
Trump’s Africa posture is less about human rights though more about power politics
ABUJA – When Donald Trump turns his attention to Africa, it is rarely for reasons African policymakers recognize as grounded in fact or consistent principle. His latest escalation of tensions with Nigeria and South Africa, framed as a moral crusade against human rights abuses, reflects a recurring pattern: selectively invoking the language of rights to justify punitive diplomacy that ultimately serves domestic politics more than international justice.
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2025-12-01 21:34
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Bully politics: The American style
Trump calls Maduro, tells him to step down and leave Venezuela or get attacked
TEHRAN – American commentators trying to make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump’s governing style say he is not mentally intact or that he has an unstable personality easily swayed by the last person he speaks to.
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2025/11/30
By Mahdi Zolfaghari
Economic storm ahead for U.S. Congress
TEHRAN - U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a new wave of negative economic polls, indicating that a significant portion of voters are dissatisfied with his administration’s handling of financial and livelihood issues. This growing dissatisfaction, reflected increasingly in public data, could directly impact his political standing, especially ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections.