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Yesterday 21:04
By Mona Hojat Ansari
No talks for now
Iran believes US not genuine about diplomacy as sources say war is Trump’s ultimate choice
TEHRAN – The prospects for new negotiations between Iran and the United States remain dim for the foreseeable future after President Donald Trump bombed Iran last month during ongoing talks that had begun in April, leading Tehran’s leaders to conclude the Republican administration has no genuine interest in a deal.
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Yesterday 19:41
‘US, Israel main sources of regional instability’, Iran rejects claims of arming Yemen
TEHRAN — Iran has categorically rejected recent U.S. accusations that it is supplying military equipment to Yemen, describing the allegations as an attempt to divert public attention from the root causes of instability in West Asia—chiefly the Israeli regime’s escalating crimes against regional nations.
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2025-07-16 22:18
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Under US orders, Banque du Liban demonizes Al-Qard al-Hassan
BEIRUT — The Banque du Liban has announced banks and financial institutions subject to its license are prohibited from dealing with Al-Qard al-Hassan, Hezbollah’s solidarity association.
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2025-07-16 21:59
Iran well-equipped in diplomatic and military fields: Leader
TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran is fully prepared to take the appropriate diplomatic and military measures should the U.S. and Israel decide to once again engage in war with the Islamic Republic.
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2025-07-15 21:59
US court rebuffs Trump: Iranian scholar released from ICE detention
TEHRAN – A Louisiana magistrate judge ordered the immediate release of Iranian mechanical engineering doctoral candidate Pouria Pourhossein-Hendabad on Monday, barring U.S. authorities from deporting him after his arrest during the Israeli regime’s U.S.-backed war on Iran.
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2025-07-15 21:55
US is now taking charge of the infamous Zangezur project
TEHRAN – U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack announced on Friday that the United States has suggested to take control of a proposed corridor that would connect mainland Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan by encroaching on Armenia’s territory, disrupting the country’s historical borders with Iran, and denying Yerevan’s oversee of the route.
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2025-07-15 18:59
By Sahar Dadjoo
Sanctions, delegitimization, and resignations: The end of UN oversight in occupied Palestine
TEHRAN- The recent resignation of all members of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory epitomizes the fraught intersection of human rights accountability, geopolitical confrontation, and organizational challenges within the UN system.
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2025-07-15 18:57
By Batool Subeiti
The Israeli occupation entity’s end is on horizon
LONDON - If the Israeli war on Iran had continued for just two more weeks, it would have been possible that all the occupation entity’s air defense systems would have been depleted as around 30 missiles would have fallen daily on the entity in specific locations, with massive destructive power.
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2025-07-14 21:51
By Soheila Zarfam
Bibi hangs onto ‘daddy’ over missile nightmare
PM says Iran’s missile range should be limited to 480 km after large destruction in Israel
TEHRAN – Benjamin Netanyahu's five-day trip to the United States was marked by a series of eyebrow-raising pronouncements. From announcing that he will nominate Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize to claiming he wants a “better future” for Palestinians after killing over 60,000 of them in cold blood, the Israeli Prime Minister delivered the kind of outlandish statements observers have now come to expect.
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2025-07-13 21:43
By Habib Ahmadzadeh
Condolences on humanity's return to a modern dark age
In response to the U.S. sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the courageous UN rapporteur
TEHRAN – From the moment cinema was born, humanity slowly shifted—from imaginative readers who shaped the world with their minds, to passive watchers mesmerized by giant screens. Heroes once born of paper and thought became three-dimensional spectacles: hyper-masculine men, impossibly beautiful women, shaping the modern psyche with illusion and desire.
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2025-07-13 18:12
Foreign voices highlight Iranian resilience amid Israeli airstrikes
TEHRAN – As dust has somehow settled from the 12-day Israeli-imposed war on Iran that erupted on June 13, 2025, some first-person narratives are emerging, not from Tehran’s official media or state-run broadcasts, but from the mouths of foreign nationals who visited the Islamic Republic during wartime or before.
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2025-07-12 22:42
By Soheila Zarfam
'I gave up my son, will give up my wealth too. Build missiles to hit the heart of Tel Aviv'
Father of Ehsan Qassemi, 16-year-old victim of Israel's war on Iran, asks military to use his deceased son's savings to fight the Zionist regime
TEHRAN – For Israel and the U.S., the war on Iran was all but sure to rack the political system, get the disaffected population on the streets, and eventually bring about the collapse of the Iranian government.
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2025-07-12 21:02
Another Iranian-American arrested as US intensifies crackdown on Iranian diaspora
TEHRAN – The Trump administration detained Bahram Mohammad Ostovari, a 66-year-old Iranian-born and lawful resident of the United States, at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday.
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2025-07-12 20:59
State Department starts firing more than 1,350 workers
The State Department began firing more than 1,350 U.S.-based employees on Friday as the administration of President Donald Trump presses ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its diplomatic corps, a move critics say will undermine U.S. ability to defend and promote U.S. interests abroad, Reuters reported.
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2025/07/12
By Xavier Villar
Iran, the US base at Al Udeid, and the logic of calibrated deterrence
MADRID – On June 23, 2025, as tensions between Iran and Israel reached their highest point in years, several Iranian ballistic missiles struck the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. This was no ordinary target: it is the main hub for U.S. military operations in West Asia and a key symbol of American power projection in the region.
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2025-07-12 17:36
By Afshin Majlesi
A journey beyond the misconceptions
TEHRAN - For those who dare to look beyond the headlines, Iran unveils a spectacular array of treasures. From the ancient ruins of Persepolis, once the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, to the winding alleyways and wind towers of Yazd, a UNESCO-listed desert city, the country is a living museum.
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2025-07-11 23:10
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Is Geagea pushing his ministers to resign?
BEIRUT—Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea continues to prioritize the slogan of “disarming Hezbollah,” particularly following the diminished influence of U.S. envoys in Lebanon's political landscape.
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2025-07-11 23:01
By Sahar Dadjoo
US move against UN Gaza investigator comes as a shock
TEHRAN - The United States' decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has ignited a global outcry and intensified debates over international justice, the independence of UN mechanisms, and the limits of state power.
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2025-07-11 22:35
Silence is complicity: Iran envoy to Denmark slams Israeli attacks on hospitals
TEHRAN – Iran’s Ambassador to Denmark has condemned the Israeli military’s attacks on Iranian medical facilities, warning that the silence of the international medical community in the face of such assaults is not an act of neutrality but one of complicity.
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2025-07-11 22:33
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Ayatollah Khamenei personally commanded war room
Parliament Speaker reveals details of Iran's war management during 12-day fight with Israel
TEHRAN – In an interview addressing the recent Iran-Israel conflict, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf disclosed that the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, played a pivotal role in orchestrating Iran's decisive strikes, which forced both Israel and Washington to seek a ceasefire after just 12 days of war.
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2025-07-09 16:40
By Afshin Majlesi
Cultural heritage is a voice against hostile narratives, Iran tourism minister says
TEHRAN – In a press conference held on Tuesday afternoon, Iran’s Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri, along with his deputies, addressed the ministry’s role in shaping cultural resilience during the recent 12-day conflict with Israel.
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2025-07-09 10:46
Iranian nation will not surrender
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2025-07-08 23:04
Iran says no talks scheduled with US
TEHRAN – Iran has flatly denied claims by U.S. President Donald Trump that nuclear negotiations are back on the table.
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2025-07-08 22:14
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Concern over Barrack’s political storm: Will the trick of former US envoys be repeated?
BEIRUT — Observers took note of the unusually optimistic tone expressed by U.S. Special Envoy to Syria, Thomas Barrack, particularly in light of the heightened rhetoric suggesting that Lebanon could face major escalation if it failed to comply with his proposal to disarm Hezbollah.
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2025/07/08
By Xavier Villar
Pezeshkian defends Iranian sovereignty in a key interview with Tucker Carlson
MADRID – The online interview between Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and American journalist Tucker Carlson in July 2025 goes far beyond a media spectacle. It becomes a political act of high symbolic voltage.
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2025-07-08 10:59
By Salman Parviz
Why Iran emerged victorious in its war with Israel
A new-found unity among Iranians was the most tangible result of the war
TEHRAN – The so-called ’12-Day War’ started with Israeli airstrikes against Iran in the early morning of June 13. The regime’s assault occurred just days before Iran and the United States were set to meet for a sixth-round indirect nuclear talks in Oman, sabotaging the diplomatic process and unravelling any potential progress made during the previous five rounds.
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2025-07-07 22:50
Foreseeable flaws in Gaza aid project led to shooting of Palestinians
GHF program has drawn huge crowds near Israeli troops, who opened fire multiple times
The repeated fatal shootings of Palestinians seeking food at distribution centers in Gaza since late May are an outcome of the aid project’s flawed design, which drew enormous crowds and brought them in proximity to Israeli troops, who opened fire on multiple occasions, according to experts in humanitarian aid programs, witness testimony and visual evidence.
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2025-07-07 22:30
Pezeshkian says Iran open to dialogue, but finds it hard to trust US again
TEHRAN – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian carried out an online interview with an American journalist, where he spoke of the 12-day war with Israel, and how Iran finds it increasingly difficult to trust the U.S. when it comes to diplomacy.
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2025-07-07 22:25
By Garsha Vazirian
BRICS backs Iran
Bloc's joint statement condemns US-Israeli attacks on Iranian soil
TEHRAN – In a display of Global South solidarity, the expanded BRICS bloc representing 11 nations and nearly half of humanity issued a resounding condemnation of the U.S.-Israeli military aggression against Iran during its 17th summit in Rio de Janeiro.
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2025-07-06 22:24
By Wesam Bahrani
Hamas sends unified truce response
TEHRAN – Hamas has responded to a ceasefire proposal in a “positive” manner reflective of a unified stance among all Gaza resistance forces.