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Trump raises India tariffs to 50% over Russian oil purchases
The White House announced Wednesday that it is imposing an additional 25% tariff on India, bringing the total levies against the major United States trading partner to 50%, CNBC reported.
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2025-08-05 21:36
By Soheila Zarfam
Aubergine phobia?
Iranian missiles aren’t the only things unnerving the West. Our aubergines are apparently scary too
TEHRAN – In a world where Palestinian children starve to death under accusations of terrorism, Israel’s prime minister receives standing ovations and unwavering support in Western political circles for upholding "democracy” despite being a war criminal, and the U.S. President floats the idea of turning sovereign nations into American states— perhaps it’s no surprise that Iranians are criminalized for selling tomatoes, potatoes, and aubergines.
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2025-08-04 14:29
Report: US lawmakers sign letter pushing for Palestine state recognition
US Representative Ro Khanna is one of the latest lawmakers to call for the recognition of a Palestinian state, a position he adamantly advocated for when he held a town hall over the weekend.
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2025-08-03 21:32
Iran establishes new defense council to centralize military strategy
TEHRAN – In a move to strengthen national security coordination, Iran's Supreme National Security Council has approved the creation of a new defense council, operating under Article 176 of the Constitution.
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2025/08/02
By Xavier Villar
Realism, power, and tragedy: Mearsheimer dissects Tel Aviv’s dead end
MADRID – John J. Mearsheimer is, without question, the most influential voice in contemporary realist theory in international relations. A professor at the University of Chicago and architect of the so-called “offensive realism” theory, he argues that the international system – lacking any effective supranational authority—pushes states into an inevitable and brutal competition for power.
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2025-08-02 20:36
Iran’s deputy FM discusses key pressing issues with Chinese media
TEHRAN – Saeed Khatibzadeh, an advisor to Iran's foreign minister, a deputy foreign minister, and the president of the Office of Political and International Studies (IPIS), arrived in China for his first foreign visit after the recent US-Israeli hostilities targeting Iran in June.
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2025-08-02 17:34
By Shahrokh Saei
Witkoff’s Gaza visit: A ‘photo-op’ meant to whitewash US-Israeli ‘bloodbaths’
TEHRAN — The visit of US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy to Gaza, framed as a humanitarian mission, appears to be a calculated effort to whitewash a humanitarian catastrophe widely seen as fueled by American support for Israel’s ongoing war on the enclave.
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2025-08-01 19:25
Path to diplomacy narrow, but still open with serious commitments: Iran FM
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that while the path to diplomacy remains open, any resumption of nuclear negotiations hinges on serious commitments from the United States, including compensation for the recent joint U.S.-Israeli aggression and firm guarantees against future attacks during talks.
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2025/07/30
By Bahram Moradi
US boycott of UN meeting on Palestinian statehood not unexpected
TEHRAN - While dozens of countries held a three-day conference at the United Nations in New York to urge the world to work towards a two-state solution between Israelis and the Palestinians within the 1967 borders, the United States and Israel boycotted the event.
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2025-07-30 20:46
Legal action against US-Israeli aggression underway: Iran deputy FM
TEHRAN — A senior Iranian official has reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s commitment to legally pursue the recent US-Israeli attacks on Iranian territory, calling them clear violations of international law and human rights.
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2025-07-29 21:05
No trust in US or Israel, full readiness to repel any aggression: Iran top military chief
TEHRAN – Iran's top military commander has reiterated the Islamic Republic’s total lack of trust in the United States and the Israeli regime, affirming that the country remains fully prepared to respond decisively to any renewed acts of aggression.
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2025/07/29
By Peiman Salehi
What the Iran strike revealed about West’s use of diplomacy
TEHRAN – In June 2025, while indirect nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States were still underway, Israeli forces, soon followed by the U.S., launched a coordinated military strike on Iranian territory. This act of aggression occurred not in the absence of diplomacy but at its very height. Communication channels were open. Sanction relief was reportedly on the table. And yet, bombs fell.
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2025-07-29 20:21
Leader at a ceremony attended by families of Israeli war's victims:
Iran will not cede its religion and knowledge
TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran will persist in its progress across multiple sectors and that Western pressure will not deter the nation from the independent course it established over 46 years ago.
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2025-07-28 22:06
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Washington intensifying pressure on Lebanon ahead of parliamentary polls
BEIRUT — While Lebanon was awaiting Washington’s position on the latest response to Thomas Barrack’s approach to the arms monopoly, the U.S. envoy warned the Lebanese government to “act immediately.”
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2025-07-28 22:00
By Mona Hojat Ansari
Zangezur: The corridor that could break the Caucasus
With Iran’s firm opposition, renewed calls for the illegal route are all but sure to drag region into chaos
TEHRAN – The Republic of Azerbaijan is once again making a splash with its infamous corridor proposal, this time dragging the United States and NATO into the saga after it was forced to scrap its plans last year when Iranian forces amassed the border with Armenia.
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2025-07-28 20:24
Iran says no talks with US until Iranian interests met
TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei rejected renewed nuclear negotiations with the United States during a press briefing on Monday, declaring Tehran has "no plans" for diplomacy until Washington fundamentally changes its behavior and provides ironclad guarantees against aggression.
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2025-07-27 22:18
By Shahrokh Saei
From Trojan dock to airdrop drama: US and Israel’s Gaza deception
TEHRAN — Israel has resorted to public relations stunts in a bid to distract global attention from its brutal siege of the Gaza Strip, which has resulted in “mass starvation” in the Palestinian territory.
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2025-07-27 22:11
By Garsha Vazirian
David’s Sling, Goliath’s Fall
How Iran’s missiles exposed the fragility of US-Israeli air defenses
TEHRAN – The tale of Prophet Dawud (David) toppling the giant Jalut (Goliath) with a single stone echoes in understated tones through the 12-Day War in June. Iran’s missile campaign in self-defense, Operation True Promise III's 22 waves of strikes, challenged the advanced David’s Sling and other U.S.-Israeli air defense systems, revealing not an invincible shield but a fragile, costly facade.
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2025-07-26 22:25
Diplomat says Iran demands diplomatic guarantees, confirms US message exchange via intermediaries
TEHRAN – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, confirmed on Tuesday that Tehran and Washington are exchanging messages through intermediary nations, while simultaneously laying out stringent conditions for any future direct negotiations following the U.S.-Israeli "betrayal of diplomacy" with a 12-day aggression against Iran.
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2025-07-25 22:25
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon in the aftermath of Thomas Barrack’s visit
BEIRUT — Whenever he visits Lebanon, US envoy Thomas Barrack tries to expand the scope of his meetings with ministers and MPs, inciting them against Hezbollah.
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2025-07-23 22:35
‘Iranians not surrendering’: Robert Malley says Israeli aggression ‘fueled Iranian nationalism’
TEHRAN – Robert Malley, the former U.S. official who served as lead negotiator for the 2015 nuclear accord, has delivered a scathing critique of Washington’s confrontational Iran policy, calling military action a strategic blunder that backfired catastrophically.
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2025-07-23 22:29
Iran Navy, Air Defense thwart US warship incursion near territorial waters
TEHRAN – Iranian forces repelled the U.S. destroyer DDG Fitzgerald from approaching Iran's monitored waters in the Oman Sea early Wednesday.
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2025-07-23 22:24
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Barrack, the Don Quixote of US imperialism
BEIRUT — Colonialism was not merely a political and economic hegemony exercised by Western powers over large parts of the world. It was also a profound cultural and ideological plot intended to distort the history of colonized peoples, to fool them, and to impose deviant models of knowledge and values on them.
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2025-07-22 22:02
Matter of 'national pride,' Araghchi says Iran will not give up uranium enrichment
TEHRAN – In an interview with Fox News, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi defended Iran’s nuclear sovereignty, declaring uranium enrichment a "national achievement and pride" while exposing Israeli disinformation campaigns targeting Tehran.
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2025-07-21 19:33
‘Iraq stands with Iran:’ Sudani receives Iranian delegation, vows UN action against Israel
TEHRAN – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani received Mahmoud Nabavian, First Deputy Chairman of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, and his accompanying delegation on Monday.
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2025-07-19 21:35
Former US Security Adviser says attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites were unnecessary
TEHRAN – The former U.S. National Security Adviser has admitted that the Trump administration’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities was unnecessary and counterproductive, especially at a time when Tehran was ready to accept a long-term diplomatic deal.
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2025-07-19 21:28
By Soheila Zarfam
The new US drones made in Iran
The cloning of Iranian Shahed drones comes after years of US dismissal of Iran's military advancements
TEHRAN – Iran's military development is a singular story. Few nations can claim to have independently transformed their military capabilities as dramatically as Iran has in just four and a half decades.
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2025-07-18 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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2025-07-18 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.