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Yesterday 22:04
Another group of Iranian inmates freed in US head home
Another batch of Iranian nationals freed from detention in the United States have left the Mesa Gateway Airport in the state of Arizona to return their homeland, said head of the Iranian Interests Section in Washington, D.C., Abolfazl Mehrabadi.
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Yesterday 21:34
By Garsha Vazirian
The tail that trained the dog to heel
From Pollard’s tea party to hidden microphones in Gaza “aid” center—same leash, same blood
TEHRAN – They built the room together. America paid for the walls, the fake grass carpet, and the giant posters of Trump’s twenty-point plan. America flew in the logisticians who know how to move rice through war zones. America even invited a few Dutch and Emirati officers to keep up the pretense of multilateralism.
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2025-12-07 21:52
MPs denounce 'terroristic' US threats in discussions with Venezuelan envoy
Ambassador says Iran and Venezuela share the same enemy
TEHRAN – A group of Iranian parliamentarians have denounced the United States’ escalating threats against Venezuela.
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2025-12-07 21:47
What Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said at his weekly briefing
TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson has addressed a wide range of regional and international issues, from U.S. visa restrictions for World Cup participants to tensions in the West Asia, underscoring Tehran’s positions on sovereignty, security, and diplomacy.
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2025-12-07 21:46
Tehran ready for dialogue, but only after US policy shift, Araghchi says
TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran remains unconvinced that the United States is prepared to engage in genuine and serious negotiations over the future of nuclear talks, while reaffirming that Tehran is ready to resume dialogue if the United States adopts a fair and balanced approach.
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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
By Fatemeh Kavand
Implications of potential transformations in US-aligned governments for Iran’s future
Instead of using the help of Arab states, Israel may leverage Arab instability to target Iran
Political shifts in West Asia are rarely calm or gradual; rather, they tend to be sudden, multilayered, and deeply interconnected. For decades, countries in the region have repeatedly witnessed how a single spark can alter the course of history.
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2025-12-06 22:31
Iran gaining access to technology of advanced American GBU bombs: Report
TEHRAN – Lebanese media have reported that Hezbollah, the Lebanese Resistance movement, has provided its ally Iran with images and components of the advanced U.S.-made GBU-39B bomb.
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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 21:50
Unilateral US measures are ‘crimes against humanity’, says Tehran
TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson has reiterated that unilateral sanctions amount to “crimes against humanity,” insisting that the United States must be held accountable for imposing illegal and inhumane measures.
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2025-12-05 21:48
Public back-and-forth continues between Araghchi and Lebanese counterpart
Iran’s FM reiterates support for Lebanon’s sovereignty after Rajji lashes out over concerned warnings
TEHRAN – Tehran moved to calm diplomatic waters on Thursday after Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, firmly reiterated the Islamic Republic’s unwavering respect for Lebanese sovereignty, following what appeared to be an excessive and unexpected reaction from Lebanon’s top diplomat to an Iranian politician’s warning about the whittling away of Lebanon’s defense prowess in the face of continued Israeli aggression.
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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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2025-12-05 15:57
The arsonist masquerading as peacemaker
How the U.S. sacrificed Ukraine for its own geopolitical interests
TEHRAN – The Ukraine war has evolved into one of the most intricate and tangled issues on the global stage. On one side, the Ukrainian government is beset by severe internal crises—acute manpower shortages and sprawling corruption scandals—while on the other, Russia, despite sustaining various losses and setbacks, continues to hold the clear upper hand on the battlefield.
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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 20:21
Pezeshkian says no degree of pressure can force Iran into submission
TEHRAN – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that no degree of pressure can force a determined and resilient nation into submission, declaring that Iran’s adversaries “cannot impose their demands with equipment and aircraft.”
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2025-12-03 15:15
Kremlin aide: No breakthrough in Russia-US Ukraine peace negotiations
Five hours of talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and top United States negotiators did not yield a breakthrough on a possible Ukraine peace deal, a Kremlin aide said early Wednesday, CNN 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 22:04
Tehran court orders U.S. to pay over $22 Billion in damages for inciting deadly riots
TEHRAN – A Tehran court has ordered the United States government to pay more than $22 billion in material, moral, and punitive damages for Washington’s involvement in the deadly riots that convulsed Iran in 2022.
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2025/12/02
By Fatemeh Kavand
Iran, Lebanon, and the fog of West’s psychological warfare
The recent remarks by Lebanon’s foreign minister about “Iranian interference” have triggered a wave of reactions across the region’s political landscape.
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2025/12/02
By Ranjan Solomon
US–Maduro head-on: oil, hegemony, and the future of sovereignty
GOA, India - The confrontation between the United States and Nicolás Maduro is one of the most revealing geopolitical conflicts of our time. It is not a clash of democratic ideals versus authoritarianism, as Washington tirelessly claims. It is not a moral crusade to rescue Venezuela from misrule, nor a humanitarian duty to “restore democracy.”
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2025-12-02 15:35
Genocide's poisonous fruit: Worldwide loathing
TEHRAN – By perpetrating the most heinous crimes in Gaza, Israel has not only reaffirmed its status as the most detested entity on the global stage and plunged itself into even deeper isolation, but has also dragged the United States down with it—rendering Washington an object of worldwide loathing.
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2025-12-01 21:57
What Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said at his weekly briefing
TEHRAN – At his weekly press conference, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei addressed a wide range of regional and international issues — from escalating tensions in Lebanon and Gaza, to relations with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to the state of nuclear talks with Europe.
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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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2025-12-01 14:55
Venezuela: Next stop in the campaign to topple sovereign nations
TEHRAN – “The people of South America—in Venezuela and the other countries of the region—are profoundly calm by nature and deeply averse to tension and confrontation.”
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2025-11-29 20:22
Trump's airspace closure directive escalates crisis around Venezuela
U.S. President Donald Trump declared the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela "closed in its entirety," a blunt Saturday Truth Social directive to "Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers" that offered no legal basis or operational details.
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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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2025-11-28 22:19
Trump’s ‘permanent pause’ on third-world migration branded as veiled racism
U.S. President Donald Trump late Thursday announced an indefinite “permanent pause” on all immigration from what he called “Third World Countries,” a sweeping and deliberately vague decree that critics condemned as a racist, legally shaky bid to exclude migrants from the Global South.
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2025/11/28
By Xavier Villar
Araghchi: Pressure will not determine Iran’s nuclear decisions
MADRID – Abbas Araghchi’s recent interview with France 24, during his visit to Paris, provides a clear window into how Iran projects power, manages its international relations, and balances domestic interests with complex regional dynamics.
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2025-11-28 21:57
Leader: Reports of Iranian message to US ‘total lies’
June war proved Iran is a ‘center of determination and power’ unafraid of enemy saber-rattling
TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei delivered a televised speech on Thursday, addressing the Iranian nation on recent domestic, regional, and international developments.