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2025/10/29
By Xavier Villar
The architecture of deterrence
How Iranian missiles redefined the strategic threshold in West Asia
MADRID – In the logic of strategic deterrence, success is not necessarily measured by the annihilation of an adversary, but by the ability to irrevocably alter their cost calculations and redefine the boundaries of what is acceptable.
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2025-10-27 15:43
U.S. 'peace' plan reeks of blood
In his various speeches, U.S. President Donald Trump has tried to reinforce the notion that he seeks to rescue West Asia and establish peace in the region. Yet this claim is nothing more than Trump’s latest ploy to advance his own interests, because his peace vision amounts to nothing but the imposition of American will upon others.
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2025/10/26
By Xavier Villar
West Asia according to Trump: Iran as the pivot of regional strategy
MADRID – In the pantheon of U.S. foreign policy, where doctrines bearing names such as Monroe or Truman are revered, the administration of Donald Trump attempted to forge a new one: a theology of power. Not a doctrine in the classical sense, a set of principles applicable to an external, objective world—but a pseudo-faith in which order and chaos depend on the singular will of the president.
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2025-10-25 17:21
Armenian Cultural Week begins in Isfahan’s Vank Cathedral
TEHRAN—Concurrent with the beginning of the Armenian Cultural Week, the art medal of Khachatur Kesaratsi, the founder of the first printing house in Iran and West Asia, was unveiled at the Vank Church museum in New Jolfa, Isfahan, on Friday.
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2025-10-20 17:22
Holeylan Valley, historical passage of tool-making humans from 100,000 years ago
TEHRAN-Archaeological studies show that tool-making humans lived in the Holeylan Valley in Ilam province for about 100,000 years and after going through the initial stages, have achieved irrigated agriculture and livestock domestication.
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2025-10-14 16:49
Iran-China joint cultural heritage plays effective role in deepening ties
TEHRAN--Joint cultural heritage of Iran and China plays an effective role in deepening relations between the two countries and should be considered as a bridge between the hearts of the people of the two nations, said Minister of Cultural Heritage Reza Salehi-Amiri.
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2025-10-13 21:57
Iran, Israel, Arabs, and the policy of regional engagement
By Xavier Villar
MADRID – On Saturday, October 11, the publication of classified U.S. military documents by The Washington Post revealed a crucial aspect for understanding the current security dynamics in West Asia. Despite the high tensions that characterize the region and the public expressions of opposition to Israeli military operations in Gaza from many Arab states, a discreet network of military cooperation has emerged.
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2025-10-07 21:58
Situation in West Asia extremely grave due to West’s meddling, Iran UN envoy warns
TEHRAN – Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations has described the situation in West Asia as “extremely grave,” which, he says, is the result of interventionist policies and militarism by certain extraregional countries, perpetual armed conflicts and the Israeli regime’s genocide.
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2025/10/07
Operation Pahlavi: Israeli influence engineering and the defense of Iranian sovereignty
By Xavier Villar
MADRID – The modern history of Iran over the past century can largely be read as a narrative of unceasing struggle for national dignity in the face of foreign domination and attempts at fragmentation.
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2025-10-01 22:06
By Muhammad Akmal Khan
Hunting West Asia: Who is next?
ISLAMABAD – When a hunter enters the woods, he is seldom alone. Behind him march the beaters, stirring the dust, hurling stones, forcing the prey from freedom into a single, fatal path. Exhausted and terrified, the prey stumbles before the hunter’s feet, and one blow ends its life.
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2025-09-12 19:21
By Sahar Dadjoo
Exclusive: If IAEA remains politicized, safeguards system may collapse, ex-senior inspector warns
Abu Shadi calls for nuclear-weapon-free zone in West Asia, urges equal accountability for Israel
TEHRAN – Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently agreed to resume cooperation after the agency's inspectors left Iran during a U.S.-Israeli bombardment campaign on Iranian nuclear facilities in June, and were subsequently barred from re-entry.
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2025-09-12 16:54
Global tourism rises 5% in first half of 2025, UN Tourism says
TEHRAN – International tourist arrivals across the globe grew 5% in the first half of 2025 compared with the same period a year earlier, exceeding pre-pandemic levels by 4%, according to UN Tourism.
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2025-09-07 21:11
American activist sends message of support to Iranian people ahead of Gaza voyage
Kathy Greaves, an American activist from California and Virginia, is participating in the international solidarity flotilla Sumud, which set sail on September 7 with the aim of breaking the Israeli blockade of Gaza and delivering humanitarian aid, including food and medicine.
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2025-09-02 16:54
Ilam’s Chogha Golan, the oldest agricultural origin in West Asia
TEHRAN—Chogha Golan region in Mehran county, Ilam province, is the oldest cradle of agriculture across Iran and West Asia, Habibollah Mahmoudian, a specialist in prehistoric archaeology, has said.
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2025-08-09 21:45
By Muhammad Akmal Khan
Genocide in Gaza and the shifting moral axis of the West
ISLAMABAD – Never before has the rift in Western conscience over Gaza yawned so wide, so raw, so undeniable. For decades, the halls of power in Western capitals dismissed the Palestinian story of dispossession and siege as exaggeration, political theatre, or partisan noise. Yet now, the sharpest condemnations come not from Tehran’s minarets or Islamabad’s assemblies, but from within the West itself — from its own scholars, jurists, and diplomats who can no longer turn away.
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2025/07/21
By Xavier Villar
What the Persian Gulf countries learned from Iran’s war with Israel
MADRID – The recently concluded conflict between Iran and Israel—with twelve days of open hostilities—was not merely a battle between two historical antagonists.
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2025/07/16
By Xavier Villar
The 'post-Iranian Middle East' proposed by Israel
The Israeli outlook requires demolition of regional sovereignty
MADRID – At a time when stability and sovereignty have become almost existential issues countries in West Asia, Amos Yadlin’s article “The Post-Iranian Middle East,” published in Foreign Affairs, perfectly encapsulates a kind of political arrogance masked as academic analysis. Far from offering a roadmap to peace, the piece by the former Israeli general reads more like an obituary for regional autonomy.
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2025-07-07 22:44
By Xavier Villar
A look at Israel’s strategy to Balkanize Iran and why it will fail
MADRID - In West Asia’s geopolitical landscape, security rarely boils down to a purely defensive matter; above all, it is a narrative of power. Israel, shaped by a history of regional isolation and an identity forged in exceptionalism, has turned security into the lens through which it interprets every opportunity and threat. But what happens when security becomes an obsession and the central justification for all foreign policy?
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2025-06-25 19:55
Tourism in West Asia reels from fallout of 12-Day Iran-Israel War
TEHRAN - The recent 12-day military confrontation between Iran and Israel has sent shockwaves through the tourism industry of West Asia, disrupting flight routes, stranding tens of thousands of travelers, and casting uncertainty over one of the world’s most dynamic travel regions.
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2025-06-17 23:49
Condition for ending the war is destruction of Israel, not cessation of attacks
Kayhan discussed the full-scale war between Iran and Israel in an article and wrote: The war that has been started in West Asia these days is more than just a normal military conflict. A battle that will not end with a ceasefire, but only with the complete collapse of the sinister and fake structure of the Zionist regime.
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2025-06-16 22:04
Najah Mohammed Ali
The resilience of the Axis of Resistance against Zionist-American aggression
LONDON – The ongoing escalation between Iran and the child-killing occupying entity and its backers highlights Iran as a central pillar of the Axis of Resistance, leading an existential battle against Zionist and Western-American aggression. This confrontation is not merely a military conflict but a struggle for dignity and independence, embodying the will of the Islamic nation to defend its sovereignty and sacred values.
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2025-05-30 14:17
Groundbreaking discovery in northern Persian Gulf sheds new light on early human migration
TEHRAN - A major archaeological discovery in the northern hinterlands of the Persian Gulf is transforming our understanding of early human migration into Asia.
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2025-05-27 21:33
By Seyed Mehrdad BaniHashemi Kahangi
The Persian Gulf is on edge—regional powers must fix it themselves
TEHRAN – In recent months, tensions in the Persian Gulf have reentered the global spotlight—not through official declarations, but via a silent escalation playing out beneath the waves and between the straits.
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2025-05-17 21:49
Ayatollah Khamenei expounds on US president's West Asia trip
'You might not be there without US'; This is Trump's model for Arab states
TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, met with a number of teachers and educators from across the country on May 17, 2025, in the Imam Khomeini (ra) Hussainiyah.
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2025-05-14 21:03
Trump’s West Asia tour spurs more distrust with Iran after ‘deceptive’ comments
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump’s pronouncements on Iran during his ongoing West Asia tour have so far done little to help him advance a nuclear deal with the country, with Iran’s foreign minister taking to the public stage on Tuesday to call out the president’s “deception” and dishonesty.
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2025-05-05 22:58
By Jafar Yaghoubi
Pre-mortem vs. post-mortem
How US foreign policy keeps repeating its mistakes with Iran
TEHRAN – There is a fine line between intelligence and wisdom. Smart people solve problems; wise people, however, steer clear of them. While nation-states, like the U.S., are deemed to be smart in pursuit of their interests, civilization-states, such as Iran, can better be understood as wise.
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2025-04-14 21:33
By Minoo Khaleghi
West Asia is a stage for Iranian diplomacy; Muscat is the first stop
TEHRAN – In a tense regional atmosphere where diplomacy often takes a backseat to power politics, the recent indirect talks between Iran and the United States in Muscat signal a return to rationality in global equations.
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2025-04-08 22:09
Resistance Journalism course to be held in Tehran
TEHRAN- A course on Resistance Journalism will be held in Tehran in May to explore the role of colonialism in altering the borders of West Asia following World War I.
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2025-04-05 22:09
Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Uzbekistan border agreement will boost regional stability, says Iran
TEHRAN – Iran has praised a landmark agreement between Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan to officially establish the junction point of their shared borders—a move hailed as a milestone for regional cooperation and stability.
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2025/03/17
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Iran’s nuclear program: double standards of Western pressure
TEHRAN – The discussion regarding Iran’s nuclear program is once more at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy talks, with a recent article from the Wall Street Journal advocating for the total nuclear disarmament of Iran.