normalization

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  • Ahmad al-Sharaa stands atop Mount Qasioun, overlooking Damascus as smoke rises during the city’s fall in December 2024 2025-12-31 19:34

    By Garsha Vazirian

    The anatomy of a broken Syria and the mirage of sovereignty

    How al-Sharaa has failed to secure Syria against relentless Israeli aggression and internal rot

    TEHRAN – More than a year after the collapse of the al-Assad government in December 2024, the “New Syria” has proved to be a cruel mirage.

  • Netanyahu 2025-11-21 19:45

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Netanyahu slams Palestinian sovereignty shut despite Saudi normalization lure

    TEHRAN – Israel reiterated its refusal to allow a Palestinian state, insisting that “even if” ties with Saudi Arabia are normalized, statehood remains off-limits. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a November 20 interview that it “is not on the table for me.”

  • US President Donald Trump and other world leaders pose for a group photograph at the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on October 13, 2025. (Evan Vucci / POOL / AFP) 2025-11-16 18:53

    By Shahrokh Saei 

    Decoding the deception: How Trump’s ceasefire blocks Palestinian statehood

    TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan for Gaza has been promoted as a pathway to Palestinian self-determination and eventual statehood. Yet Israeli officials have made clear that such statehood will never be accepted, exposing the truce plan as a diplomatic pretense designed to advance U.S. and Israeli agendas under the guise of peace.

  • Smotrich and camels 2025-10-24 15:33

    ‘Keep riding camels:’ Israeli minister’s racist jibe at Saudi normalization terms sparks outrage

    Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich dismissed Saudi Arabia’s presumed demand for Palestinian statehood as a precondition for normalization on Thursday, sneering at a Tzomet Institute conference that the kingdom should “keep riding camels in the Saudi desert” while Israel “innovates.”

  • Israeli flag burning 2025-10-18 16:13

    A cancerous tumor does not become ‘normal’

    TEHRAN – Normalization is not merely reopening an embassy, resuming direct flights, a few handshake photos, or a handful of diplomatic signatures.

  • Trump met al-Shara in Riyadh in mid-May and vowed to lift sanctions on Syria 2025-07-09 16:17

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Normalization process between Syria and Israel accelerating

    BEIRUT — Israeli i24news revealed that an upcoming meeting in September—sponsored by President Donald Trump at the White House—will bring together Abu Muhammad al-Julani, Syria’s self-appointed president (currently known as Ahmed al-Sharaa), with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sign a security agreement that will pave the way for a “peace” agreement.

  • The Lebanese cabinet 2025-06-30 22:15

    By Sondos Al-Asaad

    Why is Washington pressing Lebanon to put Hezbollah weapons to vote in cabinet?

    BEIRUT — Israel’s Channel 14 revealed a U.S. plan that “is not unlikely to materialize” to drag Arab and Islamic countries into normalization with the Israeli entity within a year at the latest.

  • سوریه 2025-06-22 22:14

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Best time for US to impose normalization between Damascus and Tel Aviv

    BEIRUT — During a Security Council session on Syria, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea called on the Syrian government to take a series of political and security steps, most notably initiating talks with the Israeli entity.