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2026-07-01 20:21
By Garsha Vazirian
The modern golem of Silicon Valley demands a ritual sacrifice of innocence
TEHRAN — The little boys and little girls of the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school had just settled into their morning lessons when the sky split open. It was February 28, the opening day of the American-Israeli campaign against Iran, and three Tomahawk cruise missiles, one by one, tore through the roof, collapsing concrete onto the children's desks.
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2026-06-09 20:11
By Garsha Vazirian
A blue sweater and a shoe in the bombed schoolyard
100+ days after the Pentagon vaporized a primary school in Minab, a look at the architects and accomplices behind the modern My Lai
TEHRAN — Over 100 days have passed since the missiles struck. Over 100 days of grief that does not diminish, of mothers holding schoolbooks of their martyred children, of small graves that should never have been dug.
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2026-06-07 20:18
By Ali Hamedin
General Hollywood: Pentagon’s propaganda operation on silver screen: Part 3
TEHRAN- In the previous sections, we examined the decisive influence of the DoD on the scripts of movies such as the "Iron Man" and the "Transformers" franchise. What follows is the detailed conversation of Tehran Times with Roger Stahl, professor of communication studies at the University of Georgia.
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2026-06-06 20:25
By Ali Hamedin
General Hollywood: Pentagon’s propaganda operation on silver screen: Part 2
TEHRAN-Sci-Fi cinema, and especially the superhero genre, presents an opportunity that the Pentagon would never pass up. Since these stories often contain military themes and are heavily dependent on action sequences, many superhero genre films have relied on military production assistance. Among these films are the first two installments of the "Iron Man" trilogy, the "Hulk", "Captain Marvel", and others.
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2026-06-05 20:43
By Ali Hamedin
General Hollywood: Pentagon’s propaganda operation on silver screen: Part 1
TEHRAN- “10 years from now you'll have Hollywood movies about how bombing an Iranian girls school made US soldiers sad.”
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2026-05-02 15:34
Pentagon to cut 5000 troops in Germany amid Merz’s criticism of Trump’s war on Iran
The U.S. War Department plans to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany, amid a spat between President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the war with Iran.
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2025-12-22 22:16
US faces flak at home for testing copy of Iranian drone
TEHRAN – The U.S. Navy has, for the first time, launched a long-range attack drone from a warship in the Persian Gulf. While the U.S. military hailed this as a step toward optimizing its destabilizing missions in West Asia, American media have viewed it as a sign of Washington falling behind in critical technologies.
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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.