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Today 19:22
Eurovision exposes ethical erosion
TEHRAN – The European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) decision to allow Israel into the 2025 Eurovision contest has triggered a wave of condemnation. The Swiss winner of 2024 announced they would return their trophy, arguing that Eurovision’s stated values of “unity, inclusion and dignity for all” are fundamentally at odds with Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza.
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Today 18:44
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Israel’s aggressive blueprint: A rebuttal to Lebanon’s pro-Israel propaganda
BEIRUT—In early December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again peeled back the last veneer of diplomatic pretence.
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Today 18:38
By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza truce at a crossroads
TEHRAN – Growing international pressure and unexpectedly strong Palestinian compliance are reshaping calculations around advancing the Gaza truce.
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Today 17:05
Tucker Carlson condemns ‘abominable’ human cost in Gaza after visiting maimed children
TEHRAN – In a landmark episode of The Tucker Carlson Show released Thursday, prominent media personality and political commentator Tucker Carlson issued his most blistering condemnation to date of the ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
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Today 17:00
Israel launches heavy strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon in new ceasefire violation
In another ceasefire violation, the Israeli military carried out heavy attacks on southern and eastern Lebanon on Friday, claiming in a statement that it struck Hezbollah military infrastructure and a “training camp,” The Cradle reported.
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2025-12-10 19:19
By Garsha Vazirian
The traitor’s grave buries Israel’s proxy dream in Gaza
How Abu Shabab’s downfall exposes the limits of imposed governance and the resilience of social legitimacy
TEHRAN – When the ISIS-linked Yasser Abu Shabab fell, Israel lost more than a proxy commander. Tel Aviv saw its “day after” blueprint for Gaza shaken at the roots.
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2025-12-10 18:43
By Wesam Bahrani
How Israel benefits from Gaza destruction
TEHRAN – Hamas has warned that Zionist regime’s violations are preventing the truce from advancing to its crucial second phase.
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2025-12-09 22:21
Iranian court begins hearings for Mossad agent arrested in June war
TEHRAN – Iranian judicial officials say a court in Alborz Province has opened proceedings against a dual national charged with spying for Israel during the June Israeli-U.S. offensive against Iran.
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2025-12-09 22:17
By Sondoss Al Asaad
From Oracle to Starlink: Lebanon’s security sovereignty in the wind
BEIRUT — Lebanon has always lived in the crossfire of regional conflicts, but rarely has its digital sovereignty been placed so casually on the negotiating table.
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2025-12-09 22:13
By Wesam Bahrani
How Israel trampled on human rights in Gaza
TEHRAN – Gaza has been subjected to the harshest forms of collective punishment in modern history, measures that grossly violate international law and amount to war crimes.
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2025-12-09 22:04
By Sahar Dadjoo
Iran’s stand in the 12-day war undermined U.S.-Israeli strategy, says Philippine scholar
Julkipli Wadi warns that as Israel widens its aggression, Iran’s resilience signals a new regional momentum.
TEHRAN – At the sidelines of the Conference on “People’s Rights and Legitimate Freedoms in the Thoughts of Ayatollah Khamenei,” the Tehran Times spoke with Professor Julkipli Wadi of the University of the Philippines to examine the conference’s intellectual significance, the current crisis of international law, and Iran’s evolving role in regional security.
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2025-12-09 20:07
By Shahrokh Saei
Is Israel’s mirage of victory in Gaza fading?
TEHRAN – More than two years after Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, the outcome is undeniable: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to “destroy Hamas” has failed.
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2025-12-09 19:26
Israel violates Lebanon ceasefire again, unleashing heavy airstrikes and ground demolitions
TEHRAN — Israeli warplanes unleashed a heavy barrage across southern Lebanon late Monday into Tuesday, hammering Jabal Safi, the valley between Azza and Roumine, and multiple sites in Iqlim al-Tuffah.
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2025-12-09 19:24
Israeli forces detain eight Palestinians in overnight raids across northern West Bank
Israeli occupation forces carried out fresh overnight raids across the northern West Bank, detaining eight Palestinians from the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, and from the Old Askar refugee camp to the east, Middle East Eye reported Tuesday.
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2025-12-09 16:29
Blair dropped from leading Trump’s Gaza board after regional objections
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been removed from consideration to lead U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed “board of peace” in Gaza, the Financial Times revealed, following objections raised by several Arab and Muslim states.
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2025-12-09 15:29
Israel killed nearly half of all journalists slain globally, new report confirms
A new report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Tuesday confirms that 67 journalists were killed worldwide between December 1, 2024, and December 1, 2025, nearly half of them in the Gaza Strip, where they were killed by Israeli forces.
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2025-12-08 22:00
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon faces a choice between real power and foreign illusions
BEIRUT—Lebanon’s political and security landscape has long been defined by a paradox: the nation’s true defenders often operate outside formal institutions, while the official state struggles to assert authority, maintain sovereignty, or protect its people.
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2025-12-08 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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2025-12-08 17:23
Netanyahu secretly plotted with Tony Blair to impose foreign occupation on Gaza: Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly held a clandestine meeting with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss a new foreign-administered framework for governing the Gaza Strip, Al Mayadeen reported Monday, citing the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN).
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2025-12-08 16:18
Israel won’t relinquish newly occupied Syrian territory near Damascus, Netanyahu says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his military will not withdraw from territories it occupied in southern Syria, Anadolu reported Monday.
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2025-12-07 21:54
After 'war on global technology,' Iran pushes for advanced stealth missiles
TEHRAN - The commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has declared that enhancing the country's stealth-missile technology is a critical priority. He also issued a warning that any new Israeli aggression would be met with a response more severe than ever before.
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2025/12/07
By Xavier Villar
The colonial reconfiguration: Israel and the extinction of sovereignty in West Asia
MADRID – In the conventional diplomatic lexicon, “normalization” is typically framed as an intrinsic good: the peaceful acceptance of a state within recognized borders, integrated into the regional economic and security architecture. It is a term that evokes closure and resolution.
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2025-12-07 21:40
By staff writer
Merz’s appeasement of Netanyahu will only embolden war criminals
TEHRAN - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Israel for the first time since taking office in May. Merz’s visit comes just days after Germany decided to lift a three-month suspension on arms exports to Israel.
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2025-12-07 20:25
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon’s neutrality debate in a shifting regional context
BEIRUT — Let’s try, for a moment, to imagine a Lebanon where words mean what they say. In that alternate universe, “neutrality” would imply rejecting foreign meddling of any kind, “interference” would refer to bombing residential areas, and “sovereignty” might include the radical notion of objecting to drones overhead.
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2025-12-07 18:51
By Wesam Bahrani
The future of armed resistance in Gaza
TEHRAN – The Palestinian resistance in Gaza faces a precarious period between flimsy ceasefires and ongoing aggression.
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2025-12-07 18:14
Handala names Iron Dome architects in devastating leak
TEHRAN – In another operation in its cyber campaign against Israel’s military establishment, the pro-Palestine hacking collective Handala has published the detailed identities of what it calls the “main architects” of the Iron Dome missile defense system.
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2025-12-07 15:21
Hamas signals readiness to place arms under Palestinian state authority
Hamas said Saturday it was ready to hand over its weapons in the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian authority governing the territory on the condition that the Israeli army's occupation ends, AFP reported Saturday.
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2025-12-07 15:20
Israel committed 57 assaults on Palestinian journalists in November alone
Israeli forces and illegal settlers committed 57 violations and assaults against journalists in the occupied West Bank and Gaza in November, Anadolu reported Sunday, citing the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS).
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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 22:45
Terrorists arrested before Tehran metro bombing; trainer a ‘NATO officer’ residing in Sweden
TEHRAN – A number of individuals in Iran, receiving funds and training out of Europe, were arrested by intelligence forces before they could carry out the terrorist operations they had been instructed to conduct, which included the bombing of Tehran’s vast metro station, the killing of police and security forces, and the murder of random civilians.