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2025-05-30 20:55
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
46 years of economic warfare
A look at how US sanctions regime against Iran started, went on, and still persists today
TEHRAN – Economic sanctions are punitive measures imposed by one or more countries to pressure a targeted nation into changing its policies. Typically involving trade bans, asset freezes, and financial restrictions, sanctions are framed as a "peaceful" alternative to war. Yet in reality, they inflict severe suffering on ordinary people while often failing to achieve their political goals.
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2025-04-08 22:00
The day Carter broke US ties with Iran
TEHRAN – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter severed his country’s diplomatic relations with Iran on April 7, 1980.
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2025-02-05 15:33
Who controls the Panama Canal?
President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to regain U.S. ownership of the Panama Canal, which the United States previously controlled until a treaty transferred full ownership to Panama in 1999. Trump’s bluntly stated desire, alongside comments he has made about acquiring Greenland, would violate the international principle of sovereignty and decades of U.S. foreign policy norms if translated into action. The canal facilitates hundreds of billions of dollars of trade each year. It is a central point for international commerce, vital to U.S. supply chains, and critical to Panama’s standing as a regional trade hub. Yet, China’s growing commercial ties to Panama and the region have fueled U.S. concerns about Beijing’s broader role in global shipping and port operations.
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2024-12-30 22:46
By Shahrokh Saei
Jimmy Carter: Architect of normalizing Arab ties with apartheid Israel
TEHRAN- As Americans mourn the death of former president Jimmy Carter, the disastrous impacts of his legacy, particularly in the Middle East are thrust into the limelight.
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2023-07-23 19:43
By Mona Hojat
From Carter to Biden, American presidents owe Iran an apology
TEHRAN – Writing an opinion piece in the Newsweek on July 18, Lisa Daftari naively credits Jimmy Carter for the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and believes that the 98-year-old who served as the 39th president of the United States owes the Iranian people an “apology”.
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2023-02-08 20:09
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
The Islamic Revolution at 44: Thwarting the capitalist contagion of western secular democracy
“The tyrannies, transgressions and arrogance of Alexanders and Genghises which in the past they perpetrated by force, nowadays the powerful and civilized democracies of the world collectively impose on the weaker nations.”— Allamah Seyyed Mohammad Hosayn Tabataba’i
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2023-01-09 21:35
Carter ordered CIA to topple Islamic Republic 10 months after the revolution: document
TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Monday that based on a credible American institute 10 months after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Jimmy Carter ordered CIA director Stansfield Turner to topple the Islamic Republic system.