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2025-12-17 21:57
US bases on Iran’s target list in event of war
Araghchi says Iran seeks to avoid conflict but is prepared to strike
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says that should a war break out with the United States, and should the United States attack Iran’s nuclear facilities again, then Washington should expect Iran to strike American bases wherever they might be.
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2025-12-16 16:54
Khazineh valley, marvel of nature in Lorestan
TEHRAN--Khazineh valley is midway between Pol Dokhtar-Andimeshk Road, in western Iran, next to a village by the same name. It has undergone erosion with the passage of time and taken its current shape after many peaks and troughs.
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2025-12-15 19:39
The collapse of Western moral hegemony
TEHRAN – In one of the most pivotal junctures of global politics in this decade, Israel’s war on Gaza has emerged not merely as a humanitarian catastrophe, but as a historical mirror reflecting the precipitous collapse of legitimacy for traditional international powers.
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2025/12/14
By Xavier Villar
Israel’s misstep and the resilience of Iran’s strategic autonomy
MADRID – Few disclosures in West Asia carry as much weight as an admission of intelligence failure, particularly when it comes from an apparatus long celebrated for its carefully cultivated aura of omniscience.
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2025-12-13 21:58
By Mohammad Khatibi
Expert says Chinese investment in Iran difficult under sanctions, but possible with determination
TEHRAN – In the midst of intensifying regional tensions and the enduring weight of Western sanctions, the future of China–Iran relations remains a subject of growing international interest. To better understand the dynamics shaping Beijing’s approach to Iran, The Tehran Times spoke with Professor Hongda Fan, director of the China–Middle East Center at Shaoxing University.
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2025/12/08
By Fatemeh Kavand
Geopolitical opportunities for Iran in light of West’s structural challenges
The contemporary world is undergoing a transition from a unipolar order toward a multi-centered one—an order in which power is distributed among numerous actors, and the ability of states to influence global affairs increasingly depends on their geopolitical capacities, deterrent power, strategic independence, and their capability to shape their regional environment.
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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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2025/12/06
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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2025/11/29
By Xavier Villar
Iran and the strategic reconfiguration of West Asia
MADRID – The offensive of October 7, 2023, was far more than just another episode in the long-standing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It was a seismic event that shattered the foundations of the existing regional order, triggering a chain of developments that have redefined alliances, security doctrines, and the balance of power.
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2025-11-19 22:33
By Mohammad Javad Arvili, Iranian Writer and Journalist
Oman marks National Day with celebration of stability and distinct national identity
Each year on this day, the Sultanate of Oman pauses before a sweeping historical canvas, commemorating the founding of the Al Bu Said state 281 years ago — the state that laid the foundations of a stable, prosperous, and regionally influential nation.
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2025-11-01 21:44
By Fatemeh Kavand
What the West fails to understand about Iran
The recent article published by the American magazine The Atlantic, titled “In Iran, Anything Can Happen,” once again reflects the same biased and colonial gaze that the West has long held toward Iran and its people.
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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.