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2025-09-21 20:03
By Shahrokh Saei
Palestine recognition: A charm offensive or genuine shift?
Canada, Australia, and Britain recognize Palestinian statehood amid rising public pressure
TEHRAN – The recognition of Palestine as an independent state by several other Western countries marks a significant milestone, underscoring the enduring resilience and steadfast resistance of the Palestinian people amid ongoing Israeli brutality. However, this diplomatic shift appears driven less by genuine humanitarian concern and more by mounting domestic and international pressure.
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2025-09-21 16:29
New Italy-based flotilla to join Sumud sailing for Gaza
The International Committee for Breaking the Siege of Gaza announced Sunday that a new wave of ships will set sail from southern Italy next Wednesday to challenge the blockade of the Palestinian enclave, adding to the efforts of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
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2025-09-21 14:54
Trump threatens Kabul over Bagram demand as Taliban rejects US return
U.S. President Donald Trump warned Sunday that “BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!” unless Afghanistan “gives back” Bagram Air Base, also telling reporters the U.S. wants it “right away” and linking its value to proximity to western China.
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2025-09-20 20:04
Portugal to officially recognize Palestine Sunday
Lisbon has announced it will officially recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday, ahead of a high-level conference at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
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2025-09-20 20:03
MI6 admits covert links to HTS during Syria’s regime change
The outgoing chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Richard Moore, has confirmed that London maintained clandestine communications with the extremist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) before the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
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2025-09-20 19:19
Former New Zealand PM calls Gaza war ‘genocide’
New Zealand’s former prime minister Jacinda Ardern has called on “those with power” to take action in the face of the ongoing “genocide" in Gaza.
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2025-09-20 18:50
CPJ condemns ‘unprecedented massacre of journalists’ in Yemen by Israel
Israeli attacks on two newspaper offices in Yemen earlier this month killed 31 journalists, making it the second deadliest attack on the press ever recorded by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-09-20 18:34
By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza war crimes intensify
TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime is escalating its atrocities against civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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2025-09-20 18:32
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Why did Hezbollah chief call on Riyadh to open ‘new page’ with the Resistance?
BEIRUT — In a pivotal development, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem on Friday urged Saudi Arabia to turn a “new page” with the Resistance movements amid rising Israeli aggression that now extends to Qatar.
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2025-09-20 18:24
By staff writer
Fueling 'Greater Israel' with US arms
TEHRAN – The United States’ reported plan to sell billions of dollars in additional weapons to Israel clearly shows that Washington is encouraging Tel Aviv to advance its “Greater Israel” vision.
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2025-09-20 16:15
Sumud Flotilla activists defy threats to break Israel’s Gaza blockade
After a night of storms, shafts of sunlight revealed a compact armada of more than 50 vessels in Tunis — the Global Sumud Flotilla — loaded with food, medical supplies, and volunteers from over 40 countries preparing to steam toward Gaza to challenge Israel’s long-running naval blockade.
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2025-09-20 16:14
Gaza reels after Israeli strikes kill over 50, including children in school-turned-shelter
At least 51 Palestinians were killed on Saturday, including 43 in Gaza City, as Israeli forces intensified their assault on the besieged enclave.
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2025-09-19 19:53
Hezbollah calls for unity against “Greater Israel” vision
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem on Friday called on the opponent political parties in Lebanon as well as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to start a new phase of cooperation in the face of the Zionist expansionist scheme which targets the entire region, Al-Manar reported.
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2025-09-19 19:41
By Mohammad Mahdizadeh, Iranian expert in international military history
Ibrahim Aghil: The architect of ‘Hezbollah military doctrine’
TEHRAN – It has been one year since the assassination of General Hajj Ibrahim Aghil, Hezbollah’s operations chief, along with 14 of his comrades and fellow officers in an Israeli air raid on the southern suburb of Beirut (Dahia).
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2025-09-19 19:32
By Wesam Bahrani
Israeli officers killed in Gaza
TEHRAN – The Israeli army has confirmed the deaths of four officers in battles in the Gaza Strip as the armed wing of Hamas issues a stern warning.
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2025-09-19 19:22
By Garsha Vazirian
Gaza offensive reaches ‘cataclysmic’ scale as US shields Israel at UN
TEHRAN – Israeli forces have intensified their offensive on Gaza City, unleashing a combination of airstrikes, drone attacks, and ground assaults that have left neighborhoods in ruins.
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2025-09-19 19:22
By Sahar Dadjoo
Exclusive: EU bans on Israel remain symbolic, says Swedish university scholar
Ashok Swain says public outrage from European capitals forced Brussels to act
TEHRAN - As tensions in Gaza and the West Bank escalate, the European Union has taken an unprecedented step by proposing the suspension of trade concessions with Israel, signaling growing international concern over the humanitarian crisis. The move comes amid widespread protests across European capitals, raising questions about the effectiveness of symbolic sanctions versus tangible political pressure.
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2025-09-19 16:53
Trump threatens TV networks amid Jimmy Kimmel fallout
US President Donald Trump has suggested some TV networks should have their licences "taken away", the BBC reported.
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2025-09-19 16:19
Pakistan says its nuclear program can be made available to Saudi Arabia under defense pact
Pakistan’s defense minister says his nation’s nuclear program “will be made available” to Saudi Arabia if needed under the countries’ new defense pact, marking the first specific acknowledgment that Islamabad had put the kingdom under its nuclear umbrella, AP reported.
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2025-09-19 15:57
Taliban official rejects US return to Bagram airbase
Afghanistan has rejected a call from President Donald Trump for the United States military to return to the country and reclaim the Bagram airbase, Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-09-19 14:36
Seyed Parsa Alavi, journalist
Recognizing Palestine within two-state framework can serve as prelude to reclaim Palestinian land
TEHRAN - The question of Palestine is one of the oldest and most complex political conflicts of the modern era—shaping not only the Middle East but also the broader international order for more than seventy years.
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2025-09-17 21:28
By Professor Hossein Askari
Arab rulers: When did you lose your dignity?
It’s high time to stand up for your people and protect their land!
PORTLAND - Persian Gulf Arabs, what are your unelected rulers scared of? They have put all their eggs in the US basket and are ineptly trying to protect their ill-gotten wealth and to cling onto power. Instead of subservience to neo-colonialists such as the US, they should stand tall and work only to benefit you and your future generations.
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2025-09-17 20:21
Tel Aviv’s wars fuel decline in immigration to Israel, surge in emigration
Around 79,000 Israelis left Israel last year, a figure significantly up from a year earlier, amid rising regional tensions over Tel Aviv’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.
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2025-09-17 19:40
Protesters in London: ‘We charge you with genocide’ in Gaza
‘Stop Trump, stop fascism’
Protesters gathered outside BBC headquarters in London on Wednesday to demonstrate against Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK.
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2025-09-17 19:33
EU proposes suspension of trade concessions with Israel over Gaza war
The European Commission, the European Union’s main executive body, presented a much-anticipated and delayed proposal to “suspend certain trade-related provisions of the Association Agreement between the EU and Israel” in response to Israel’s war on Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-09-17 18:38
By Muhammad Akmal Khan
The UN crumbles as Gaza burns
ISLAMABAD - For around eight decades, Palestine has been the world’s question that won’t be answered; a place where justice claims have been examined and found wanting. The UN Charter, which was born after the devastation of the World War II, committed to peace, equality and protection for the oppressed.
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2025-09-17 18:29
By staff writer
Global backlash grows over Israel’s ground incursion in Gaza City
TEHRAN – Israel is pressing forward with its full-scale ground invasion of Gaza City following a period of intense bombardment, sparking widespread international backlash.
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2025-09-17 18:28
By Wesam Bahrani
Yemeni missile forces Netanyahu's plane to make ‘emergency landing’
TEHRAN – Yemen announces new operations against the Israeli occupation regime in response to the Gaza genocide and the regime’s ongoing aggression against the country.
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2025-09-16 21:44
By staff writer
Regional alliance crucial to counter Israel
TEHRAN - Last Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced that his country had accepted the U.S. ceasefire proposal to end the war in Gaza. The very next day, Israel attempted to assassinate Hamas leaders while they were in Qatar’s capital to discuss that same proposal.
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2025-09-16 20:23
Air defenses 'caused great confusion' during Israeli raids on Hodeidah, Yemen says
Israel launched at least 12 airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port on Tuesday, the latest in a campaign targeting Yemeni civilian sites and infrastructure.