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2025-11-02 20:48
By Habib Ahmadzadeh
Peace by force and Trump’s inverted world order
TEHRAN – Think about how, over the past fifty years, Western leaders—especially in Europe—have repeatedly shouted “democracy” and “no to violence.”
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2025-10-28 17:49
By Shahab Sarmadi
Israel’s war excuses expose the sham Gaza ceasefire
TEHRAN – Israel is making excuses to restart full war on Gaza. This shows that U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire was never a real peace plan—it was just a cover for the goals of Washington and Tel Aviv.
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2025-10-22 18:09
By Wesam Bahrani
Will Netanyahu resume Gaza genocide?
TEHRAN – The New York Times reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could end the Gaza ceasefire and return to the genocidal war against Palestinians.
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2025-10-22 15:58
By Shahab Sarmadi
Vance-Netanyahu talks expose US-Israel maneuvers in Gaza
TEHRAN – US President Donald Trump has publicly declared that his administration’s priority is to end the war in Gaza through a ceasefire. His message has been framed as an effort to stop further escalation, but the visit of Vice President JD Vance to Jerusalem (al-Quds), where he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shows that the ceasefire is also being used as a political tool to protect Israel and reshape regional alliances.
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2025-10-21 16:34
Canada PM vows to detain Netanyahu if he sets foot on Canadian soil
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that Canada will enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the Israeli leader travels to Canadian territory — a declaration that fuses Ottawa’s recent diplomatic shift with months of grassroots pressure.
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2025-10-20 19:36
Lapid blasts Netanyahu’s ‘government of extremists and the negligent’ over Gaza chaos
As Gaza reels from Israeli airstrikes that have claimed nearly 100 Palestinian lives after the October ceasefire, opposition leader Yair Lapid unleashed a searing indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, blaming it for sabotaging a fragile truce and inadvertently strengthening Palestinian resolve through erratic aid manipulations.
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2025-10-19 19:44
By Sahar Dadjoo
Despite hunger and trauma, reporters keep Gaza’s story alive: CPJ regional director
Sara Qudah says resilience of journalists in Gaza is nothing short of extraordinary
TEHRAN – Despite the recent Gaza ceasefire, the situation for Palestinian journalists remains tragic. Newsrooms lie in ruins, dozens of reporters are displaced or detained, and access for international media continues to be completely blocked by Israel.
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2025-10-18 19:58
By Garsha Vazirian
Israel’s forced retreat marketed as ‘victory’
When ‘winning’ becomes losing ground — legally, diplomatically, and morally
TEHRAN – “Israel has won all they can by force of arms. You’ve won. I mean, you’ve won.”
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2025-10-11 21:38
Nobel Peace Prize 2025: A fusion of dynamite’s memory, fresh genocide, and coup dream
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
TEHRAN – For years, many have argued that the Nobel Peace Prize has become a tool of Western states, used to promote opposition figures capable of replacing governments at odds with the West.
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2025-10-10 21:07
By Sahar Dadjoo
Gaza breathes
Displaced Gazans start returning to the north amid uncertain peace
TEHRAN - After two harrowing years of conflict that devastated Gaza and shook the Middle East, a tentative ceasefire has been announced, outlining a phased military withdrawal from the coastal enclave and promising the release of captives and Palestinian prisoners.
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2025-10-07 21:41
By Mona Hojat Ansari
Fool me once
Americans grill Netanyahu on social media after he suggests Iran could attack Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort
TEHRAN – Recent remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggesting that Tehran is preparing to attack U.S. soil has alarmed American citizens — though probably not for the reasons the Israeli leader had hoped for.
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2025-09-30 20:18
By staff writer
Peace plan or disaster plot
Inside Trump's 20-point proposal to end the Gaza war
TEHRAN – Nearly two years into its genocidal war on Gaza, Israel backed by the United States finds itself at a stalemate. Despite relentless military campaigns, Gaza’s resistance groups remain active, their networks weakened but far from defeated. The battlefield has failed to deliver the decisive victory Israel had hoped for, and a new strategy is now emerging.
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2025-09-30 16:26
Netanyahu vows Israeli forces will not leave Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised on Tuesday that Israeli forces will not be leaving Gaza, despite references to their withdrawal in the Donald Trump-approved "peace plan", according to the Middle East Eye.
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2025-09-30 14:46
Israel’s edits shaped Trump’s Gaza plan, limiting Palestinian sovereignty: Report
Israel helped shape the Trump plan, according to The Wall Street Journal's report on Tuesday, and pushed for several amendments that appeared in the final draft presented to Arab mediators.
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2025-09-28 19:10
Netanyahu’s framing of social media as 'weapon' triggers outrage
“Weapons change over time; the most important one is social media,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. podcasters and TikTok creators at Israel’s New York consulate on Friday, adding that TikTok is “the most important purchase going on right now.”
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2025-09-28 16:46
Israel counts 77 absences during Netanyahu’s UN address, highlighting isolation
Israel tallied 77 delegations absent or walking out during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 41-minute UN address—including neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, and regional powers such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, alongside Spain, Brazil, South Africa, and Ireland.
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2025-09-27 19:57
Iraq dismisses Netanyahu’s threats
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he threatened to target what he called “militias” in Iraq.
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2025-09-27 19:50
By Wesam Bahrani
Netanyahu “alone” blocking ceasefire deal
TEHRAN – Hamas has reiterated its readiness for a ceasefire deal to end the genocide while emphasizing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the only obstruction to peace.
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2025-09-26 21:41
By Garsha Vazirian
Protests and walkouts eclipse Netanyahu’s UN appearance
TEHRAN – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday was an attempt at a carefully staged and combative defense of Israel’s aggressive campaign in Gaza and its wider military actions across the region. Yet the performance could not mask the widening gulf between his narrative and the findings of international institutions, public-health agencies, and human-rights organizations.
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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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2025-09-16 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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2025-09-15 21:55
Netanyahu to reroute US flight as ICC warrant narrows his world
Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to New York next week with a pared-down delegation and a longer route aboard the so-called Wing of Zion, avoiding airspace where ICC politics could complicate overflight—and, in an emergency, force a landing in a state obliged to arrest him.
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2025-09-13 20:10
If Palestine can’t win, many principles are at stake,” says Italian activist on Sumud flotilla
Claudio, a volunteer from Sicily, says solidarity with Gaza is a continuation of historic liberation struggles
TEHRAN- The Sumud flotilla has brought together volunteers and sailing boats from across the Mediterranean, aiming to challenge Israel’s blockade and deliver solidarity to Gaza. From Italy, dozens of boats are preparing to set sail. Among them is Claudio, an Italian activist from Sicily affiliated with the International Solidarity Movement, who shared his perspective with the Tehran Times in Tunis.
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2025-09-05 19:31
By staff writer
Shifting US political landscape threatens Israel’s traditional congressional influence
TEHRAN - In late August 2025, Donald Trump gave an interview to the Daily Caller, which stirred great debate regarding shifts in the political U.S. support for Israel and the diminution in power of the American pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. Congress.
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2025-08-26 19:09
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Why did Netanyahu praise the Lebanese government's decision?
BEIRUT—The Lebanese government has not yet commented on the commendatory statement issued by the Israeli Prime Minister's Office regarding the decision to disarm the Resistance, which can only be viewed as an expression of a coordinated strategic course planned against Lebanon.
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2025-08-23 14:27
By Silvina Pachelo
Argentina's Jewish Call leads demand for Netanyahu's arrest over Gaza war crimes
BUENOS AIRES — Jorge Norberto Elbaum is one of the most candid and insightful voices within the Argentine Jewish community. A sociologist, journalist, and researcher, he was the first president of the Argentine Jewish Call (Llamamiento Argentino Judío) and served as an ambassador for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
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2025-08-20 14:37
Trump hails ICC‑wanted Netanyahu as 'war hero' while Gaza bleeds
U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly hailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “war hero” — despite Netanyahu being wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in Gaza, where Palestinians are enduring one of the worst humanitarian crises in decades.
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2025-08-20 14:37
Macron hits back at ‘abject’, ‘erroneous’ anti-Semitism accusations by Netanyahu
A diplomatic row between Israel and France has broken out after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused French President Emmanuel Macron of fueling “the anti-Semitic fire” in France by planning to recognize Palestinian statehood, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.
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2025/08/19
By Habib Ahmadzadeh
A word to the unrivalled philanthropists of our time: Melania and Netanyahu
TEHRAN - When I was a teenager, I read Bleak House by Charles Dickens. In that story, there was a woman who thought about children in Africa but never looked at her own children and did not meet their needs.
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2025-08-18 15:06
Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns Netanyahu’s ‘provocative’ West Bank visit
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned what it describes as a “provocative colonial incursion” by Netanyahu into the illegal Ofra settlement in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.