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2026-02-24 23:21
Dutch diplomat flees Iran after Tehran airport seizes luggage containing spy devices
TEHRAN – A senior Dutch diplomat abruptly departed Iran before authorities could inspect his luggage, which was later found to contain communications equipment associated with espionage. The incident occurred in January, as Iran was reeling from deadly unrest that was fueled by CIA and Mossad operatives, leaving more than 2,500 civilians and security forces dead.
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2026-02-24 19:21
Epstein scandal goes far beyond one man, says American journalist
Christopher Helali says focusing on Epstein alone obscures deeper structures of power
TEHRAN- The Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to generate headlines as new documents are unsealed, yet fundamental questions about accountability, power, and institutional complicity remain unanswered. While the case is often framed as a series of horrific but isolated criminal acts, critics argue that such a narrow focus obscures a far deeper political and structural reality.
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2026-02-21 19:33
Iran FM asks for evidence as West repeats casualty lies to justify future aggression
TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has asked Western officials and Western media to stop lying about the number of deaths during the recent unrest in the country—unrest that began with legitimate economic protests in late December but was infiltrated in January by armed Mossad and CIA agents who laid waste to Iranian cities and killed security forces and civilians alike.
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2026-02-16 19:32
By Shadi Afzoonmanesh
Toronto's 'bomb Iran' rally sparks shock, fear, and outrage
TEHRAN - “I can't believe this is real,” wrote one Canadian citizen reacting to protests that took place in Toronto on Saturday. The demonstrations were not those of the famous truckers who flocked to the streets in 2022 protesting COVID mandate measures, nor were they the popular protests that have occurred several times since 2023, demanding Israel cease its killing of Palestinians in Gaza.
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2026-02-04 23:03
By Staff Writer
US poised to return to the negotiating table it bombed in June
Iranians offer Trump another chance after regional countries step in
TEHRAN – Iranians have agreed to give diplomacy with the United States another chance after at least seven regional countries urged Tehran in calls with President Masoud Pezeshkian to set aside Washington’s long record of bad faith and pursue talks.
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2026-01-30 14:15
A Familiar Signature
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2026-01-23 20:25
IRGC intelligence arm foiled recent US-Israeli plot against Iran: statement
TEHRAN - Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says part of the recent large-scale Israeli-American conspiracy against the Islamic Republic of Iran ended in failure thanks to the preparedness of the country’s security forces and the vigilance of the people.
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2026-01-17 19:39
Public tip-offs aid arrest of 3,000+ in terror network crackdown
Intelligence operations continue to surge days after short but deadly riots backed by US and Israel
TEHRAN – Extensive intelligence operations have so far resulted in the detention of over 3,000 individuals, including armed terrorists responsible for killings, criminal gangs, youth instigating vandalism, and key figures linking them all to foreign spy agencies and incentivizing participation in the deadly riots that struck Iran on January 8 and 9.
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2025-12-03 20:23
By Garsha Vazirian
The empire’s orphan strikes back
A tragedy forged in CIA’s narco-empire has been weaponized for a technocratic police state
TEHRAN – Amid a bitter clash over Trump’s attempt to federalize the National Guard, Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly opened fire outside a D.C. recruitment center on November 26, killing one soldier and critically wounding another.
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2025-10-27 20:39
Venezuela warns of CIA false flag amid U.S. military drills in the Caribbean
In a statement on Monday, the Venezuelan government denounced U.S.-Southern Command–coordinated exercises with Trinidad and Tobago from October 26–30 as a hostile provocation that imperils stability across the Caribbean.
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2025-10-21 18:50
The Guardian exclusive: CIA plays key role in US strikes in the Caribbean
The Central Intelligence Agency is providing the bulk of the intelligence used to carry out the controversial lethal air strikes by the Trump administration against small, fast-going boats in the Caribbean Sea suspected of carrying drugs from Venezuela, according to three sources familiar with the operations, the Guardian reported.
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2025-10-17 17:58
Maduro blasts ‘open conspiracy’ as Trump confirms CIA directive to targeting Venezuela
Venezuela on Thursday stepped up its diplomatic push against Washington, formally asking the UN Security Council to declare recent U.S. strikes in the southern Caribbean illegal and to condemn what Caracas calls an unprecedented authorization for the CIA to carry out covert lethal operations against the country.
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2025-10-05 21:55
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
A ‘revolution’ pursued by bots
With very few supporters inside or outside Iran, opposition figures use AI-enabled operations to incite revolt
TEHRAN – On June 16th, an X user shared an AI-generated picture of the deposed Shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, seated on a throne, and said, "He will bring Iran freedom and prosperity!" His father, Mohammad Reza Shah, fled Iran twice during his reign: first, when the MI6 and CIA were conspiring to overthrow the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mosaddegh in 1953, and a second time, when he admitted hearing "the voice" of the people's revolution in January 1979.
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2025/08/19
By Mahmoud Zekavat
An unjustifiable coup
A re-examination of the 1953 coup in Iran
TEHRAN – Simplified, popular narratives often make history shallow, sterile, and politically charged. These oversimplifications wrap around historical events and figures, preventing a clear understanding and often twisting the truth with clichés.
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2025-04-11 21:26
AIPAC leader boasts of special ‘access’ to top Trump national security officials in leaked audio
The Grayzone has obtained audio of an off-the-record session from the 2025 Congressional Summit of AIPAC, the main US lobbying arm of Israel.
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2025-03-16 22:30
By Sheida Sabzehvari
Inside the MEK: How the organization uses abuse and indoctrination to make terrorists
Issa Azadeh, former member of 38 years, speaks to the Tehran Times
TEHRAN – A high-paying job, a nice car, a big home, a fulfilling marriage, or healthy children – these are some of the most common aspirations for adults in society. But for 67-year-old Issa Azadeh, much of his life revolved around far simpler desires. "My biggest wish was to sleep comfortably for a few hours," he recounted during an interview with the Tehran Times.
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2025-02-14 22:43
U.S. Govt's NED confesses involvement in Iran's 2022 unrest
TEHRAN – The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has openly admitted to playing a central role in amplifying and exploiting the tragic death of an Iranian woman in 2022, spurring deadly riots that convulsed Iran for several months.
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2025-01-18 23:04
CIA agent admits to leaking details of Israel's assault on Iran
TEHRAN – A now-sacked CIA operative, Asif William Rahman, aged 34, has pleaded guilty to disseminating classified documents regarding the Israeli regime's November 2024 aggression against Iran.
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2024/08/18
NED has replaced CIA covert activities
National Endowment for Democracy acts as American ‘white gloves’
TEHRAN - The Chinese Foreign Ministry has issued a report elaborating on the conduct of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) that its programs are run under the guidance of the US State Department and embassies abroad.
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2024-07-27 16:56
Egypt, Qatar, US, and Israel to discuss Gaza truce in Rome
Mossad chief David Barnea is expected to travel to Rome on Sunday to meet with CIA director William Burns, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani and head of Egyptian intelligence Abbas Kamel to continue talks on a potential deal that would see the release of the hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza, Al Monitor reported on Friday.
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2024-02-20 22:33
The nuclear conspiracy against Iran cannot save Bibi from the Al-Aqsa storm
"90% Enrichment Show" Directed by Israel
TEHRAN – With the Israeli regime bogged down in Gaza, Israeli and U.S. intelligence circles are busy plotting a new nuclear crisis with Iran that would dwarf the catastrophic humanitarian crisis currently unfolding in the Palestinian enclave.
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2023-12-23 21:47
By M.A. Saki
Ex-CIA chief analyst says Israel “really cannot” destroy Hamas
‘Western support a major factor in enabling Israel to continue down the tragic path’: senior expert
TEHRAN – “Obviously the unqualified Western support has been a major factor in enabling Israel to continue down the tragic path that has led to the situation we see today,” says Paul Pillar, a nonresident fellow at the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University.
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2023-11-03 21:28
Exclusive: Secret Voice of David Petraeus
The General’s Delusional Plan
TEHRAN – With the Israeli regime completely baffled by the October 7 operation by the Palestinian resistance groups, a number of former and current American officials have stepped in to provide the regime with strategic pieces of advice.
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2023-07-23 21:28
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Freedom of opinion claimants back irreverence to Quran
In a note about insulting and burning the Quran in Sweden and Denmark, Kayhan wrote: The burning of the Quran is the product of a negative attitude towards Islam at the Oriental studies universities of the West over the last one hundred years.
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2023-07-17 11:39
By Martin Love
Avoid moral decline because the result is failure…
America in the distant past had a shred of moral decency. Although Russia essentially won World War 2 against the Nazis and Japanese, even at the very end of the war which it rightfully helped “win” it stooped low to drop two atomic bombs on Japan over which it had already triumphed. Why? Because the U.S. wanted to send a threatening message to countries like the Soviet Union that the U.S. aimed to scare and dominate, not to mention the cruel punishment to Japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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2023-04-06 08:20
Split in the opposition
In a commentary, the Javan newspaper analyzed the split among the opponents of the Islamic Republic and wrote: On Farvardin 14 (April 3), five anti-revolutionary political groups gathered in London to announce that their way is separate from the subversives living in America.
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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.
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2022-12-17 22:39
CIA chief voices concerns on Iran-Russia cooperation
TEHRAN – The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Willian Burns, has expressed concern about growing cooperation between Iran and Russia.