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Today 21:11
By Shahrokh Saei
A Trojan Horse for Gaza
10 reasons the UN Gaza resolution masks injustice behind diplomacy
TEHRAN – The United Nations Security Council has approved a U.S.-drafted resolution on Gaza, hailed in Washington as a diplomatic breakthrough. But for Palestinians and many around the world, it's another failed plan—one that prioritizes policing over justice and control over freedom.
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Today 16:07
Trump indicates approval for Saudi F-35 sale ahead of MBS White House visit
In a major policy shift, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday his administration's intention to approve the sale of advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, just one day before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s arrival at the White House.
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Yesterday 16:15
Amid mounting MAGA revolt, Trump abruptly backs Epstein files release
In a sudden political pivot, President Donald Trump on Sunday urged House Republicans to release the remaining Jeffrey Epstein files, claiming “we have nothing to hide” on Truth Social—contradicting his prior opposition.
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2025/11/16
By Garsha Vazirian
Trump’s entanglement and the rot of power in Epstein’s shadow ledger
From Mar-a-Lago whispers to Mossad backchannels, the unsealed trove shatters MAGA illusions and Wall Street facades
TEHRAN – Jeffrey Epstein’s archive release unfolds not as a thunderclap but a slow-motion forensic collapse: more than 20,000 pages unsealed by House Democrats on the Oversight Committee, each a page from corruption’s operating manual.
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2025-11-16 14:04
Power that devours itself
TEHRAN – Power in politics, if it crosses the boundary of balance, turns from a strategic capacity into an internal threat. In the political realm, power is a double-edged sword: an instrument that can create security and influence, yet if used unrestrained and to excess, it gradually erodes its own foundations.
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2025-11-15 19:48
Trump's luxury Diriyah deal sharpens pay-for-play charge as MBS' visit looms
The Trump Organization is in talks to attach its brand to Diriyah, the Saudi $63 billion government-led redevelopment — a development that arrives just days before Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s planned visit to Washington.
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2025-11-15 19:13
By Shahrokh Saei
BBC at a crossroads: From Trump dispute to Gaza bias allegations
TEHRAN – The recent dispute between US President Donald Trump and the BBC has drawn renewed attention to the broadcaster’s editorial practices, highlighting questions of accountability and internal oversight.
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2025-11-15 15:51
Trump’s ‘Southern Spear’ gambit to escape a string of setbacks
TEHRAN – Donald Trump, in his second presidential term, continues to pursue the long-standing, overarching U.S. approach of bullying and advancing interests by force — but he now presents that policy in a blunt, unvarnished form.
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2025-11-14 21:45
By Soheila Zarfam
Iran pursues US at UN after Trump admits he was 'in charge of' June war
TEHRAN – "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." That is the warning U.S. police give criminal suspects when they are arrested. Its repetition in American movies and TV has made the notion — that your words can be used against you — familiar to most citizens. Yet some in the U.S. seem to believe words lose their bite when spoken by someone in the position of power.
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2025-11-14 20:43
By Shahab Sarmadi
U.S. proposal for Gaza: ‘Board of Peace’ or cover for occupation?
TEHRAN – President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza, presented by Washington as a blueprint for stability and reconstruction, has drawn significant criticism for functioning as political cover for Israel’s ongoing military campaign.
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2025-11-14 20:20
By Batool Subeiti
Capitalist expansion and US intervention in Latin America
LONDON - The United States is going through a major economic crisis, which is why Trump talks about controlling places like Greenland or the Panama Canal, and makes threats of military action against the oil-rich Venezuela, and even talking about annexing Canada.
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2025-11-14 19:59
By Garsha Vazirian
‘Knew about the girls:’ New emails shatter Trump's Epstein façade
TEHRAN – Just days after the U.S. government shutdown ended, the House Oversight Committee released roughly 20,000 pages of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that have reignited a scandal some thought closed.
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2025-11-14 19:58
Poll: Americans oppose Trump's aggression against Venezuela
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published Friday found only 29% of Americans support using U.S. military force to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge — a striking public rebuke of an administration strategy that has already staged roughly 19–20 strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific and, by Reuters’ count, killed scores of people.
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2025-11-14 16:25
BBC apologizes but rejects Trump’s demand for compensation over Jan. 6 documentary edit
The BBC has apologized to U.S. President Donald Trump for airing a documentary on its Panorama program that spliced together two separate lines from his Jan. 6, 2021, speech, but said it will not pay compensation or accept his claim of defamation.
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2025-11-12 22:23
Venezuelan Ambassador to Iran stated in an interview with Tehran Times:
8 million Venezuelans enrolled to defend homeland
If 87 percent of drug trafficking occurs via the Pacific, why did the U.S. deploy forces in the Caribbean?
TEHRAN – The Tehran Times exclusive interview with Venezuela’s ambassador to Iran, José Rafael Silva Aponte, comes at a fraught moment for Caracas and the wider region.
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2025-11-12 18:08
By Shahrokh Saei
Imperial ambitions at sea: U.S. military escalation against Venezuela
TEHRAN – The deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Caribbean has marked a dangerous escalation in U.S. military activity and sharply heightened tensions with Venezuela.
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2025-11-11 19:10
By Shahab Sarmadi
Sharaa–Trump summit: U.S.–Israeli interests at play
TEHRAN – Monday’s meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Syrian leader Ahmed alSharaa in Washington has been described as a milestone and historic. For the first time since Syria gained independence from France in 1946, a Syrian head of state was welcomed into the Oval Office with full honors.
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2025/11/10
By Mohammad Javad Habibi
Trump’s ASEAN outreach and Washington’s strategic drift from West Asia
TEHRAN - Donald Trump’s attendance at the 47th ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur marks a symbolic yet telling redirection of American foreign policy. After two decades of overreach and strategic exhaustion in West Asia, Washington appears to be searching for a new stage on which to project power. Southeast Asia dynamic, contested, and economically vital offers a setting where the U.S. can reassert visibility while avoiding the immense political and military costs that have accompanied its interventions in the Middle East.
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2025-11-09 20:52
Trump’s admission of war role was a ‘calculated deception,’ says Iran’s embassy in Tokyo
TEHRAN – The Iranian Embassy in Tokyo has strongly condemned the U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent remarks acknowledging his command role in Israel’s June aggression against Iran, describing them as a “self-incriminating admission” that exposes the diplomatic façade concealing a premeditated campaign of violence against the Islamic Republic.
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2025-11-09 20:28
By staff writer
War or peace: What Hegseth and Trump signal
TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a speech on Friday that left no ambiguity: the United States is not seeking to avoid war — it is actively preparing for a global confrontation. Speaking at the National War College, Hegseth compared today’s world to 1939, the year World War II began, and 1981, when Cold War tensions surged. These weren’t just historical references — they were warnings. And more than that, they were a roadmap.
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2025-11-08 20:35
Tehran seeks compensation as Trump admits he was ‘very much in charge’ of Israel’s raid on Iran
Iran cites Trump's ‘clear and irrefutable evidence’ as proof of US role in attacks
TEHRN – Iran has stated that a public "criminal confession" from U.S. President Donald Trump confirms Washington's direct role in Israel's aggression against the country in June, holding both parties fully responsible for civilian deaths, widespread destruction, and attacks on safeguarded nuclear sites.
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2025-11-08 20:26
By M.A. Saki
Kimball says Trump’s nuclear testing push could ‘blow apart NPT’
TEHRAN – Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Washington-based Arms Control Association (ACA), says if the United States conducts nuclear testing it will likely “blow apart the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty” or NPT.
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2025-11-07 21:57
Trump says he was 'very much in charge' of Iran war despite earlier denials
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump claimed responsibility for Israel's June aggression against Iran, walking back his prior denials of involvement and substantiating Iranian allegations that Washington had been complicit in the deadly war from its outset.
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2025-11-05 20:11
By Elaheh Tahmasebi
Why Venezuela’s fate matters to Iran
TEHRAN – Could a U.S. attack on Venezuela serve as a prelude to a future strike against Iran? This is one of the most frequently asked questions in Iranian circles today regarding the fate of Caracas and the Maduro government.
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2025-11-05 18:42
By Garsha Vazirian
Trump’s gilded cage and the sycophancy doctrine
A global playbook of flattery fraying statecraft’s spine with spectacles and shadows
TEHRAN – The spectacle has become the point. Fighter jets escort Air Force One. Prime ministers arrive with golf relics and gold-leaf baubles. Foreign leaders orchestrate airport pageants and shield Donald Trump from protesters — not to salute partnership but to flatter a temperament that prizes adulation above counsel.
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2025-11-05 18:08
By Shahrokh Saei
Mamdani’s win lays bare failure of U.S. capitalism
TEHRAN – Just a year ago, Zohran Mamdani was little known outside Queens, the New York City borough he represents. Now, at just 34 years old, he has made history as the new Mayor of New York City — the largest and most influential city in the United States.
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2025-11-04 19:04
By Shahrokh Saei
Imported victory: Milei’s win and the price Argentina paid
TEHRAN – Argentina’s October midterm elections handed President Javier Milei’s La Libertad Avanza party a sweeping victory. But this was not a triumph of domestic approval — it was a triumph of foreign leverage.
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2025-11-04 18:45
U.S. government shutdown poised to break record as federal paralysis deepens
The U.S. government shutdown tied the prior record on Tuesday and is on pace to become the longest in history on Wednesday at 36 days, a stark marker of national dysfunction and a presidency defined by confrontation over compromise.
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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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2025-11-02 19:47
By Shahrokh Saei
Holy hostility: How Trump weaponizes religion to threaten Nigeria
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent threat to launch military strikes against Nigeria under the banner of protecting Christians is not a sudden outburst — it is part of a long-standing pattern.