By Garsha Vazirian

Inside the obsessive-compulsive loop of Trump’s digital noise machine

Ghostwritten tirades, em-dashed bluster, and cartoonish AI fantasies reveal Trump’s pathetic unraveling

TEHRAN — Donald Trump’s Truth Social feed is a daily ledger of strategic exhaustion that mistakes noise for authority. The feed functions as a round-the-clock psychological stage where the American presidency is performed in public view.

US Senate advances resolution to curb Trump’s authority over Iran conflict

TEHRAN - The United States Senate has moved forward with a War Powers Resolution aimed at limiting President Donald Trump’s ability to use military force against Iran without congressional approval, amid growing political and legal controversy over the conflict.

Trump’s Iran brinkmanship: The secret behind six retreats

TEHRAN - President Donald Trump has once again backed down from his threat of military action against Iran, as US officials cited by The New York Times acknowledged that Iran’s “successful resistance” and “enormous resilience” have complicated Washington’s war aims and strengthened Tehran’s position on the battlefield.

Trump–Netanyahu persistent delusions

Iran warns that its armed forces will unveil “new surprises” amid renewed US-Israeli war rhetoric

TEHRAN - Iran has warned its adversaries of “new surprises” as the United States and Israel once again beat the drums of war despite their military failure in the recent conflict.

US commentator urges regime change in Iran, backs armed unrest

TEHRAN - US conservative commentator Mark Levin has intensified anti-Iran rhetoric, calling for regime change and the overthrow of Iran’s government in line with positions associated with President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

By Bobby Ciputra

The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing and the rise of corporate diplomacy

Who really rules the world today, the state or the market? Or is it just a handful of people behind the scenes?

JAKARTA —  U.S. President Donald Trump paid a two-day state visit to Beijing on May 14 and 15, meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade.

Realistic expectation from China

Khorasan examined Trump’s trip to Beijing and its impact on the war with Iran. According to the paper, the U.S. president had planned to defeat Iran and use that major achievement as leverage to extract political and trade concessions from his Chinese counterpart. But now, his biggest supposed advantage has turned into his biggest challenge.

Iran president cites ancient Abarkuh cypress in message aimed at Trump

TEHRAN - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has invoked the 4,500-year-old Abarkuh cypress tree in central Iran in remarks directed at US President Donald Trump, using the ancient tree as a symbol of Iran’s historical continuity and civilization.

Poll shows 8 in 10 Americans blame Trump for high gasoline prices

TEHRAN- A recent Reuters poll reveals that nearly eight out of ten Americans hold Trump responsible for soaring gasoline prices, signaling a sharp decline in his political standing.

Strategic shockwaves as Trump visits China

TEHRAN - The prospect of the confrontation between the United States and Iran has transformed global geopolitics from a regional security crisis into a wider test of American power, alliance cohesion, and economic leadership. Against this backdrop, the visit by Donald Trump to China carries significance far beyond bilateral diplomacy. Beijing would likely view such the visit not simply as a diplomatic engagement, but as evidence that Washington, after years of escalating military and economic confrontations around the world, now faces mounting strategic limits and failures.

Trump in Beijing

Is China willing and able to pull the US out of quagmire of Iran war?

TEHRAN — President Donald Trump’s three-day state visit to China begins under the heavy shadow of the ongoing crisis in the Persian Gulf. More than 70 days into the joint US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, the conflict has settled into a precarious stalemate, thrusting Beijing into the role of a critical diplomatic actor.

By Garsha Vazirian

The Israeli bad cop’s rebranding and the guilty scapegoat theater

Netanyahu’s vow to end U.S. subsidies is a strategic gaslight designed to hide a deeper fusion

TEHRAN — When Benjamin Netanyahu sat for his interview with CBS News, now essentially an Israeli propaganda vehicle following Ellison’s acquisition, he delivered a performance meticulously engineered for an audience increasingly exhausted by his cycle of endless warfare and political maneuvering.

Iran sets five conditions for nuclear talks

TEHRAN - President Donald Trump has rejected Tehran’s “reasonable and generous” peace proposal as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intensifies war rhetoric, despite the failure of the joint US–Israel war on Iran that began more than 70 days ago.

Hezbollah is Iran’s red line, not Trump’s photo op

The upcoming Israel–Lebanon negotiations will take place against the backdrop of ongoing Israeli attacks in Lebanon

TEHRAN - Israel’s continued deadly bombardments of Lebanon, despite a ceasefire agreement, clearly indicate that the truce exists only on paper — and that Israel has no scruples about violating it.

Trump faces a political challenge 

Ettelaat, in a commentary, referred to the highly challenging situation US President Donald Trump is facing and wrote: With a 50% increase in fuel prices in the United States, 62% public dissatisfaction, and the upcoming midterm elections, the US president is confronting the economic and political consequences of the war with Iran and is facing a serious challenge in finding a strong way out.

By Garsha Vazirian

Comrade Jianguo goes to Beijing with an empty holster

TEHRAN — When Donald Trump’s aircraft touches down in Beijing, the traditional choreography of American power will be noticeably out of sync. The U.S. president will arrive in the Middle Kingdom not as a global hegemon dictating the terms of “maximum pressure,” but as a strategic firefighter.

By Garsha Vazirian

America’s casino kleptocracy

How the fusion of law, markets, and war turned the U.S. into a high-stakes operating system for elite enrichment

TEHRAN — When asked recently about the ethical implications of political insiders gambling on war outcomes via prediction markets, Trump’s response was as blunt as it was unsurprisingly nihilistic: “The world is a casino. It is what it is.”

Iran teaches Yankees a lesson

Navy responded Thursday night to a ceasefire violation by US pirates around the Strait of Hormuz

TEHRAN - Iran’s strong response to US naval forces in the Persian Gulf region has once again highlighted President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to force open the Strait of Hormuz.

Qalibaf: US naval blockade aims to fracture Iran’s national unity

TEHRAN - Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has warned that the United States is trying to drive a wedge within Iranian society through its naval blockade of Iranian ports.

By staff writer

‘Project Freedom’ runs aground in Hormuz Strait

TEHRAN - President Donald Trump’s decision to pause the so-called “Project Freedom” lays bare his desperation to open the Strait of Hormuz through military force.