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2026/01/21
By Xavier Villar
Beyond Trump: The structural roots of the conflict with Iran
MADRID - Across much of the coverage of the latest escalation between the United States and Iran, a reassuringly simple explanation has taken hold. The problem, it is suggested, has a proper name. Donald J. Trump, with his confrontational style, his contempt for multilateral agreements and his preference for displays of force, is portrayed as the primary figure responsible for pushing the bilateral relationship to the edge of the abyss.
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Yesterday 19:58
Will Congressional Republicans defy Trump on Greenland?
In a letter to Norway’s prime minister, US President Donald Trump blamed Oslo for not awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize and for acquiescing to his demand for U.S. control over Greenland. In a commentary published on the Atlantic website, the writer Anne Applebaum said the letter reveals a president untethered from history, diplomacy, or common sense.
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Yesterday 19:57
Trump’s Greenland obsession turns Davos into a test of Europe’s resolve
TEHRAN — President Donald Trump’s appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday was a display of geopolitical brinkmanship, delivered with the swagger of a leader who treats alliances as leverage rather than partnerships.
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Yesterday 19:57
By staff writer
Fox in the henhouse: Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ lets Bibi off the leash
TEHRAN — The decision to include Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a so-called U.S.-led “Board of Peace” for Gaza highlights the deep incoherence of Washington’s approach to Israel’s war against the enclave and its aftermath.
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2026-01-20 20:18
‘We’ll set their world on fire’: Iran's military issues warning over leadership red line
TEHRAN — Senior Iranian military commanders on Tuesday delivered a fierce rebuff to recent threats from Washington, warning that any hostile move against the Islamic Republic’s leadership or sovereignty will trigger a global response that will “set the enemy’s world on fire.”
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2026-01-20 19:18
By Wesam Bahrani
Trump’s Gaza gamble and risks
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to effectively govern the Gaza Strip raises more questions than answers.
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2026-01-20 19:09
By Shahrokh Saei
Trump’s second term: Thunder at home, flames abroad
TEHRAN — One year after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the national mood is uneasy. Polls show that half of Americans believe the economy has worsened under Trump’s leadership, and his approval rating remains stubbornly low.
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2026-01-20 19:02
By staff writer
Davos showdown over Greenland: Europe confronts Trump, faces its costly US reliance
TEHRAN — Europe and the United States remain locked in a tense political standoff. That tension was on full display at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, where European leaders openly criticized President Donald Trump’s push to take control of Greenland and his threats to impose new tariffs on European countries. Their remarks underscored a growing sense of frustration in Europe over Washington’s increasingly confrontational approach.
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2026-01-19 21:04
By Xavier Villar
Why Washington misunderstands power in Iran
An analysis of US rhetorical interference and the structural realities of Iranian power
MADRID - U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion in an interview with Politico, stating that "It's time to look for new leadership in Iran", could be interpreted as just another provocation in his usual repertoire of international rhetoric.
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2026/01/19
By Ranjan Solomon
The Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ is Humpty Dumpty diplomacy — assembled for spectacle, not restoration
GOA — The idea of constituting a “Board of Peace” for Gaza may sound benevolent, even urgent, to those watching the carnage from a distance.
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2026-01-18 21:32
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Historical fantasizing as defeat therapy
Trump appears to still be living in 1953, when governments could be toppled in Iran with money and intimidation
TEHRAN – The shadow of a hastily packed suitcase still looms large over Tehran. In the summer of 1953, a pivotal moment in modern West Asian history unfolded as Kermit Roosevelt Jr., an operative of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), entered Iran carrying bags stuffed with American dollars.
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2026-01-18 19:21
By Ranjan Solomon
The new mandate of recolonizing Gaza: ‘Peace’ boards and the architecture of erasure
GOA — In the lexicon of modern geopolitics, language is rarely used to describe reality; more often, it is used to camouflage it. The emergence of proposals such as a "Gaza Board of Peace" represents a sophisticated linguistic pivot—a transition from the raw violence of military occupation to the sterile, bureaucratic violence of recolonization. By framing the administration of Gaza as a "peace-building" initiative, proponents are attempting to revive the Mandate System of the early 20th century, effectively stripping a population of its agency under the guise of humanitarian necessity.
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2026-01-18 19:16
By staff writer
Hostage to the hegemon: How Trump's Greenland tariff exposes Europe's strategic impotence
TEHRAN — The tariff threat issued by US President Donald Trump over Greenland represents a profound rupture in the logic of the transatlantic relationship. It is not merely an economic measure, nor even a diplomatic provocation, but a demonstration of how far Washington is willing to go to impose its will on its closest allies.
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2026-01-17 19:42
By Sheida Sabzehvari
Iranians ready for the next war, regardless of what Trump says
Sources tell Tehran Times US president’s messages of de-escalation do not hold water for military forces anymore
TEHRAN – For an entire week, U.S. President Donald Trump and his stenographers—a.k.a. Western media—discussed the prospects of a new war against Iran.
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2026-01-17 18:16
By staff writer
Trump's ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza: A blueprint for annexation and erasure
TEHRAN — US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a so‑called ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza — featuring figures such as Tony Blair, Marco Rubio, and Jared Kushner — does not represent a genuine plan for peace. It is a detailed proposal for the international management of Gaza that ignores the core realities of the conflict and the people it claims to help. When scrutinized, the plan reveals itself as an attempt to impose a solution that serves the interests of the United States, Israel, and their allies, while sidelining Palestinian rights and agency.
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2026/01/17
Is U.S. policy forcing France out of NATO?
Recent parliamentary maneuvers in France to debate a withdrawal from NATO are not an isolated political eccentricity, but a direct symptom of a profound corrosion of the transatlantic alliance, fueled by a consistent pattern of American actions. These actions have systematically undermined international law, European sovereignty, and the foundational principles of collective security, creating a crisis of confidence among traditional allies.
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2026/01/17
Trump threatens tariffs on allies to force annexation of Greenland
US President Donald Trump said he is considering applying new tariffs on countries that oppose his ambition of annexing Greenland, CNN reported.
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2026-01-14 19:51
Iran warns against Trump’s military threats
‘Missile arsenal is bigger than ever’
TEHRAN – Despite political, diplomatic, and logistical backing from American and Israeli officials, the riots that disrupted peaceful protests in Iran over economic grievances last week were swiftly curtailed within two days.
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2026/01/14
By Xavier Villar
The United States’ new economic offensive against Iran
MADRID - Yesterday, 12 January, against an already tense backdrop and amid the prospect of a military escalation with Iran, US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of a blanket 25 percent tariff on all imports from any country that maintains commercial relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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2026-01-13 19:16
China opposes Trump’s anti-Iran tariff escalation
TEHRAN – China said on Tuesday it opposes the U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement regarding the declaration of tariffs on countries trading with Iran.
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2026-01-13 19:16
Araghchi says Iran ‘ready for war’ as US keeps threatening military action
TEHRAN –Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi repeated a stance expressed by several Iranian officials in recent days, telling Al Jazeera Arabic that his country is ready to enter war against the United States if the latter is willing to “test” another aggression against Iran.
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2026-01-13 18:57
Iran's nation sends defiant message to Trump:
Game Over
TEHRAN – In a mere six months, U.S. President Donald Trump has twice brought Iran and the United States to the brink of dangerous escalation, actions that could have severely harmed the Trump administration domestically and destabilized the entire West Asian region had not Iran exercised principle and restraint.
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2026/01/13
By Dr Ahmed Moustafa
Strategic quagmire: Expert analysis suggests U.S. will pay a high price for Maduro's "illegal captur
CAIRO – In what geopolitical analysts describe as the most provocative U.S. intervention in Latin America in decades, the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. special forces has backfired catastrophically, implicitly uniting competitors China, Russia, and North Korea in a stark warning to the Trump administration. The trio of opposition has unofficially warned of further escalation and threatened an appropriate response from the U.S. and its allies if Washington does not back down, a move experts believe could expose the fragile foundations of American sovereignty.
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2026-01-11 16:57
By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
Another attack on Iran will have same gains, but heavier losses for US
Trump may not be done exploiting the unrest in Iran, and Tehran is ready to respond
TEHRAN – Western media has been lionizing armed terrorists that burrowed into Iran’s initially peaceful demonstrations as mere “protesters” fighting for freedom and prosperity. When occasionally mentioning their brutal violence, these media outlets only point to their vandalism of government buildings, entirely ignoring the several security forces and citizens they have killed, the public transportation and aide vehicles they have destroyed, or the private businesses and homes they have set ablaze.
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2026-01-10 14:08
U.S. hegemonic ambitions: Trump threatens Mexico with land incursion
US President Donald Trump’s threat to carry out ground attacks in Mexico, under the pretext of fighting drug cartels, suggests that there may be no end in sight to his imperial ambitions in 2026.
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2026-01-10 14:06
Pope Leo warns ‘war is back in vogue’
Roman Catholic Leader Pope Leo XIV has issued a stern warning about the spread of wars across the globe in the wake of the US deadly military strikes in Venezuela — a campaign that culminated in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro.
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2026-01-10 09:46
By Fatemeh Kavand
Police violence in US and Trump’s prescriptions for Iran
TEHRAN - The police pull the trigger, a politician offers encouragement, and a 37-year-old mother collapses to the ground—this is not fiction, but a real scene in the United States. The question now is this: if the very same image had been broadcast from Iran, how would the world have judged Iran? And what kind of media storm would Western outlets have unleashed against it?
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2026-01-07 22:39
By Dr. Mahdi Zolfaghari
Republicans’ November 2026 nightmare
TEHRAN - A review of Donald Trump’s recent statements on the social network Truth Social reveals a profound paradox in his mindset ahead of the next election race. While public opinion and credible polling data, including the results of the DDHQ Institute, which shows his average approval rating at around 44.1 percent, paint a realistic picture of his situation, Trump has locked himself into a purported and unrealistic approval rating of 64 percent.
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2026-01-07 22:20
By staff writer
The ‘narco’ smokescreen clears as US demands Venezuelan oil fields
TEHRAN — The smoke from the January 3 airstrikes on Caracas has barely dissipated, but the strategic landscape of the American aggression against Venezuela has already undergone a chilling transformation.
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2026-01-07 20:54
By Parviz Jamshidi
Should Europe tremble as Trump keeps threatening to grab Greenland?
TEHRAN - Donald Trump is causing fear among Europeans by repeatedly threatening that the U.S. is seeking to annex Greenland, a semi-autonomous region of fellow NATO member Denmark, by force if necessary.