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Yesterday 21:17
By Hossein Amiri
From 'Epic Fury' to 'Fake Victory'
Trump is trying to find a dignified way out of the quagmire of war by making unrealistic claims about the results of negotiations with Iran
TEHRAN- US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that Washington is close to reaching an understanding with Iran, while Iranian sources dismissed his remarks as a mixture of “truth and exaggeration” aimed at portraying an artificial victory for the United States.
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Yesterday 20:34
Germany’s Iran war stance exposed deep contradictions in Berlin’s foreign policy, says analyst
Christoph Hörstel says German leaders acknowledge public anger over Israel’s actions but continue supporting Tel Aviv behind the scenes
TEHRAN – In this exclusive interview with Tehran Times, Christoph Hörstel, founder of the German political party Die Neue Mitte, political analyst and former journalist, examines the evolving strategic dynamics between the United States, Iran, and the Persian Gulf states in the event of a renewed regional conflict.
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Yesterday 20:25
By Garsha Vazirian
The shock absorber doctrine and the ‘Abraham’ suicide pact
TEHRAN – The old American playbook in the Middle East has completely shed its diplomatic veneer. Arab capitals are not treated as sovereign partners; instead, they have been strategically downgraded to regional shock absorbers designed to absorb the geopolitical, economic, and military blows meant for Tel Aviv and Washington.
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Yesterday 17:34
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Every ego empire eventually falls
HAFIZABAD, Pakistan - The tensions between the United States and Iran did not begin overnight. Their roots trace back to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, yet over the decades the conflict evolved into something far more dangerous and unpredictable.
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2026-05-25 21:40
Three solutions for a permanent end to the war
Kayhan, in an article, outlined ways to achieve a permanent end to the war with the United States. According to the article, America’s war against Iran follows very specific rules, and without understanding them, achieving a lasting end to the conflict is impossible.
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2026-05-25 20:45
Qalibaf’s reelection reinforces Iran’s military-political continuity amid US psychological warfare
By Shahrokh Saei
TEHRAN – The reelection of Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf as Speaker of the Iranian Parliament by an overwhelming majority carries significant political weight amid a psychological warfare campaign waged by the United States and Israel following their setbacks in the recent war.
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2026-05-24 21:33
Trump in Netanyahu’s Grip
For the US government, an “Israel First” policy takes priority over exiting the quagmire of war with Iran
TEHRAN - There seems to be no end in sight to President Donald Trump’s contradictory statements despite intensified efforts to bring a permanent end to the US–Israeli war on Iran, which initially began on February 28.
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2026-05-23 20:53
Iran fears neither war nor the deception of negotiations
Javan highlighted Iran’s strength in both wartime and negotiation contexts. According to the paper, neither war can be considered inevitable nor ruled out, and negotiations can neither be fully trusted nor dismissed.
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2026-05-23 20:50
Gabbard's resignation exposes deep split over Iran policy in Trump administration
TEHRAN – The resignation of the US director of national intelligence has intensified scrutiny of divisions within President Donald Trump’s administration, particularly over Washington’s approach toward Iran and the use of military force abroad.
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2026-05-23 20:00
By Garsha Vazirian
NATO grapples with its unraveling under Washington’s predatory hegemony
TEHRAN — The official communiques emerging from the NATO foreign ministers’ gathering in Helsingborg, Sweden, spoke of enhanced burden sharing and a stronger, fairer alliance. Behind those anodyne formulations lies a transatlantic partnership in an advanced state of political decomposition.
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2026-05-22 20:44
Iran’s model of symmetric deterrence in an asymmetric war
Kayhan, in an article on Iran’s new deterrence model, wrote: "The common assumption is that Iran’s energy infrastructure is a vulnerability and an easy target in wartime." However, Iran’s new deterrence strategy is built on the principle that any damage to these infrastructures will trigger a chain of reciprocal insecurity and infrastructural destruction.
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2026-05-22 20:43
Is Trump’s diplomacy a ruse?
Field Marshal Asim Munir arrives in Tehran to advance mediation efforts between Iran and the US
TEHRAN - Despite diplomatic efforts, mainly involving Pakistan, to secure a permanent end to the US-Israeli war on Iran, President Donald Trump appears determined to maintain pressure on Tehran rather than seek a lasting political settlement.
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2026-05-20 20:30
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.
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2026-05-20 20:15
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.
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2026-05-19 19:50
The world is compelled to accept a new global order
Siasate-Rooz: The world today is inevitably moving toward a new global order — one in which the expulsion of the US from West Asia, unified confrontation with Israel, an end to foreign interventions, the cessation of warmongering and domination, and the genuine revival of international law and national sovereignty become fundamental principles.
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2026-05-19 19:47
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.
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2026-05-18 21:49
Iran submits response to latest US proposal, rejects compromise on enrichment rights
TEHRAN - Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday that Tehran has submitted a response to Washington’s latest proposal to bring a permanent end to the US-Israeli aggression that initially began on February 28.
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2026-05-18 21:48
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.
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2026-05-17 21:37
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.
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2026-05-17 21:34
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.
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2026-05-17 21:30
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.
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2026-05-17 20:55
By Maedeh Zaman Fashami
Trump’s China visit and Washington’s failure to bring Beijing into alignment on Iran
TEHRAN - The recent visit of Donald Trump to China can be seen as one of the most complex moments in Washington–Beijing relations in recent years. On the surface, the trip was framed around recalibrating bilateral ties, managing strategic competition, and discussing global stability.
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2026-05-17 18:10
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.
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2026-05-17 12:35
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.
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2026-05-15 21:48
By Xavier Villar
Iran and the limits of American power
MADRID - Empires rarely collapse all at once. In his monumental study of Rome, Edward Gibbon argued that decline is usually gradual, shaped by long-term structural transformations. Yet history occasionally records moments when a strategic miscalculation accelerates the process. The question worth asking is whether the United States may have reached one of those moments.
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2026-05-13 21:37
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.
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2026-05-13 21:30
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.
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2026-05-13 21:14
Iran believes it is winning the war, Trump failing to read the situation: columnist
TEHRAN– Iran perceives itself as winning the ongoing conflict with the United States, and President Trump's failure to recognize this reality suggests he is "more clueless than I thought," according to Daniel DePetris, a foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
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2026-05-13 20:38
Trump's repeated defeats
Siasat-e-Rooz dedicated its editorial to Iran’s power and the United States’ repeated failures. According to the editorial, the United States, in an unsuccessful attempt to break Iran’s strategic control over the Strait of Hormuz, imposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf.
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2026-05-11 21:47
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.