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2025/02/21
By Dr. Jin Liangxiang
America’s Middle East policy: Israel first
SHANGHAI - It is rarely disagreed that protecting Israel has stayed a top priority of U.S. policy toward the region. However, very few would have predicted that U.S. pro-Israel policy could go so far as what is demonstrated in the latest round of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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2025-02-08 21:57
By Parviz Rashidi
US envoy’s anti-Hezbollah statement dangerously counterproductive
Ortagus’s meddling in Lebanese government formation is outrageously shameless
TEHRAN - A newly appointed U.S. envoy said on Friday that she hoped Lebanese authorities were committed to making sure that Hezbollah isn’t a part of the new government in any form, AP reported on Friday.
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2024/10/19
By Xavier Villar
Colonial dreams: The unattainable vision of a reconfigured Middle East
MADRID- As explained by Portuguese international relations expert Bruno Maçaes, Israel, alongside the United States, believes that the situation in the region is ripe for a political reconfiguration that eliminates all obstacles to its hegemony. Maçaes describes this moment as "liquid," suggesting that Israel sees parallels with 1967, when it successfully defeated Arab forces and annexed parts of Palestine, such as East Jerusalem (al-Quds).
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2024-06-29 21:30
By Dr. Jin Liangxiang, SIIS Senior Research Fellow
Middle East will have to prepare for the worst weather
SHANGHAI - The Middle East saw the most turbulent tensions after Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, through the first half of 2024. The rationales behind the growing tensions are numerous, but the primary one should be Benjamin Netanyahu’s crazy unreachable and unreasonable objectives. Judging by Netanyahu’s incalcitrant character, the tensions will continue, and the Middle East should prepare for the worst weather.
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2024-04-20 01:13
By Abbas Akhondi
Cool down the space. Don't heat it
The Middle East region is in turbulence and the threshold of war more than ever. Thus, I'm writing a few sentences for the record. with the hope that it would be possible to escape the current conflict with cold intellect, away from the excitement, and with the contrivance of the decision-making authorities.
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2024-02-05 20:41
‘Nothing in the region is likely to de-escalate unless there is de-escalation in Gaza’: think tank
TEHRAN - In a commentary on Feb. 3, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an American think tank, said tension in the region will not de-escalate otherwise Israel ends its war on the Gaza Strip.
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2024-02-05 19:23
By Shahrokh Saei
As massacre in Gaza continues, U.S. sends Blinken to West Asia on a wild-goose chase
TEHRAN- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has kicked off his West Asia tour amid fears over the escalation of Israel’s war on Gaza in the wake of Washington’s warmongering policy in the region.
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2024-01-15 18:05
Kotlets: the art of crafting Persian-style hamburgers
TEHRAN - Hailing from Middle Eastern culinary traditions, Persian kotlets are breadcrumb-coated patties crafted from a blend of ground meat and mashed potatoes.
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2023-11-14 21:42
Iran, China, Russia, Arab nations condemn Israeli minister's statement about nuking Gaza
UNITED NATIONS — China, Iran, Russia and a multitude of Arab nations condemned an Israeli minister’s statement that a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was an option in the Israel-Hamas war, calling it a threat to the world.
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2023-11-12 17:37
The Seven Caves translated into Persian
TEHRAN – The Seven Caves: Archaeological Explorations in the Middle East, which includes archaeological views on caves in Iran and other West Asian countries, has been translated into Persian.
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2023-10-18 17:09
Iranian, Saudi tourism ministers condemn attack on hospital in Gaza
TEHRAN – Iranian tourism minister Ezzatollah Zarghami and his Saudi counterpart Ahmed Al-Khateeb on Wednesday condemned Israel’s strike on a hospital in Gaza.
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2023-05-08 22:09
Taliban must give Iran’s right of Hirmand
Hamshahri addressed the issue of Iran’s water right from the Hirmand River and said: America’s enmity with Iran has a long history, but the Americans have increased this enmity by building the Kamal Khan Dam and diverting the water towards Godzareh.
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2023-05-05 20:28
By Mohammad Hassan Nikbin
Iran-Saudi Arabia deal: Many winners and few losers
Christopher Hoerstel, German journalist and political activist, tells the Tehran Times winners are all friends and partners, including Iraq and Oman, will be the winners of reconciliation between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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2023-04-10 20:55
Restoration of Tehran-Riyadh ties will benefit Muslim world: MP
TEHRAN – An Iranian lawmaker has hailed the restoration of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, describing the move as beneficial to the Muslim world.
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2023-03-25 21:20
China’s success in helping end Iran-Saudi rift won’t lead US to review mindset
US has learned nothing from sad chapter of 21st-century history: ex-Italian diplomat
TEHRAN - A former Italian diplomat says the United States has failed to learn from the sad stories of the 21st century.
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2023-02-25 22:02
By Shahab Esfandiary
Stoning Iran: Examining western media's disinformation campaigns against Iran
TEHRAN- A few years ago, I co-authored a chapter titled 'Stoning Iran: Strategic Narratives, Moral Authority and the Reporting of a Stoning Sentence' in a collection of essays published by I.B Tauris with the title 'Reporting the Middle East' (2017).
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2023-01-11 22:35
Ankara's ties with Damascus: From overthrow to interaction
TEHRAN- The Arab Spring movement, which started in Tunisia, quickly affected all the Arab countries of North Africa and some in West Asia.
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2023-01-07 21:42
Iran rejects Israeli allegations at UNSC
TEHRAN – Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani sent a letter to the president of the UN Security Council dismissing allegations by Israel against Iran in the UN body.
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2023-01-04 19:52
Nasrallah: Soleimani saved region from U.S. occupation
TEHRAN- Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has said the aim of assassinating the martyrs Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was to break the resistance and weaken the parties to its axis.
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2023-01-03 18:07
By Mohammad Hassan Nikbin
The principles Gen. Soleimani stood for are alive: peace activist
‘General Soleimani was known as a strong opponent of terrorism’
TEHRAN - Robert Fantina, an American-Canadian peace and social activist, tells the Tehran Times that says General Soleimani was assassinated in a terrorist attack “but the principles he stood for are” are alive.
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2022-11-27 09:55
By Professor Yuan Zhang
External conflicts revise the view of war in the Middle East
Throughout human history, major international wars have not only caused dramatic short-term fluctuations in interstate relations, but have also had a long and profound impact on the way non-combatant states view war. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is rapidly changing the global geopolitics and the world political and economic order.
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2022-11-02 19:58
Saudis notify U.S. of alleged imminent Iranian attack: report
TERHAN – Saudi Arabia has informed the United States of alleged imminent attack from Iran, several Western media outlets reported.
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2022-09-07 21:57
A failed UK comeback
TEHRAN— Liz Truss, the UK's third female prime minister, made a key decision when she nominated James Cleverly as Foreign Secretary. Why is this decision significant to the West Asian region?
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2022-07-19 18:18
By Mohammad Mazhari
Nothing resembling NATO could be established in Arab world: professor
TEHRAN - Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, says that the idea of establishing a NATO-like alliance in the Arab world is unrealistic.
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2022-07-15 20:33
West Asia won’t achieve stability without resolving Palestinian crisis: analysis
TEHRAN - In a commentary published on Wednesday, it was suggested that “the Middle East will not achieve peace and stability without resolving the Palestinian crisis.”
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2022-07-11 21:44
IRGC official: Arab NATO not effective against resistance front
TEHRAN— The chair of the IRGC political affairs says the previous coalitions between the United States, Saudi Arabia and the Israeli regime failed in the face of the resistance front, predicting that a possible new alliance in the form of “Arab NATO” will also prove ineffective in the face of the front.
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2022-07-10 20:57
Ahead of Biden regional tour, Iran nuclear deal looms large: al-Monitor
TEHRAN - U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to West Asia next week will set the context for what will likely be the final round, or rounds, of indirect talks with Iran to agree on restarting the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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2022-04-16 18:13
By Zahra Mirzafarjouyan
Falk talks of Western hypocrisy regarding refugees, occupation
TEHRAN– Describing the reasons behind the West's double standards towards the issue of refugees and occupation, international law professor Richard Falk says the most immediate relevant answer is race, location, and control of the global humanitarian discourse.
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2022-01-02 18:06
By Mohsen Hayat
U.S. and West Asia, two years after Gen. Soleimani
TEHRAN - January 3, 2022, marks the second anniversary of the assassination of General Soleimani by a U.S. drone attack on the perimeter of Baghdad international airport.
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2022-01-01 16:43
By Mohammad Mazhari
U.S. never tolerates competition in arms sale in West Asia market: military analyst
TEHRAN – A senior Lebanese political and military analyst says the U.S. never accepted anybody to challenge it in the arms market in West Asia, especially in Saudi Arabia.