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2026-10-07 21:32
US attacks damaged 111 petrochemical and pharmaceutical facilities, Iran says
TEHRAN- Iran’s Ambassador to the Netherlands and Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Hadi Farajvand, says US military attacks on Iran’s chemical industries damaged 111 petrochemical and pharmaceutical facilities, disrupting supply chains and affecting the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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2026-10-07 21:26
Senior IRGC official: Iran achieved strategic victory in war with US
TEHRAN- A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) says the Iranian nation has achieved a “strategic victory” in the war with the United States, arguing that the conflict failed to achieve the objectives pursued by Washington and its allies.
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2026-10-07 19:24
Why Isabella chose to disrupt Bessent’s hearing over Iran
Iranian-American activist says she used civil disobedience to challenge U.S. sanctions that she believes are harming Iranian civilians.
TEHRAN - Isabella Javidan, an Iranian-American staff member of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), says she interrupted U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s testimony on September 15 to challenge what she described as Washington’s portrayal of sanctions as merely “technocratic tools,” arguing that they have “real human consequences.”
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2026-10-07 18:38
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Is the old WMD playbook returning?
TEHRAN — Washington has a familiar habit: when diplomacy becomes inconvenient, it begins speaking the language of threat. Repeated often enough, that language can transform a political dispute into an emergency that supposedly demands military action.
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2026-10-06 23:10
Strait of Hormuz: A Valuable Card or a Burnt One?
Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been unprecedented and unshakeable. Western media and Western politicians, however, are trying to tell their people otherwise.
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2026-10-06 19:56
By Mona Hojat Ansari
'Our doors and hearts are always open to Iran': Malaysia's chargé d'affaires tells the Tehran Times
TEHRAN - Dato' Wan Aznainizam Yusri bin Wan Abdul Rashid arrived in Tehran in late August to take up the post of Chargé d'Affaires and Head of Mission at the Embassy of Malaysia. He will be elevated to Ambassador upon the formal presentation of his credentials.
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2026-10-05 21:29
By staff writer
US scrambles all 12 B-1 bombers out of Britain over unexplained threats
TEHRAN — Twelve American B-1 strategic bombers left RAF Fairford over the weekend in a hasty pullout that exposes the growing vulnerability of Western bases supporting Washington’s aggressive military operations against Iran.
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2026-10-05 21:28
Iranian commanders warn any new war would trigger wider regional conflict
TEHRAN- Iranian military commanders have issued a series of increasingly forceful warnings against any renewed US or Israeli military action, saying the Islamic Republic is fully prepared to respond and cautioning regional states against allowing their territory or military facilities to be used in a new conflict.
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2026-10-05 20:58
By Seyed Mohammad Torabi
Trump's strait may be open, but Hormuz is not
US claims of normal traffic collide with dark transits, million-dollar tanker rates, and $9.99 diesel fuel signs
TEHRAN — The US president insists the Strait of Hormuz is open. Tanker captains, charter markets, insurers, and motorists in the US tell a different story.
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2026-10-05 20:57
By Mohammad Sarfi, Editor-in-Chief
Will Trump roll the dice again? Dostoevsky has the answer
TEHRAN — Many around the world are trying to decode and analyze the character of the current President of the United States — from politicians and analysts to journalists, traders, and market players. After all, the U.S. president wields vast powers, while the mechanisms in the American system for overseeing and constraining those powers are, more often than not, theoretical possibilities on paper rather than practical realities.
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2026-10-05 17:12
Has Iran's Hormuz card really been burned?
TEHRAN - Senior U.S. officials have spent months declaring the Strait of Hormuz "open" and Iran's leverage over the waterway "burned." A first-hand Bloomberg report from the strait itself tells a different story — and the facts it contains point to a single conclusion: Iran's Hormuz card remains very much in play.
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2026-10-05 17:03
Heritage is identity: Iranian archaeologist exposes scale of war destruction to historic sites
TEHRAN – An Iranian archaeologist, Sonia Shidrang, highlighted in a global webinar hosted by the International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), a scientific committee under ICOMOS, that the 40-day war with the United States and the Israeli regime left 149 historical sites across 20 provinces damaged, and that Iran's cultural heritage now demands a response grounded in international law, rigorous documentation, and a concrete protection plan.
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2026-10-05 16:11
Iran Explained
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2026-10-05 16:04
What is Iran's 7-Day plan to reopen the Hormuz?
TEHRAN - It is not a final peace treaty. It is a one-week, step-by-step starter deal.
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2026-10-04 19:54
Iran rejects Axios report on expulsion of diplomats from US
TEHRAN — Iran has rejected a report by the US news website Axios claiming that two members of its delegation to the United Nations General Assembly left New York after failing to comply with a US State Department request to leave the country, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi describing the alleged “expulsion” as a sign of “desperation and defeat.”
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2026-10-04 19:53
Iran hails departure of US forces from Iraq
TEHRAN — Iran has welcomed the departure of US and other foreign forces from Iraq after two decades, describing the development as an important and necessary step toward strengthening national sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence in the Arab country.
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2026-10-04 19:52
By staff writer
American Marine arrested over brutal murder of Japanese woman in Okinawa
TEHRAN — Japanese authorities lodged a formal protest with Washington on Sunday after Okinawa police arrested a 20-year-old U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbing and murdering a local woman in Naha, reigniting fury over the massive American military footprint in Japan.
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2026-10-04 19:49
Iran says to deliver additional points on US counter-proposal
TEHRAN — Iran will convey additional points regarding a US counter-proposal to Tehran’s seven-day plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz after completing the necessary assessments, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said on Sunday.
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2026-10-04 19:49
Qalibaf: Iran ready to spring new surprises on adversaries
TEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has warned that Iran will continue to confront its adversaries with new surprises while pursuing military and diplomatic strategies in parallel, saying the United States has grown frustrated by the Iranian nation’s steadfast resistance.
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2026-10-04 19:47
Keyhan: Strait of Hormuz exposes America's economic problems
In a note, Keyhan argued that the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz has directly affected the US economy by driving up inflation and fuel prices. The newspaper said President Trump and his administration are working hard to prevent Republicans from losing the November midterm elections, which it says have become closely tied to the conflict with Iran and its economic consequences.
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2026-10-03 20:12
Valtersson exposes NATO military exhaustion, Russian air superiority, US strategic defeat in Iran
TEHRAN — In the latest joint X Space broadcast co-hosted by the Tehran Times and Sputnik, military analyst Mikael Valtersson—a former officer of the Swedish Armed Forces specializing in air defense, former defense politician, and chief of staff with the Sweden Democrats—provided an incisive assessment of shifting global strategic realities.
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2026-10-03 20:08
Iran army says prepared to face any scenario
TEHRAN– Iran’s Armed Forces are closely monitoring developments and remain fully prepared to respond to any scenario, the spokesperson for the Islamic Republic of Iran Army said on Saturday, as he referred to repeated threats by the country’s adversaries.
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2026-10-03 19:50
US forces may retreat farther from Persian Gulf, IRGC deputy commander says
TEHRAN- Major General Mostafa Izadi says US forces have moved more than 500 kilometers from regional waters, arguing that Washington’s military presence has failed to provide security for regional countries.
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2026-10-02 21:15
Era of cost-free threats against Iran is over: IRGC
TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned that any threat, act of aggression, or hostile move against the Islamic Republic will be met with a decisive and potentially more devastating response than Operation True Promise 2, declaring that 'the era of cost-free threats against Iran has come to an end.'
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2026-10-02 21:07
By staff writer
Arab monarchies’ capital flows through Kushner firm to wage genocidal wars
TEHRAN — Jared Kushner, serving as an unvetted diplomatic negotiator for the White House, has established a lucrative connection to the military apparatus backing Israel’s genocidal wars across the Middle East. Recent financial transparency disclosures reveal that Kushner’s Miami-based private equity fund, Affinity Partners, remains the single largest shareholder in Phoenix Financial, according to a CNN report on October 1.
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2026-10-02 21:06
By staff writer
Time magazine exposes recklessness at the heart of Trump’s warmongering
TEHRAN — New details from a Time magazine exposé unmask the chaotic dysfunction currently driving United States imperialism. The report, published in the latest issue of Time, reveals that the White House has outsourced its disastrous military adventurism to a large language model (LLM), exposing a declining American empire dangerously detached from reality.
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2026-10-02 21:00
US withdrawal from Iraq marks new Phase for Resistance Front: Qaani
TEHRAN– Brigadier General Esmaeil Qaani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, has described the United States’ withdrawal from Iraq and its failure to achieve its objectives in the war against Iran as significant setbacks for Washington, saying the developments signal a new phase for the Resistance Front across West Asia.
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2026-10-02 20:52
The beginning of America’s end in the region
The Iran newspaper examined the reasons behind the US withdrawal from Iraq after two decades. It reported that American forces officially left Iraq, ending a twenty-year military presence.
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2026-10-02 20:51
Iran urges Iraq to resist US ‘economic terrorism’, resume air links
TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has issued a forceful call for Iraq to dismantle flight restrictions imposed between the two nations, urging Baghdad to stand firm against US “economic terrorism and sedition.”
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2026-10-02 20:50
By Seyed Mohammad Torabi
How Iran surprised the world?
Putin says the whole world is amazed by Iran's courage and resilience
TEHRAN - Russian President Vladimir Putin is not alone in saying that Iran’s resilience in the war with the United States and Israel has surprised the world. From a former head of Britain’s MI6 to senior American analysts, politicians and major international think tanks, a recurring assessment has emerged during the conflict: Iran proved considerably more resilient than many in Washington and Tel Aviv had anticipated.