By Mona Hojat Ansari

Bibi's lies and delusions

A look at Netanyahu's controversial address to U.S. Congress amid the Gaza war

TEHRAN – On Thursday, the world looked on in shock as the U.S. Congress repeatedly stood for applause for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister responsible for the deaths of over 40,000 Palestinians in the past ten months.

By Professor Hossein Askari

Could the Gaza war morph into a Muslim-Jewish war and entrap the United States?

PORTLAND - Most people have witnessed the unfolding Israeli horrors in Gaza. No sane human being could classify Israel’s war as self-defense. It is brutal carnage in real time. Israel has killed well over 40,000 Palestinians, including 30,000 women and children in Gaza, with many more likely buried under the rubble and thousands injured; it has denied food and basic medicine to suffering Palestinians who have had limbs amputated without anesthetic and who face imminent danger of starvation, cholera and polio; and it has displaced the entire population of Gaza several times over.

American Jews: Stop arming Israel, funding genocide

Around 400 American Jews, including over a dozen rabbis, staged a sin-in in a Capitol office building a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech in the US Congress.

Jewish senator to skip Netanyahu speech to Congress

Senator Brian Schatz has said he will not attend a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in Washington DC on July 24.

Russia: Hotheads in Congress escalate tensions

Hotheads in the US Congress look determined to further provoke tensions around Ukraine and follow Washington's general policy of continuing the war to the last Ukrainian, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told the media while commenting on the idea of a group of congressmen about strikes on Russian territory with US weapons.

Congress requests further details on investigation into Malley suspension

TEHRAN - In light of an inquiry into Robert Malley’s handling of secret materials, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs has requested further information from the State Department concerning the decision to put Malley on leave.

U.S. Congress dashes hope for restoration of Iran deal

TEHRAN- Based on informed sources, the U.S. Congress is preparing a bevy of bills that would effectively dash any hope the Biden administration has of inking a revamped nuclear deal with Iran.

Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from powerful House committee

Republicans have ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from her committee post in a sign of escalating tensions in the US Congress.

U.S. Congress passes fresh anti-Iran, meddlesome Act

TEHRAN - The U.S. Congress passed on Saturday another act against the Iranian nation which signifies nothing but a blatant and flagrant violation of human rights, leaving a trail of meddlesome measures.

Congress biggest impediment to restoring JCPOA: American think tank

TEHRAN- The biggest hurdle to the U.S. returning to compliance with the Iran nuclear deal – JCPOA - is Congress since lawmakers, many of whom are vehement opponents of the agreement, have a say in the matter, Jonathan Lord, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), says.

Wasting taxpayers’ money on Iron Dumb

TEHRAN — Teetering on its feet like a drunk man due to the unprecedented inflation rate, why does the U.S. want to fund Israeli defense program?