Washington

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  • vc 2026-10-13 18:06

    Washington’s Strait of Denial

    Iran has dismissed Washington’s claims of normal maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, accusing the US of ignoring realities on the ground while maintaining pressure on Tehran.

  • Araghchi 2026-09-21 20:53

    Araghchi: Israel Hayom calls for US-Israel integration to make Washington pay for pressure on Israel

    TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has criticized growing Israeli influence over US policy toward Iran, pointing to an opinion article in Israel Hayom that calls for deeper US-Israeli integration so that Washington would face high costs if Israel were subjected to financial pressure.

  • Mock-ups of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are ridiculed during the “313,000 Janfada” drill in Tehran, September 18, 2026. 2026-09-20 20:21

    By Mahmoud Mahmoudian Ravi

    Iran’s message to Washington: No retreat, no surrender, no return to the old order

    TEHRAN — Iran has issued a series of increasingly explicit political, military and strategic messages to the United States and its regional partners, warning that any renewed US aggression would trigger sustained attacks on American positions and interests across the region, while making clear that Tehran does not regard military pressure and diplomacy as mutually exclusive.

  • European Union 2026-09-01 21:06

    EU vows to maintain pressure on Iran despite growing criticism of alignment with Washington

    TEHRAN — The European Union has pledged to continue working with the United States, the G7 and other international partners to maintain economic and political pressure on Iran, in a move that highlights what critics describe as Brussels’ growing alignment with Washington’s Iran policy despite its earlier calls for restraint and diplomacy.

  • Trump standing during cabinet meeting 2026-06-26 20:49

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Trump sees himself ‘most powerful man that the planet has ever known’

    Regime Change by Haberman and Swan exposes a Washington where spectacle, sycophancy, and magical thinking have replaced governance

    TEHRAN — The release of “Regime Change” by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in June offers a devastating autopsy of American power in the 21st century. The book exposes a political system corrupted by spectacle and magical thinking that operates as a lawless cesspool.

  • Senate Republican Iran hawks 2026-06-16 20:35

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Inside Washington’s meltdown over Iran and the rising chorus of imperial defeat

    TEHRAN – When a sparse memorandum of understanding (MOU) is all that remains for Washington after months of imperial aggression, the political theater in the home capital becomes far more instructive than the ink on the paper.

  • Douglas McGregor 2026-05-13 21:22

    US former army colonel: Iran has shattered Washington-Tel Aviv strategic equations

    TEHRAN – The war against Iran has resulted in a strategic defeat for the United States and Israel, triggered a global economic crisis, and shifted the world's geopolitical center toward the East, according to Douglas McGregor, a retired US Army Colonel and former senior military advisor.

  • Strait of Hormuz 2026-04-08 23:15

    Iran declares ‘victory’ as ceasefire with US takes hold, but warns Israel over strikes on Lebanon

    TEHRAN — One day after a cease-fire with the United States took effect, Iran’s leadership on Wednesday proclaimed a historic victory born of national sacrifice and resilience, even as senior officials warned that continued Israeli attacks on Lebanon would be treated as an assault on Iran itself — a threat that could quickly unravel the truce.

  • Middle East 2026-04-07 22:56

    By Garsha Vazirian

    The war that ended the old Middle East

    How Washington and Tel Aviv unwittingly catalyzed a new strategic dawn

    TEHRAN — Five weeks after the United States and Israel started their unprovoked campaign of aggression against Iran on February 28, the Middle East stands transformed.

  • Shina Ansari 2026-04-01 23:36

    Tehran urges UN to hold Washington, Tel Aviv accountable for ecocide

    TEHRAN — In a diplomatic missive that underscores the escalating humanitarian and ecological catastrophe during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Shina Ansari, the head of the Department of Environment, has called upon the United Nations to intervene against what she described as a systematic campaign of "environmental crimes" perpetrated by the aggressors.

  • Rally 2026-03-18 22:56

    Iran defies enemy’s ‘decapitation’ strategy

    TEHRAN – Despite a relentless, campaign of targeted assassinations conducted by the United States and Israel, Iran has successfully resisted what strategists in Washington and Tel Aviv believe would led to a swift collapse of the government.

  • Trump 2026-03-14 19:05

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Europe's reckoning and the wages of submission

    TEHRAN — There is a particular kind of cowardice that dresses itself in the language of responsibility.

  • Iranian Foreign Abbas Araghchi and his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty 2026-02-04 23:23

    Iranian and Egyptian chief diplomats hold talks as Iran and US set to resume nuclear talks

    TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Abbas Araghchi and his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty held a telephone conversation on Wednesday on the latest developments in the region as Iran and the United States are set to resume nuclear talks after six months.

  • persian empire 2026-01-18 20:57

    By Xavier Villar 

    The temptation of fragmentation: Iran, diversity, and the strategic illusion of balkanization

    MADRID - In certain foreign policy circles in Washington and Tel Aviv, the fragmentation of Iran periodically re-emerges as an ostensibly elegant solution to a persistent problem: how to contain the Islamic Republic without bearing the costs of direct confrontation.

  • Pollard 2025-11-25 15:25

    Convicted Israeli spy Pollard alleges rape by U.S. interrogators during custody

    Convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard claimed he was raped by U.S. interrogators while in custody, The Cradle reported Tuesday.

  • Trump and warplane 2025-11-02 20:48

    By Habib Ahmadzadeh

    Peace by force and Trump’s inverted world order

    TEHRAN – Think about how, over the past fifty years, Western leaders—especially in Europe—have repeatedly shouted “democracy” and “no to violence.”

  • Trump's sons 2025-10-26 20:19

    By Garsha Vazirian

    The family business: Drones, crypto, and Trump’s corruption machine

    TEHRAN – The U.S. War Department’s recent purchase of 3,500 drone motors and related components from Unusual Machines — a company in which Donald Trump Jr. holds roughly a $4 million stake and served as an adviser — has intensified scrutiny over what critics call an administration increasingly comfortable turning policy into personal profit.