Kallas’ apartheid characterization of Israel is overdue but welcomed 

TEHRAN - Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, has come under attack by Euractive for comparing Israel to South Africa’s racist apartheid era during high-level talks in Mexico. It argued that she has broken ranks with the EU's official foreign policy and deepened the controversy surrounding her leadership.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israeli soldiers suffer heavy casualties in Lebanon

TEHRAN – The Israeli regime’s health ministry released updated casualty figures on Saturday, confirming 10 new injuries among soldiers since the previous update issued on Friday.

By Garsha Vazirian

Washington’s monetary terrorism and the gangster diktat imposed on Iraq

TEHRAN — Of all the political fictions staged by Washington over the past two decades, few match the cynicism currently playing out in Baghdad. The United States is orchestrating a fraudulent narrative for a nation whose oil revenues sit in a Manhattan vault, whose airspace has been routinely violated by American and Israeli warplanes, and whose cabinet is subjected to blatant foreign vetoes.

By Garsha Vazirian

Flamingo Revolution, Israeli footprint, and Albanian PM’s Iranophobic ravings

Jared Kushner’s Sazan Island luxury project strips Albania of its sovereignty, sparking an unprecedented uprising against foreign domination

TEHRAN — The pink flamingo has evolved from a delicate wetland bird into the fierce emblem of a nation refusing to be erased. In the streets of Tirana, tens of thousands of angry Albanians have been marching with inflatable flamingos held high, their powerful chants echoing off government buildings.

By Garsha Vazirian

Hydrological horror in Hormozgan and America’s infinite regress to barbarism

TEHRAN — The ruins of two concrete water tanks in Sirik stand as silent witnesses to American brutality. One held 500 cubic meters, the other 2,000.

By Wesam Bahrani

The war on the moral identity of Lebanese resistance

TEHRAN – Hezbollah’s supporters in Lebanon have been subjected to continuous psychological, media, and cognitive warfare alongside the fierce Israeli aggression against the country.

By Garsha Vazirian

A blue sweater and a shoe in the bombed schoolyard

100+ days after the Pentagon vaporized a primary school in Minab, a look at the architects and accomplices behind the modern My Lai

TEHRAN — Over 100 days have passed since the missiles struck. Over 100 days of grief that does not diminish, of mothers holding schoolbooks of their martyred children, of small graves that should never have been dug.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israeli efforts to spread crime in Gaza: The goals and tools

TEHRAN – In Gaza, the Israeli regime’s systematic targeting of security agencies is an attempt to achieve several objectives, foremost among them portraying the coastal enclave as a lawless region where no authority exists.

From Siniora’s tears in 2006 to Iran’s missiles in 2026

TEHRAN —When Lebanon came under a cruel attack by Israel in the summer of 2006, Arab foreign ministers gathered in Beirut on August 7 to express their support for Lebanon. At the time, Fouad Siniora was Lebanon’s prime minister.

By Garsha Vazirian

How Israel justifies bombing anything that exists

TEHRAN — In another flagrant breach of the fragile April ceasefire in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and its allies, the Israeli military executed a brazen airstrike against the Mahshahr petrochemical complex in southwestern Iran on June 8.

By Wesam Bahrani

How did Lebanon’s government approve surrender document?

TEHRAN – The understandings announced between Lebanon and the Israeli regime in April and June raise an analytical question that extends beyond their immediate political significance to their underlying legal structure.

‘They only understand the language of force,’ Ghalibaf says after Dahieh bombing

Israeli forces launch a calculated assault on a Beirut housing complex

TEHRAN — Israeli warplanes launched a deadly airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahieh on Sunday afternoon, hitting a residential building in the Tahwitat al-Ghadir neighborhood and killing two citizens while wounding 11 others.

By Ezzaldeen Shalah

Look at Gaza through the lens of humanity and justice

From the heart of Gaza, where death is no longer just a news headline but a part of daily life, we watch with deep sorrow the continued targeting of children, families, and the tents of displaced people that are supposed to provide shelter and safety for civilians.

‘Revealing limits of US protection’

TEHRAN - In a commentary published on the Al Jazeera website on June 7, a globally recognized expert in Middle Eastern politics and regional diplomacy wrote that Iran’s response to the joint U.S.-Israeli war of aggression on the Islamic Republic revealed the “limits of U.S. protection”.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israeli army “bleeding” in southern Lebanon

TEHRAN – Israeli news outlets have acknowledged that the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) is “bleeding in the quagmire” of southern Lebanon after Hezbollah inflicted yet more casualties.

By Garsha Vazirian

Inside the structural collapse of Israel’s global legitimacy

TEHRAN – Something fundamental has broken in the architecture of global opinion, and no amount of propaganda from Tel Aviv or cover from Washington can piece it back together.

Lebanese government’s reliance on US leaves it exposed

TEHRAN – Lebanon’s government continues to insist that proximity to the United States grants it absolute protection or that it can shield Lebanon from Israeli aggression.

By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi

Iran: A civilization that refuses to bow

HAFIZABAD, Pakistan – Iran is often discussed through the language of sanctions, nuclear negotiations, and regional tensions. Yet those headlines tell only a small part of the story. Behind the politics stands a civilization that has survived for thousands of years and has repeatedly outlived the forces that sought to dominate it.

By Garsha Vazirian

How the antifragile fusion of Ghadir and Ashura shields the Islamic Republic

TEHRAN — Western intelligence agencies consistently miscalculate the endurance of the Islamic Republic of Iran because they rely on a fragile, linear epistemology.

By Wesam Bahrani

Netanyahu “rejects” withdrawal from South Lebanon

TEHRAN – Netanyahu reportedly has no plans to withdraw occupation forces from southern Lebanon in the foreseeable future, as aggression against towns and villages across the region continues.

Germany is punished at the UN

TEHRAN - Germany’s failure to secure a temporary seat on the UN Security Council on Wednesday came as a blow to Berlin.

By Wesam Bahrani

Israel’s war objectives in Lebanon shrink

TEHRAN – The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have acknowledged casualties to more soldiers in southern Lebanon as the Zionist regime’s war objectives diminish in the face of Hezbollah’s strong resistance.

By Garsha Vazirian

The ghost of Beaufort Castle

TEHRAN – The diplomatic language surrounding the conflict in southern Lebanon has undergone a fundamental shift. For months, international statements had been couched in the cautious lexicon of border clashes and temporary security measures.