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2026-06-10 18:01
Israeli war on Lebanon could serve as catalyst for regional unity
TEHRAN – The Israeli war on Lebanon serves as a major test of the Arab world's willingness to cooperate with Iran. The Islamic Republic has linked its own ceasefire discussions with the U.S. to the inclusion of Lebanon in any agreement. To counter this, the Trump administration has heavily pressured Beirut to enter U.S.-mediated negotiations with Israel. The primary goal is to push Lebanon into direct talks with Israel, potentially forcing the Lebanese government into direct conflict with Hezbollah.
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2026-06-09 16:49
Tasting chikoo, papaya and guava; a unique experience for tourists in Darak Village
TEHRAN – Darak Village, a nominee for the UN Tourism Best Tourism Villages 2026 program and located in Zarabad county, Sistan-Baluchestan province, has recently played host to a number of tourists, travel bloggers, content creators and social media influencers who traveled to the region to explore its unique tourism potential, a tourism official told the Tehran Times on Tuesday.
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2026-06-08 20:53
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.
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2026-06-07 17:11
Iran plans marine tourism development along southern coastal corridor
TEHRAN – Iran has adopted a new strategy to expand marine tourism along its southern coastline, focusing on a tourism corridor stretching from Makran to Abadan, Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri said on Saturday.
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2026-06-05 18:08
Archaeological evidence points to ancient Parthian naval base near Strait of Hormuz
TEHRAN - Archaeological investigations in southern Iran have uncovered evidence suggesting that the Parthian Empire established a strategic naval base near the Strait of Hormuz around 2,000 years ago, highlighting Iran's historical role in monitoring one of the world's most important maritime trade routes, a local archaeologist said.
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2026-06-02 17:15
Gav Bast Mountain’s 8,000-year-old artifacts on display in National Museum
TEHRAN - Gav Bast Mountain, with its 8,000-year history of human occupation, stands as a testament to the deep archaeological significance of Iran’s southern landscapes, a fact now highlighted in a major new virtual exhibition at the National Museum of Iran.
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2026-05-31 17:50
By Sepehr Zarei, archaeologist
Zobeiri: Guardian of the Persian Gulf’s millennia-old heritage
Until recently, few imagined human presence on Iran’s Persian Gulf islands extended beyond the last millennium. But archaeological research has transformed this understanding. Excavations on Qeshm Island pushed settlement back nearly 5,000 years, while stone tools on Bam-e Qeshm hinted at an even older past. The discovery of Paleolithic sites on Hormuz Island—Chand-Derakht and Sang-e Ghorab—revealed that Middle Paleolithic populations lived there between 150,000 and 40,000 years ago, highlighting the Persian Gulf’s role in early human migrations. Long before these scientific findings, Master Mohammad Zobeiri had already grasped this deep historical continuity, preserving it in the Deyrestan Anthropology Museum and his book Ganz-e Bapu.
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2026-05-29 21:07
By Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini
Legal foundations for collecting dues in the Strait of Hormuz
QAZVIN – Examining the recent actions and initiatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Strait of Hormuz through the prism of international law, specifically the specialized branch derived from these rules known as the “law of the sea,” is an essential necessity at this critical historical juncture.
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2026-05-29 20:34
Germany’s Iran war stance exposed deep contradictions in Berlin’s foreign policy, says analyst
Christoph Hörstel says German leaders acknowledge public anger over Israel’s actions but continue supporting Tel Aviv behind the scenes
TEHRAN – In this exclusive interview with Tehran Times, Christoph Hörstel, founder of the German political party Die Neue Mitte, political analyst and former journalist, examines the evolving strategic dynamics between the United States, Iran, and the Persian Gulf states in the event of a renewed regional conflict.
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2026-05-29 17:34
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Every ego empire eventually falls
HAFIZABAD, Pakistan - The tensions between the United States and Iran did not begin overnight. Their roots trace back to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, yet over the decades the conflict evolved into something far more dangerous and unpredictable.
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2026-05-25 21:41
By Batool Subeiti
Why Iran will never surrender the Strait of Hormuz
LONDON — If the Strait of Hormuz were within the territorial boundaries of any great power, it would be considered a national treasure and sovereign asset, and that power would never relinquish full control over it. This is because of its strategic importance, given that around 11% of global trade passes through it and nearly 20% of the world’s energy supply chains transit the strait.
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2026-05-24 21:33
By Shahrokh Saei
From Khorramshahr to Hormuz: A legacy of bravery and resistance against aggressors
TEHRAN – This year’s anniversary of the liberation of the strategic Iranian port city of Khorramshahr from Iraqi occupation has come into sharp focus amid Iran’s enduring resilience and resistance, set against the backdrop of recent US-Israeli aggression.
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2026-05-24 21:30
Iran’s strategy for Persian Gulf, Hormuz Strait to shape West Asia’s new order: Major General
TEHRAN- The plans and strategies of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution for managing the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz will guarantee the future of the region and a new regional order, in which foreigners will have no place, a top IRGC commander said.
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2026-05-23 20:40
Iran accuses Persian Gulf states of complicity in US-Israeli attacks
TEHRAN- Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Saeed Iravani, has sharply criticized some Persian Gulf states for allegedly assisting the United States and Israel during 'unlawful acts of aggression against the Islamic Republic,' while also rejecting American and Emirati accusations concerning regional security and Iran’s nuclear activities.
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2026-05-22 20:36
By Garsha Vazirian
We can all thrive when the Abu Dhabi syndicate folds
TEHRAN — The Al Nahyan crime family has achieved a grim, singular trifecta: it has alienated its local citizenry, reduced its nine-million-strong migrant workforce to indentured cogs, and transformed a historic mercantile hub into a forward-operating base for the genocidal U.S.-Israeli military-intelligence complex.
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2026-05-20 20:34
Persian Gulf war raises risk of environmental disaster
TEHRAN – The dangerous war that the U.S. and Israel jointly started against Iran at the end of February has incredibly increased the risks of an environmental disaster, a Princeton University researcher warns.
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2026-05-19 14:51
From Caspian borders to international waters: Real scenarios of gas corridor
TEHRAN- The idea of transferring Russian gas through Iran to the Persian Gulf is one of the important geopolitical energy scenarios that could change the gas trade map in Eurasia and the West Asia.
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2026-05-18 18:35
Exhibition ‘Hormuz: The Maritime Highway’ to be held online
TEHRAN – A virtual exhibition titled "Hormuz: The Maritime Highway – A Narrative of Thousands of Years of Human Presence on the Shores of the Persian Sea" will open online on May 23, at 11:00 a. m., according to the National Museum of Iran.
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2026-05-17 21:09
Senior Iranian MP warns US of total regional oil shutdown
TEHRAN- A senior Iranian lawmaker has warned that any attack on Iran's energy infrastructure will result in a total disruption of global oil supplies from the Persian Gulf region.
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2026-05-17 18:10
Iran president cites ancient Abarkuh cypress in message aimed at Trump
TEHRAN - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has invoked the 4,500-year-old Abarkuh cypress tree in central Iran in remarks directed at US President Donald Trump, using the ancient tree as a symbol of Iran’s historical continuity and civilization.
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2026-05-16 21:23
By Fatemeh Kavand
The siege that turned Iran into a transit hub
TEHRAN - The US Navy blockaded Iranian ports, but Pakistan opened six land routes. A new 89‑km corridor has cut travel time to Iran from 18 hours to just a fraction of that. Iran, which once conducted 90% of its trade by sea, now moves 40% of it on rails — and China and Central Asia are now part of the equation.
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2026-05-15 21:44
By Dr. Federico Verri
Persian Gulf monarchies, US hegemony, and the limits of Muslim solidarity with Iran
TEHRAN — The relationship between Iran and the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf has often been described through the familiar vocabulary of sectarian rivalry, strategic competition, and balance of power. Yet this vocabulary, although useful, is incomplete. It conceals a deeper contradiction: the persistent gap between the Islamic language publicly invoked by the Persian Gulf ruling elites and the security architecture through which they have tied their survival to the United States.
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2026-05-05 23:56
Iran registers 400 cultural elements linked to Persian Gulf
TEHRAN - Iran has recently registered more than 400 cultural and heritage elements that are connected to the Persian Gulf, a senior official said, underscoring efforts to preserve the historical and cultural significance of one of the world’s most strategically important waterways.
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2026-05-04 22:02
By Sepehr Zarei
Rethinking the Persian Gulf’s role in deep time human history
In contemporary political rhetoric, “returning to the Stone Age” is often invoked as a metaphor for collapse and backwardness—a phrase occasionally directed at Iran. Yet, from an archaeological perspective, this term carries a fundamentally different meaning.
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2026-05-03 21:30
Lake Chitgar hosts grand musical tribute to the Persian Gulf
TEHRAN– In a celebration of Persian Gulf National Day on Friday, Lake Chitgar, an artificial and recreational body of water in northwestern Tehran, hosted a grand artistic event titled "Persian Gulf Passage".
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2026/05/03
By Mir Mohammad Alikhan
Iran's rightful sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz: Historical truth meets legal reality
ISLAMABAD - I have been thinking for a long time to write about this. For years, I have watched the world talk about the Strait of Hormuz as if it were some neutral highway that anyone can police from afar. As someone who spent decades on Wall Street building investment portfolios around global energy flows, I have always kept a sharp eye on how trade actually moves across the oceans. An investment banker worth his salt has to understand not just the numbers on a screen but the physical choke points that make or break entire economies.
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2026-05-03 14:43
Iran advances 16 fisheries port projects, completes 5 last year
TEHRAN – The director general of fishing ports development and management at the Iran Fisheries Organization (IFO) outlined actions taken in the previous Iranian calendar year 1404 (ended in late March), pointing to the implementation of around 16 major projects in the fishing ports sector, including breakwater construction, wharves, dredging of basins, and expansion of support buildings and core infrastructure along the southern coasts (the Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea).
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2026-05-02 22:04
Iran selects ancient port of Siraf for UNESCO World Heritage nomination in 2026
TEHRAN – Iran has selected the historical port of Siraf in the southern Bushehr province as its official candidate for UNESCO World Heritage inscription in 2026, a provincial cultural heritage official said on Saturday.
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2026-05-02 21:58
By Xavier Villar
The UAE, OPEC, and the collapse of the Persian Gulf order
MADRID - The United Arab Emirates' decision to leave OPEC was presented by Abu Dhabi as a strategic move toward greater energy autonomy. The reality tells a different story. This departure represents the tacit acknowledgment of a deeper geopolitical defeat: the end of a decades-long project in which the Persian Gulf monarchies attempted to construct a regional order that excluded Iran. What we are witnessing is the collapse of the security architecture that has defined the Persian Gulf since 1981.
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2026-05-02 10:48
Iranian Flag Raised at 10,000-Person Public Sports Rally for Persian Gulf Day