TEHRAN — Despite the ceasefire agreement signed with Israel in November 2024, the promised peace remains a distant hope for the people of Lebanon. Israel’s military has effectively transformed a signed truce into a period of controlled aggression, conducting near-daily strikes that have claimed hundreds of innocent lives.
TEHRAN — Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei issued a definitive warning on January 26, declaring that the Islamic Republic is fully prepared to deliver a “sweeping, regret-inducing response” to any act of aggression.
MADRID - In Washington, there remains a persistent temptation to treat a confrontation with Iran as a modular option. Limited strikes, punitive operations, calibrated actions aimed at restoring deterrence without altering the broader strategic balance. That logic has proven effective in other contexts, but with Iran, it is increasingly less so. A US attack on Iranian territory would not be interpreted as a discrete operation or as another episode in a long-standing rivalry. It would be read as a strategic rupture: the moment when the accumulated power of the United States in the Middle East begins generating adverse effects that reinforce one another.
TEHRAN – As U.S. naval deployments in the Persian Gulf intensify and Washington hints at the possibility of renewed aggression, a constellation of Iran’s allied forces across West Asia are issuing coordinated warnings that a second war against the country would ignite a region-wide confrontation — one that neither the United States nor Israel, they say, is prepared to contain.
The U.S. workweek opened with yet more snow dumping on the Northeast under the tail end of a colossal winter storm that brought ice and power outages, impassable roads, canceled flights and frigid cold to much of the southern and eastern United States. Over a dozen weather-related deaths have been reported, PBS News reported.
Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have called on Americans to “stand up” and “speak out” after federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti.
TEHRAN — The retrieval of the remains of Ran Gvili, the last Israeli captive in the Gaza Strip, has been framed by Prime Minister Benjamin as an "extraordinary achievement," but this rhetoric serves only to mask a deeper reality of military and political failure.
TEHRAN - Sobh-e-No analyzed the increased American activity in the Persian Gulf. The newspaper argues that the increased U.S. military activity in the Persian Gulf, along with the activation of the Iran human rights file in the UN Human Rights Council, has led analysts to speculate about the possibility of a U.S. military attack on Iran.
TEHRAN – The closing ceremony of the 12th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial was held on Sunday evening in Tehran.
Demonstrators have marched through major U.S. cities, calling for an end to federal immigration crackdowns and demanding the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
