Iran Resists
19 June marked the seventh day of Israeli strikes against Iran, with developments appearing to diverge from White House expectations. Following targeted attacks on senior military commanders and nuclear scientists,…
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Iran’s Realpolitik: How Strategy Outlives Ideology
In the shadow of rising tensions between Iran and Israel, with missile strikes and assassinations threatening to reshape the Middle East, it is easy to paint Iran as a theocratic…
Why Israel Needs the US and Why It Could Backfire on the US
Israel’s war on Iran is escalating fast. Within six days, Israeli airstrikes killed top Iranian military commanders and destroyed several surface-level civilian installations. But one key target remains untouched: Iran’s…
Iran-Israel: The Making of a World War?
We became accustomed for a while to the mutual bombardment of Iran and Israel for the first a couple of days. Then Israel started declaring that it had achieved its…
India’s Delicate Balance in the Iran-Israel Conflict
As the Iran-Israel conflict escalates into its most volatile phase in recent memory, India finds itself navigating a complex diplomatic tightrope. The Israeli airstrikes of June 13, 2025—dubbed "Operation Rising…
Iran: A House of Trojans!
The Israel attack on Iran is a developing story. On June 13, at around 4 am Friday, Israel attacked Iran, on its nuclear facilities and reportedly killed Iran’s top military…
Indian people condemn Israeli attack on Iran
A delegation of social & political activists met the Iran Consul General Hon'ble Hasan Mohseni Fard at the Iranian consulate in Mumbai. The delegation discussed and condemned the recent Israeli…
The Illegal Attack on Iran
Israel’s consistent attacks on Iran since 2023 have all been illegal, violations of the United Nations Charter (1945). Iran is a member state of the United Nations and is therefore…
The Collapse of Deterrence Between Iran and Israel
When Deterrence Breaks Down Between Israel and Iran The latest escalation between Israel and Iran marks a perilous moment in West Asian geopolitics, where decades of shadow war have slipped…
Israel’s Unprovoked Bombing of Iran Violates International Law. Full Stop.
Trump himself paved the way to this war by trashing the 2015 nuclear deal, but now he must condemn—not support—this brazen and unlawful military campaign. The government led by Israeli…
Israel launches attack on Iran’s nuclear program
Israel launched dozens of strikes on Iran Thursday, targeting its nuclear program. Israeli officials said that the strikes would continue for days. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday…
Israeli Attack on Iran: UN must Act to Stop Escalation
Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities on June 13, 2025 cannot be justified at all as the past record of Iran has been of cooperating reasonably well with the international…
Why Doesn’t Trump Want Netanyahu to Strike Iran?
United States president Donald Trump seems to be a very happy man these days. He says he is about to reach a deal with Iran on its nuclear file very…
Nuclear Politics: US-Iran and The ‘Illusive Deal’
Despite the seeming sidedness and intransigence between Iran and the US, their fifth round of nuclear talks with Oman as mediator, is expected to be held in Rome on Friday.…
Mullahs in Tehran Are Under Threat to Compromise with the US
In May 2024, indirect talks between Iran and the US had been secretly begun in Muscat, Oman, under the Biden Administration. The issues discussed were Iran's nuclear program and the…
Linkages of US-Iran Talks to Gaza and Wider Palestine Issues
The US-Iran negotiations are widely seen on a note of hope by most people. The issue of alleged nuclear weapon plans of Iran has long been a highly controversial issue…
Iran Wins First Round in The Oman Talks
EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial, written by by Abdul Bari Atwan, chief editor of the Arabic Al Rai Al Youm website, on Saturday, 12 April relates to the first talks of the…
Should Iran Bend Knee to Donald Trump?
Former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter usually provides excellent analysis of geopolitical events and places them in a morally centered framework. However, in a recent X post, Ritter defends a…
Trump, Iran And The Coming ‘Nuclear Fight’
Experts say the Middle East region is poised on an impending war with the top protagonists being the USA, Israel and Iran. They stand on a military pedestal of violent…
Trump hypes up tensions with Iran
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action…
Iran Will Not be Bullied, Tells Trump to ‘Go to Hell’
One couldn’t help but feel a tinge of pleasure in Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian lashing out at Donald Trump. Without mincing his words, and certainly not sticking to diplomatic niceties,…
Iran-Russia Security Pact: Countering Israel’s attempt at expanding Middle-East conflict?
by Hemshikha Mishra and Ankit Kumar Introduction Is the conflict in Middle East likely to expand? Iran’s quest for a security assurance seems to suggest so. Since his surprising election as…
Factional Fighting Heightened in Iran Over Negotiations With the US
Until May last year, the fundamentalists in Iran had total control over the presidency, and the country had a strong standing against Israel through its allies in the region. However,…
The Possibility of a War Against Iran
In early January, most of the major military forces of Iran participated in a large military exercise called Payambar-e Azam (Great Prophet), which started as an annual exercise 19 years…
Israel’s never ending war: A strategy to encircle Iran?
With the taming of Lebanon, the US backed Lebanon/Hezbollah- Isreal ceasefire has successfully delinked Hezbollah- Isreal relations from the Palestinian question. Now the focus of Netanyahu's everlasting wars have shifted…
Iranians Memorialize 1,500 Martyrs Murdered in 2019
Calling for accountability in the murder of as many as 1,500 martyrs killed during the Bloody November 2019-2020 nationwide civil protests in Iran, precipitated by a massive escalation in the…
West Asia reacts to Trump’s dalliance with Zionism
The election victory of Donald Trump in the November 5 election is being perceived in the West Asian region with growing anxiety as presaging the US aligning one hundred percent…
A Sudden Strike of Israel “Operation Days of Repentance”: A Historical and Spiritual Examination
Abstract In the age brimming with technology and the clamour of enmity is growing each other has leading the man into unprecedent environment. So the recent attack of Israel named…
Israel Attacks Iran
Israel—which is already waging war on Gaza and Lebanon—said its military struck targets in and near Iran's capital Tehran early Saturday, while explosions believed to be Israeli attacks were also reported in…
Nuclear Fever: War Mongering on Iran
The recent string of exaggerated military successes – or at least as they are understood to be – places Israel in a situation it has been previously used to: prowess…
The Arabs are transparently displaying their crossover to multi-alignment in a US-led Middle Eastern war
Reuters reported on Friday quoting three sources in the Persian Gulf that the regional states are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking Iran’s oil sites as “part of their…
Russia aligns with Iran, war clouds scatter
Israel has apparently shelved its planned attack on Iran. A combination of circumstances can be attributed to this retreat, which rubbishes Israel’s own high-pitched rhetoric that it was raring to go. Despite…
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Respond to Israel’s Chain of Terrors
It appears that the recent chain of terrors intensified after the helicopter crash of President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions on May 19, 2024. The assassinations of Palestinian leaders and…
Israel Wants Its War With Iran—But If Netanyahu Not Stopped, They Might Spark World War III
Israel has assassinated the leader of Hezbollah and killed many of its members by way of booby-trapped pagers and walky-talkies. After a blitzkrieg bombing campaign, Israel once again invaded Lebanon this…
Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC),…
Relocation of the Capital of Iran -Potential Rescue of Tehran or Unrealistic Pep Talk: Part II
The first part of this article, published on 19/09/2024, contained background information and discussion of the experiences of the relocation of the capital city in some other parts of the…
Relocation of Tehran, the Capital of Iran – Lessons to be Learned from Similar Experiences – Part I
Recent remarks by the newly elected President of Iran have reignited the discussion about relocating the capital from Tehran. Massoud Pezeshkian has stated that, due to issues such as water…
Reformists Returned to Power in the New Government in Iran
Masoud Pezeshkian, who had vowed to form a "national consensus" (vefagh melli) government, could not deliver. Even though a few ministers are from the prior government, the key positions in…
Power Struggle in Iran After the Assassinations
On May 19, 2024, Iran's President, Ebrahim Raisi, met the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, at the Giz Galasi Dam along the two countries' borders to inaugurate the hydroelectric complex…
Ethnics’ Votes Helped Pezeshkian to Win the Presidency in Iran
The low turnout in the past presidential and parliamentary elections warned the clerics in Tehran that their political base has substantially shrunk. To deal with this problem, they passed Masoud…
Iran’s Presidential Election Goes to the Second Round
The first round of Iran's presidential elections was held on June 28 (Tir 8). Despite the government's high propaganda to encourage participation, the turnout was very low, as only 24,535,185…
The Challenge of Presidential Election in Iran
The sudden news of President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crash on May 19 shocked the clerical establishment in Tehran. In that crash, President Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdolahian, and other companions…
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Dies in Helicopter Crash, Leaving Behind a Polarizing Legacy
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash prompts Vice President Mohammad Mokhber to lead, ushering Iran into a period of uncertainty. Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian President, and the…
Iranian Rapper’s Death Sentence Sparks Outrage, Global Rallies
Popular Iranian dissident, rapper and hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, a 33-year-old former factory worker known for his protest songs and social media posts critical of the government of the Islamic…
Handling — and Mishandling — the Iran Nuclear Program
One, erratic and often unhinged, blew up the U.S.-Iran accord that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of President Obama’s second term. He then ordered the assassination of a top…
Who is to Blame for Many-Sided Escalation in Middle-East?
On April 18 the US and UK imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran. On April 17 European Union leaders had talked aggressively about ramping up sanctions on Iran.…
US imposes new sanctions on Iran amid looming threat of Israeli attack
The United States and its imperialist allies will imminently announce new sanctions targeting Iran as the US-led war drive against Tehran continues to accelerate. In a statement Tuesday, US National…
US Asks Iran to Let Israel Strike it “Symbolically”
In what is seen as an unprecedented international diplomatic move, the White House has asked the Tehran government if it would allow Israel to engage in a “symbolic retaliatory strike”…
Israel vows “response” to Iranian strikes, as Gaza genocide continues
Forty-eight hours after Iran launched an airstrike on Israel, Israeli officials offered indications Monday that Israel is preparing military strikes on Iranian targets, as the US-provoked war in the Middle…
Suspending the Rule of Tolerable Violence: Israel’s Attack and Iran’s Retaliation
The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint. Assassinations can take place at…
Iranian Missiles Pass Over Jordan Skies Towards Israel
Israel is under attack by incoming Iranian drones and ballistic missiles. The Jordanian skies lit up with passing missiles and drones as they made their way to Israel. They were…
Finally, Iran Retaliates to Israeli attacks!
Iran made all the due preparations over the last few days and then struck Israel with a mighty series of blows with its drones and cruise missiles. Iran's retaliation was…
Biden gives Israel “ironclad” backing against Iranian retaliatory strike
US President Joe Biden warned yesterday that Iranian retaliation in response to Israel’s highly provocative April 1 attack on Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus was expected “sooner…
Threat of war between Israel and Iran grows as new offensives launched in Gaza
Tensions between Israel and Iran reached new heights Thursday after the United States warned of an “imminent” attack being planned by Tehran. The Iranian regime has said since Israel’s bombing…
Is Tehran Winning the Middle East?
In the midst of Israel’s ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines. In a face-off that, in a sense, has…
Fundamentalists Have the Upper Hand in the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections in Iran
Iran's Parliamentary elections is scheduled to be held on March 1, 2024. The elections will be for the twelfth term of the 290 seats of the Islamic Consultative Majles (House…
Does the Genocide in Gaza Strengthen the Islamic Government in Iran?
On September 22, 2023, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his speech at the UN General Assembly, showed a map of "the New Middle East" and implied that the entire…
Why Do Washington and London Want to Preserve Theocracy in Iran?
Theocracy in Iran is based on a legend that a hidden Imam will resurface on the earth and bring justice to the world. According to Article 5 of the Islamic…
Iranian Regime Braces for Amini Death Anniversary Protests
“Take off your headscarf, let your hair flow, don’t be afraid my love. Laugh, protest against fear.” In opening a panel discussion titled “The Masha Amini Protests and the Road…
Theocracy is Under Attack in Iran
The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by the U.S. and its European allies in the early 2000s alarmed the clerics in Tehran that they may be next to lose power.…
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