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For Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the defence of Palestine was never a circumstantial matter of foreign policy. Rather, it constituted the enduring axis of his political, diplomatic and strategic vision throughout nearly four decades as Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Palestinian cause has ceased to be merely…

As Iran pushes for a new transit fee system and Oman explores possible frameworks to ease maritime tensions, legal interpretations, regional cooperation, and demands for transparency remain central to any viable solution for one of the world’s most strategic shipping routes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes appeared intended to project confidence and control to an American audience. Instead, much of the Israeli press saw something else entirely: a leader visibly worn down, politically disoriented, evasive on responsibility, and increasingly trapped by the accumulating consequences of the wars in Gaza and Iran…

VANCOUVER — I am writing these words as I watch with tearful eyes the live funeral procession of the martyred Leader of Iran, the late Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Like countless Iranians abroad, I wish I could stand among the millions who are gathering to bid him farewell. Distance may keep me from the funeral,…

Tensions between the United States and Cuba are escalating as sanctions tighten, deepening the island’s economic and humanitarian crisis amid growing regional concern.

TEHRAN - Throughout history, political turmoil and national betrayal have often been linked, and Lebanon today is no exception. It faces a dangerous moment where its own officials are making deals that serve Israeli interests.

A high-stakes confrontation stretching from Washington to Tehran, with the Gulf caught in the middle as global powers recalibrate their strategies.

The post-February 2026 war period marks a new phase in US–Iran relationship, a relationship of strange diplomatic impasse characterized by no war, nor peace, but a rotating cycle of ceasefire announcements, Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs), and intermittent exchanges of fire across the Strait of Hormuz. This situation indicates structural problems that both sides are unprepared…

As U.S.-Iran negotiations intensify, Lebanon faces mounting pressure over Hezbollah’s future, Israel’s security demands, and a fragile regional balance that could redefine power across the Middle East.

The Syrian revolution was fought in order to tear down a predatory police state, not to replace it with a replica under a different banner. However, the horrific, blood-soaked dungeons of the Assad era have simply been rebranded under the sleek, corporate security apparatus of the new President, suited and booted Ahmed Al-Sharaa. As dawn…

A U.S.-hosted framework advances dual-track negotiations in Washington, linking ceasefire arrangements, border withdrawal, and security mechanisms under American coordination.

TEHRAN — The document signed in Washington on June 26 under American “mediation” was celebrated in Western capitals as a historic breakthrough, even though it is a crude instrument of asymmetric warfare designed to secure an indefinite Israeli military presence.

Rising security incidents, espionage cases, and sectarian incitement highlight deeper structural challenges facing regional stability

In a seminal article, entitled “Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes,” Stephen Stedman writes that “peacemaking is a risky business.” The greatest source of risk “comes from spoilers—leaders and parties who believe that peace emerging from negotiations threatens their power, worldview and interests, and use violence to undermine attempts to achieve it.” Spoilers can be inside…

A tense confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz and the Beijing summit expose a new global order where maritime security, trade routes, and superpower rivalry collide, turning a regional chokepoint into a mirror of 21st-century geopolitics.

By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT, June 29 (Reuters) - A security deal between Israel and Lebanon risks entrenching a stalemate rather than resolving Israel's underlying conflict with Hezbollah by tying Israel's pullout from southern Lebanon to the Iran-aligned group's disarmament, a condition regional analysts and politicians say is unattainable. At its core is a bargain few…

As Lebanon’s parliament debates a long-delayed general amnesty law, the “Shiite Duo” faces scrutiny over its cautious stance, with lawmakers highlighting disputes over detainees, drug-related cases, and controversial files linked to Israel.

By Hasnain Naqvi The 10th of Muharram (Ashura), the global collective conscience reaches the shattering climax of Karbala. On this day in 680 CE, Imam Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, alongside his family and a meagre band of 72 companions, stood ground against the massive, tyrannical army of the Umayyad caliph…

Behind claims of liberation and Islamic revival lies a complex reality of authoritarian control, ideological expansion, and lessons the world cannot afford to ignore.

There are many who think Trump’s about face on Iran, virtually embracing the radical Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (now the IRGC is linked up to CENTCOM in Doha, Qatar) is a sellout of US and allied forces, not to mention the now-frequent denunciations of Benjamin Netanyahu by the president and by Vice President JD Vance…

Those remaining within the Iranian regime have no objective beyond self-preservation. Does Hezbollah in Lebanon recognize this, or does it remain beholden to the Revolutionary Guard, which has come to embody and dominate the Iranian regime? The direct negotiations between the “Islamic Republic” and the “Great Satan,” held in Islamabad and mediated …

The world sighed in relief when Donald Trump agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to finally end the conflict with Iran on June 17. But there is now a palpable feeling that hostilities are far from over. The agreement between Washington and Tehran, signed at Versailles on June 18, is better understood as a…

Europe may be on the brink of a major “liberation revolution” from American technological dependency in the coming months. Like most “revolutions” in the continent’s history, it began in France, where authorities decided to replace the Windows system in their administrations with Linux, following months of replacing Microsoft Teams with the French …

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has every right to condition European relations with any other country or bloc on respect for human rights. That, of course, would hold true if she genuinely cared about such values herself. In response to the June 19 signing of the memorandum of understanding between the United States…

Six missiles were launched by elements of the “Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps” from Lebanon toward northern Israel on March 2nd. This added to Lebanon’s existing losses: about ten thousand casualties between dead and injured, 1.2 million displaced people, increased destruction in areas where Hezbollah is present, and a vast number of tragedies. …

Iran has emerged undefeated after nearly four months of war against a nuclear-armed regional rival (Israel) and the world’s most powerful military (the United States). The regime is still in control of its population and territory. Though its economy is suffering, Iran’s industrial base is still churning out missiles, drones and rockets. Many of Tehran’s…

While attention is focused on Islamabad, awaiting the outcome of diplomacy between Washington and Tehran, Iran remains overshadowed by the “Twelve-Day War” complex, which has become a practical model for President Trump’s policy, as described by reformist journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin. The United States begins by setting a hopeful tone, then s…

Israel’s politicians and generals have a strategy: not security, not coexistence. It is the oldest colonial formula in history: seize the land, expel the indigenous population, and then call the defenders terrorists. On March 16, Israel invaded South Lebanon under the pretext of protecting its Jewish-only colonies in the north. At first, it was a…

The Saudi leadership is taking the ongoing U.S.-Iranian negotiations, brokered by Pakistan, very seriously, even though it is not directly part of them. However, not having a seat at the negotiating table does not mean Saudi Arabia is out of the equation, as its national interests and national security remain central to the calculations of…

Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for an alternative war. After his room for action against Iran became limited, and after Washington began pressuring Israel to restrain its actions in southern Lebanon, Gaza seems to be the only battlefield left for him. He needs a war to survive politically. He needs an open front to escape domestic…

Now that an initial diplomatic deal between the US and Iran has been signed and intensive negotiations are under way to fully end the war, Congress should do everything possible to ensure this agreement is fully implemented. While the agreement is likely to have imperfections—thanks in large part to President Donald Trump harming US leverage…

When looking at today’s Middle East, it is important to recognize that Israel is completely out of control, and no one has the will to rein them in. This should have been understood back in July of 2024, in the waning days of the Biden administration, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington…

As we faced a barbaric aggression in Gaza, overflowing with Talmudic hatred and Nazi-like conduct, and as we waited every moment for heavy, devastating, and incendiary bombs to strike without warning, [at the onset of the 12-day war in June 2025,] we watched with deep anguish the Zionist-American aggression against a Muslim country that had…

The mainstream media has no problem guesstimating the deaths (500,000) from the Assad dictatorship’s civil war in Syria, nor the estimated deaths in the wars in Ukraine, Sudan or Iran. Somehow, media editors do not let their investigative reporters assess the extent of Israel’s mass murder of civilians in Gaza — an exposed, defenseless population…

The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) has hailed the recent memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States as a monumental victory for the Axis of Resistance, signaling a decisive shift in the balance of power against imperialism.

Siasat-e-Rooz devoted its editorial to one of the clauses in the recent understanding, which requires ending the war on all fronts of the Resistance Axis — a clause Israel has violated. According to the paper, if Trump cannot or does not want to restrain the Zionist regime, Iran can easily discipline it to ensure compliance…

TEHRAN – The memorandum of understanding signed on Wednesday between Tehran and Washington marks the clearest political acknowledgment yet of Iran’s victory in the joint US‐Israeli aggression that began on February 28. What started as a massive military campaign aimed at destroying Iran’s military capabilities and collapsing the Islamic Republic has ended with Washington accepting…

By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT, June 18 (Reuters) - The U.S.-Iran agreement — the first signed by an American and an Iranian president since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution — is being hailed by its backers as the deal of the century. But for Tehran's adversaries across the Middle East — from Israel to Gulf states and…

Following the ‘Second Imposed War’—the 12-day conflict in June 2025—and the subsequent 106-day period encompassing the ‘Third Imposed War’ and its aftermath, launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on 28 February 2026, Iran has emerged as the unequivocal strategic, defensive, and narrative victor. Crucially, this reality has been openly conceded by think…

Iran did not win the war. But it denied Washington and Tel Aviv the victory they needed most: the power to decide what the war had made of Iran. The recent US-Iran memorandum of understanding is important for that reason. It is designed to end the near four-month war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz gradually…

There are many lessons to be learned from the lates made-for-Israel war on Iran. The first and most damning is that the war resolved the very crisis it created. Donald Trump celebrated the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of the blockade against Iran. Two conditions that were fully in place before…

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.

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz gave a clear example of what happens when colonialism in its current form – with genocide as its armour – is capable of when left unchecked. On Monday this week, Katz declared that Israel will not withdraw from territories it occupied in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. The superficial reason given…

The announcement of a new agreement between the United States and Iran has been greeted with relief across global markets. Oil prices have eased, shipping insurers have relaxed and politicians have rushed to hail a diplomatic breakthrough. The memorandum of understanding, which both sides have agreed to and are expected to formally sign in Switzerland…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on a collision course with Donald Trump as the U.S. president seeks to extricate himself from the war, with both men's goals unmet and Israeli military operations tied down in Lebanon. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,…

The world is watching a remarkable possibility emerge from one of the most dangerous geopolitical rivalries of the modern era: a potential US–Iran agreement that could ease regional tensions, reopen economic channels, reduce military escalation, and create a pathway away from perpetual confrontation. Yet as diplomats inch towards compromise, the greatest threat to the deal…

By Matt Spetalnick and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - With an agreement on a framework for a peace deal with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump may have found a way to begin extricating himself from an unpopular war while setting global markets on a path toward easing energy prices that have spiked during…

TEHRAN – In this new era of colonial domination, a constant stream of shifting and contradictory falsehoods distorts reality, creating confusion and making it increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from deception.