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August 20, 2026, 09:55 AM - 2 min read
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the United States is looking for an “honourable exit” from the Middle East while pushing a “new regional order”.
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August 19, 2026, 04:08 PM - 5 min read
Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Major General Ali Abdollahi, on Wednesday warned countries along the southern shores of the Persian Gulf against assisting or facilitating US military forces, saying Tehran was closely monitoring military activity at American bases across the region, according to an official statement cited by IRIB.
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July 22, 2026, 06:27 PM - 7 min read
Trump promised to end America’s forever wars. Ironically, his presidency may instead come to symbolise the evolution of a new kind of forever war without a clearly defined beginning or end. The greatest danger may therefore not be another Iraq. It may be the gradual normalisation of an enduring conflict that repeatedly disappears from the headlines, only to return in new forms because the political conditions necessary for genuine peace have yet to emerge.
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July 14, 2026, 08:47 AM - 2 min read
President Donald Trump has said that he has ordered a complete shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz and reinforcement of Iran’s naval blockade.
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July 10, 2026, 02:18 PM - 6 min read
Khamenei’s funeral was designed as a powerful political and diplomatic tool to project defiance and continued resistance against what Iran has called “global arrogance”. The government aimed to demonstrate its legitimacy, regional reach, public support and continued mobilising capacity despite the isolation efforts of its enemies. This mission seems to have been accomplished.
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July 9, 2026, 05:18 PM - 5 min read
From shrinking reservoirs to sinking cities, Iran's environmental breakdown is emerging as a profound structural challenge for the country.
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June 22, 2026, 08:43 AM - 2 min read
While both sides announced significant progress made in the peace talks, mediators Pakistan and Qatar said Iran has taken “encouraging steps” on the first day of high-level negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland.
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June 19, 2026, 06:44 PM - 4 min read
Netanyahu stressed that safeguarding communities along Israel's northern frontier remains a top priority and said continued military deployment in southern Lebanon is essential to that objective.
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June 16, 2026, 04:10 PM - 7 min read
The current 60-day deferral is not a resolution. It is the same unsolved problem with a clock attached. The Strait is open, the oil is flowing, and the question the war was fought over sits exactly where it began. Thousands of lives were lost to arrive back to square one. Nobody has won, though both sides will say they did.
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June 13, 2026, 07:46 PM - 3 min read
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said a peace agreement between the United States and Iran could be finalised within the next 24 hours. However, Iran later said that while a deal could be signed in the coming days, no timeline has been finalised and the proposed agreement will not be signed on Saturday.
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June 11, 2026, 12:49 PM - 6 min read
Iran’s leaders are seemingly determined to turn the tables on their adversaries and humiliate them. Whether they succeed will depend on what Trump does next – and what he’s willing to compromise on to bring Iran to the table for a lasting, mutually acceptable agreement.
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June 10, 2026, 02:32 PM - 6 min read
Iran is trying to establish a new regional order, based on new rules. And it might just pull it off. The first notable feature of this order is that Iran dictates to Israel and the US what they may and may not do.
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