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February 17, 2026, 08:17 AM - 3 min read
The source indicated that India is keen to ensure its waters are not utilised for ship-to-ship transfers designed to conceal the origin of oil cargoes.
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February 16, 2026, 01:30 PM - 2 min read
Takht-Ravanchi joins a growing list of senior officials calling for renewed nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran, warning that war would be catastrophic for the region and serve nobody’s interests.
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February 13, 2026, 01:04 PM - 10 min read
Today, the Iranian economy is in poor shape, despite the oil revenues that hold it back from the brink of collapse. People are unhappy with high unemployment rates, hyper-inflation and never-ending sanctions.
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January 30, 2026, 03:46 PM - 8 min read
Iran is a “threshold state”—a country with the technical capacity to produce nuclear weapons but that has not crossed the final line of production. A destabilised threshold state poses three risks: loss of centralised command over nuclear material and scientists, incentives for factions to monetise or export expertise, and acceleration logic—actors racing to secure deterrence before collapse.
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January 25, 2026, 02:25 PM - 4 min read
Crucially, the Board does not even explicitly mention Gaza, the very crisis it claims to address. This is not a small omission. Gaza was the moral and political justification for the initiative. Removing it from the formal mandate points toward a shift from humanitarian responsibility.
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January 25, 2026, 02:09 PM - 6 min read
The US has pushed the UNHRC to pass a resolution against the alleged violation of human rights taking place in Iran. Shouldn’t a similar resolution be brought against the United States for the way ICE officials have been treating people, even killing them wantonly? There cannot be more brutal, ruthless and inhuman abuse of force against people than the ICE is resorting to people in the name of identifying and deporting the “illegal immigrants”.
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January 25, 2026, 01:37 PM - 7 min read
Once silenced by the Islamic Republic, Googoosh now voluntarily withholds her voice in solidarity. The 75-year-old Iranian megastar’s refusal to sing is not a sign of hesitation but a conscious political gesture—one that draws its force from her singular position in Iran’s cultural history. Many see this refusal as a reclamation of her agency; with Iran again roiled by mass mobilisation and protest, her silence resonates as loudly as her songs once did.
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January 18, 2026, 01:32 PM - 8 min read
For the ruling establishment, the unrest is portrayed as a foreign-engineered plot. For the opposition, the same events are framed as a nationwide uprising rooted in long-standing grievances.
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January 17, 2026, 09:32 PM - 3 min read
India has urged Iran to grant consular access to 16 Indian crew members of oil tanker MT Valiant Roar, seized in international waters near the UAE last month, as New Delhi presses Tehran to allow communication with families and ensure the sailors’ welfare.
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January 16, 2026, 01:34 PM - 3 min read
The situation has become critical following a nationwide communication blackout. Parents back in Kerala say they are terrified because they can no longer call their children directly.
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January 15, 2026, 05:41 PM - 6 min read
While Trump is scripting his own rules across the globe, it will be the most ill-advised thing to do if he decides to deal with Iran the same way the US dealt with Iraq and Afghanistan.
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January 15, 2026, 04:31 PM - 6 min read
Tehran knows that foreign involvement would change the nature of the crisis. A domestic protest movement would quickly turn into an international conflict. That shift would serve outside powers far more than it would help the people protesting on the streets.
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