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February 19, 2026, 09:03 AM - 2 min read
There are reports that the US President is weighing whether to take military action against Tehran as the administration surges military resources to the region, raising concerns that any attack could spiral into a larger conflict in the Middle East.
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February 18, 2026, 06:35 PM - 2 min read
Even as diplomatic efforts continue, Washington has increased its military presence in the Middle East. More than 50 F-35, F-22 and F-16 fighter jets were reportedly deployed to the region within 24 hours, and President Donald Trump ordered a second aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, to the area.
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February 17, 2026, 06:34 PM - 3 min read
US President Donald Trump, repeatedly, threatened to use force to compel Iran to agree to halt its nuclear programme. To this, Iran has said it would respond with an attack of its own.
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February 17, 2026, 01:28 PM - 3 min read
Tehran has expressed cautious optimism over what it describes as Washington’s slightly more realistic stance on its nuclear programme, which Iran has vowed to continue despite Trump’s repeated threats.
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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 15, 2026, 09:09 AM - 3 min read
United States President Donald Trump had warned Tehran that failure to reach an agreement with his administration would be "very traumatic".
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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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