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January 29, 2026, 09:55 AM - 3 min read
The refusals complicate potential US military options, as both nations host significant American forces: Saudi Arabia accommodates over 2,300 US troops while the UAE hosts around 5,000 at Al Dhafra Air Base near Abu Dhabi
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January 27, 2026, 10:29 AM - 3 min read
“We have a big armada next to Iran. Bigger than Venezuela,” he said, referring to the naval build-up that preceded the US capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.
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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 23, 2026, 04:18 PM - 3 min read
US officials confirmed that an aircraft carrier strike group – including an aircraft carrier, destroyers, frigates, and support ships – is en route to the Middle East and expected to arrive in the coming days
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January 17, 2026, 11:15 AM - 4 min read
While Trump has since struck a conciliatory note, thanking Iran’s leaders for not executing hundreds of detained protesters, Iranian authorities seem to be in no mood of relenting, with a senior hardline cleric renewing the call for the death penalty for detained demonstrators
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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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January 14, 2026, 06:45 PM - 3 min read
India has urged its citizens to leave Iran and avoid travel as protests intensify, security forces crack down and US warnings raise fears of possible military intervention.
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January 14, 2026, 08:40 AM - 3 min read
Although the authorities in Tehran relaxed some restrictions and allowed international phone calls on Tuesday, a clampdown on the internet services remained in place, making it more difficult for the world outside Iran to gauge the extent of the crackdown.
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January 13, 2026, 09:20 PM - 2 min read
Trump cancels talks with Iranian officials amid protest crackdown, tells Iranians to keep protesting and says “help is on its way”.
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January 13, 2026, 10:22 AM - 3 min read
The US’ embassy in Tehran asked its citizens to leave Iran immediately, in a statement issued on Monday
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