TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s caretaker defense minister highlighted the superiority of the country’s homegrown technology and equipment compared to imported systems in the region.
Petty thefts of basic food items are becoming a symbol of Iran's economic hardship, according to a newspaper investigation published on Wednesday that linked supermarket shoplifting to inflation and shrinking purchasing power.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army is in full readiness, the Army’s spokesman said, stressing efforts to enhance it combat capability.
They were among seven members of Iran's team to be granted humanitarian visas while in Australia for the Women's Asian Cup - but the other five changed their minds and returned home.
Eight wounded in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon's Burj Shemali as talks enter third day Eight people have been wounded in an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese town of Burj Shemali, the country's health ministry is reporting. Earlier today, Israeli forces escalated attacks on southern Lebanon, with state media reporting a "wide-scale aggression" on the city of Tyre. MEE reported earlier that, as a result of the strikes across several areas in the city, four people were wounded and transferred to nearby hospitals.
Iran has intensified its repression of ethnic minorities, particularly Kurdish and Baluch communities, through arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances and executions, a group of UN human rights experts said on Thursday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected reports that tens of thousands of people were killed in the January protest crackdown, accusing those publishing higher death tolls of misleading the public.
Under the proposed agreement Tehran would control inbound traffic according to reports Understanding reached on coordinates for shipping route through Hormuz, Iran says Pakistan , which has played a key role in mediating talks between the US and Iran, said it hopes the Hormuz deal will pave the way for the resumption of talks under the memorandum of understanding signed by both countries in June. “We hope that the agreement on the strait will pave the way for continuing dialogue, particularly the resumption of technical level talks between Iran and the United States,” foreign ministry spokesman Tahir Andrabi said at a press briefing today. Continue reading...
Settler terrorism is the modern incarnation of the Zionist dream Submitted by Fadi Zatari on Tue, 08/04/2026 - 16:22 Israel's brutal campaign of apartheid and displacement is putting unbearable pressure on the indigenous Palestinian population An armed Israeli settler is seen in the occupied West Bank village of Ras Ein al-Auja, whose Bedouin community was displaced earlier this year, on 22 April 2026 (Ilia Yefimovich/AFP) On Decades before the Zionist movement’s inception in the late 19th century, the German Jewish thinker Moses Hess proposed in his contentious manuscript Rome and Jerusalem: The Last National Question (1862) that a Jewish state be established through settlements in Palestine as “socialist agricultural communities”. He promoted the colonisation of Palestine, viewing the Holy Land as a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Empire; merely an empty land that should be utilised in the interests of the “Jewish nation”. Twenty years later, in 1882, the Russian Jewish thinker Leon Pinsker published a pamphlet titled “ Auto-Emancipation ”, in which he pronounced: “The land which we are about to purchase must be productive and have a good situation, and an area sufficient to allow the settlement of several millions.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A member of Yemen’s Ansarullah emphasized that Yemen will not back down from its equations and that the only way for Saudi Arabia is to end the current crisis is to give back Yemenis’ rights.
The public execution of two protesters in Isfahan has renewed calls for the German city of Freiburg to end its 25-year twinning with the Iranian city, with activists arguing the partnership lends legitimacy to a state punishing dissent with death penalty.
Two former members of Iran’s women’s national football team who refused to sing the Islamic Republic’s anthem during the AFC Women’s Asian Cup became Australian citizens in Brisbane on Wednesday.
Washington DC [US], August 6 (ANI): US President Donald Trump has slammed reports claiming that American military stockpiles have been significantly depleted during the Iran conflict, saying the United States has 'massive amounts' of munitions and warning that individuals who leaked information about military inventories would face prosecution and lengthy prison sentences.
In Iran, the authorities call it a scheduled outage. The electricity will be disconnected for two hours. The water may return later in the evening.
President Donald Trump earlier suggested that the incompetence of local authorities was behind the problems, rather than Iran Hackers have targeted water and wastewater utilities in at least a dozen US states, ABC News has reported, citing multiple sources.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – US President Donald Trump believes Secretary of War Pete Hegseth misled him about American weapons stockpiles depleted during the war against Iran, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing sources in the US administration.
Morning update Good morning Middle East Eye readers, Here are some the latest updates from across the region: US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Washington is holding talks with Tehran and would prefer an agreement over further military action against Iran. "I would rather make a deal with Iran because I don’t want to kill people," he said during an event in in Las Vegas. A tanker 9 nautical miles south east of Oman's Kumzar reported hearing two blasts while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said early on Thursday.
Israel considering military escalation in south Lebanon, despite peace talks Israeli reports are suggesting that there are considerations for additional military attacks in Lebanon, as the army prepares for further escalation in the country despite ongoing peace talks. Israel's public broadcaster said that the army's response to what it described as Hezbollah violation "has not ended", with "sensitive operations" likely underway. Plans for an escalation in southern Lebanon has been brewing across Israeli news media, with Channel 13 reporting plans on additional strikes in the coming hours.
Israeli violence escalating in the West Bank, several left wounded in settler arson attacks An uptick of Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank has been reported by local media, with overnight raids leaving several injured, properties damaged and water supplies disrupted. A number of residents - including children and women - were wounded and faced suffocation after settlers launched arson attacks on Khirbet al-Tuwaiba in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. Settlers have fenced off land belonging to Palestinians in the northern part of the Jordan Valley.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – With the Zionist regime’s continued obstruction of efforts towards securing the release of Farah Abu Ayyash, the captivity of the Palestinian journalist of the Tasnim News Agency has reached one year.
