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In the aftermath of the new U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, the transatlantic alliance has offered a response that confirmed what many both in the West and outside knew all along: that for London, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels, the...

WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian young man from ad-Dhahiriya in al-Khalil succumbed Saturday to Israeli gunfire wounds, while another one was injured in an armed settler attack in Masafer Yatta on the same day. According to medical and local sources, 19-year-old Tamer...

News, Israeli violations, Jewish terrorism

WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist settler groups assaulted a Palestinian citizen, damaged his car, and stole two horses belonging to another citizen in separate incidents in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. In the northeast of Ramallah, settlers assaulted a young...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

Missile Crater in Tel Aviv Donald Trump and the neocons are wild with joy tonight over the murder of the Ayatollah Khamenei… This is just one more example of Western ignorance about the implications of the Ayatollah’s martyrdom. Let’s start...

Larry C. Johnson

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into confrontation with Israel and the United States over its nuclear program...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Aqsa Mosque was empty of Muslim worshipers after the Israeli occupation police closed its gates and imposed strict security measures in Jerusalem on Saturday, the 11th day of Ramadan, amid the Zio-American aggression against Iran. Local sources reported...

News, Aqsa closure, Aqsa Mosque

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Majid Asgaripour/West Asian News Agency via Reuters When a girls’ school in the southern Iranian city of Minab was struck yesterday, apparently accidentally, on the opening day of the latest phase of...

After US and Israeli missiles struck Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025, Tehran responded with a limited attack on the American airbase in Qatar. Five years before that, a US drone strike against Qasem Soleimani, head of the powerful Islamic...

Middle East, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Block 2

Iranians in Los Angeles took to the streets to cheer the death of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Saturday, joining protests in support of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran across the North American diaspora. In...

World

Explosions rocked cities across the Gulf on Saturday, killing two people in Abu Dhabi, while smoke and flames rose from Dubai landmark The Palm as Iran launched waves of attacks in retaliation for US and Israeli strikes...

MENA

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 years, has been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on his country, according to US President Donald Trump. Iran did not immediately confirm his death. As one of Iran’s longest-serving leaders, Khamenei...

Middle East, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Block 1

Explosions rocked Dubai's Palm Jumeirah man-made island and drone debris caused a fire at the Burj Al Arab ultra-luxury hotel as waves of Iranian missiles targeted the UAE on Saturday, authorities said. Dubai airport, the...

MENA

Washington torna a minacciare l’Iran combinando propaganda “umanitaria”, sanzioni e dimostrazioni di forza nel Golfo. Dietro l’ipotesi di un attacco si intravede una logica imperiale: proteggere l’ordine regionale centrato su Israele, punire l’autonomia strategica iraniana e intimidire chi prova a...

Italiano, Conflict, Donald Trump

One lie supersedes the next. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper....

Geopolitics, Article, Chris Hedges

You can follow the latest developments of the war. Middle East Eye may not be great, but it is much better than the Western propaganda media such as BBC Follow HERE The post Middle East Eye: Live Reporting on...

Geopolitics, Link, Middle East Eye

After the largest buildup of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, American and Israeli military forces launched a massive assault on Iran on February 28, 2026. President Donald Trump, after calling the attacks “major combat operations”...

Opinion, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Block 3

Some of the most prominent voices within Donald Trump 's MAGA movement spoke out on Saturday against his attack on Iran , warning it could hurt Republicans in November's midterm elections, but there was no immediate sign of...

World

Iran's top security official Ali Shamkhani, whom Israel said was killed on Saturday, rose through the ranks of the Revolutionary Guards and now heads the Defence Council. There was no confirmation from Tehran that Shamkhani was dead, but the...

MENA

The United Nations' rights chief deplored Saturday's strikes in the Middle East and urged all parties to return to negotiations, saying attacks would only result in "death, destruction and human misery". "I deplore the military strikes across Iran...

MENA

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday he was "deeply disturbed" by the Israeli-US attacks on Iran , but also condemned Tehran's retaliatory strikes on the Gulf, demanding action to end the conflict. The confrontation began earlier on Saturday...

MENA

Now that President Trump has launched an illegal, unprovoked war of choice on Iran, the next question inevitably becomes: how does this end? Or, what are some off ramps Trump can take to end it before the situation turns out...

Iran, Israel, Iran-war

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who turned the country into a powerful anti-U.S. force and extended its military influence across the Middle East while crushing repeated domestic unrest, was killed in Israeli and U.S. strikes , a...

MENA

Imperial violence was not invented by Trump. It has been an integral part of this nation’s relationships with the rest of the world from its beginning. However, Trump is more direct in saying out loud what former presidents hesitated to...

Commentary, Featured

Iran called Saturday for an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog to discuss "baseless" US and Israeli claims that Tehran's atomic programme partly justified their military action against it. "In light of ongoing acts of aggression by...

MENA

Iran is a millennial civilization, whose sword is ready to slay the Israeli lion. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su What we know so far It seemed like a distant, grim scenario, but...

Middle East, Security, War and Conflict

Months after the US began building up warships in the Persian Gulf, the US and Israel launched a massive attack on Iran Saturday morning, quickly leading to counterattacks on other countries, a shocking yet predictable move by US...

World

Neither the U.S. nor Israel has even attempted to hide the fact that this aggression is being carried out to facilitate a regime change that they would find amenable to their goals of total domination of the entire region of...

Commentary, Featured

Three residential buildings in and around the Bahraini capital Manama were damaged by drone strikes and debris from an intercepted missile, the interior ministry said on Saturday. Iran has carried out retaliatory strikes across the oil-rich Gulf following...

MENA

TUCSON — ICE terrorizes parts of America. Ice paralyzes much of the rest. Polls turn against a corrupt, climate-denying autocrat who sees the White House as his Versailles Palace and runs roughshod across the globe jabbing big sticks into hornets’...

Opinion, Donald Trump, Epstein files

The US and Israel have launched a war against Iran following months of sabre-rattling and three rounds of negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme. Following the initial strikes that hit targets across western Iran, including the capital Tehran,...

MENA

The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) has accused the Open University (OU) of undermining academic freedom by agreeing to drop the term "ancient Palestine" from its teaching materials under pressure from the pro-Israel lobbying group UK Lawyers for...

World

Oil markets currently closed for the weekend are set to see price swings next week as the impact from the U.S. and Israeli strikes on oil supplies from the Middle East remains unclear. Scenarios before the latest conflict with Iran foresaw...

Energy

The US-Israeli attack on Iran comes just days before Purim , prompting questions about whether the timing of the assault has any symbolic, religious significance and if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to hijack an ancient...

MENA

Tehran has responded to joint American-Israeli air strikes on Iran by targeting US bases in the Gulf with ballistic missiles, which are vital for Washington's military operations in the region. The retaliatory strikes follow from earlier Iranian warnings that all US...

MENA

Hours after the U.S. and Israel launched a campaign of airstrikes across Iran, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is warning vessels in the Persian Gulf via radio that “no ship is allowed to pass the Strait of Hormuz,” according to...

Iran-war, Strait-of-hormuz, Oil

US and Israeli strikes on Iran have triggered one of the most serious regional confrontations in years, with retaliatory attacks spreading across the Gulf and into Iraq. But beyond the exchange of missiles and drones, the public rhetoric...

MENA

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Saturday that his country refused to be dragged into war after Israel and the United States launched strikes against Iran, while the US advised its citizens to leave Lebanon. Authorities fear the Iran-backed Lebanese...

MENA

The US ambassador to Lebanon informed the country that Israel had no intention of escalating hostilities as long as no attacks were launched from Lebanon , the Lebanese presidency said in a statement. The message came as Lebanese...

MENA

A detonation in an ammunition and missile depot in southern Syria's Suweida killed five people on Saturday, state media said, after initial reports blamed an Iranian missile. "The explosion that occurred today in the city of Suweida was caused by the...

MENA
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