Trump backs Hormuz alternative but his Iran war is blocking the route

September 25, 2026

US has revived talk of the IMEC, the India-Europe trade corridor, but it remains on paper due to the conflict in the Middle East

This Group Made Tech to Protect Users’ Privacy. Trump Labeled Them Terrorists.

September 24, 2026
Cody Bloomfield
Trump’s war on the left is coming for anti-surveillance technology providers.

Oil prices fall as Iran says it is open to diplomacy to end the war

September 24, 2026
Jeslyn Lerh and Arathy Somasekhar
SINGAPORE, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Oil prices retreated on Thursday after climbing 4% in the previous session as Iran said it remained open to diplomacy to end the US-Iran war, though the two countries remain far apart on ways to do so. 

Senate Narrowly Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution

September 24, 2026

Dave DeCamp

The vote doesn't negate a concurrent War Powers Resolution that was previously passed by both chambers and directed President Trump to end the war

Screenshot of Cspan broadcast during the vote

The Stalemate With Iran Is Not Sustainable

September 23, 2026
Richard Haass and Carolyn Kissane

A Diplomatic Strategy to End the War

 

گیاهان مفید برای سلامتی‌

فعال‌ترین عضو بدن ما انسان‌ها مغز ماست، که حتی در زمان خواب نیز مشغول فعالیت است. شاید بتوان بینی‌ را نیز در همان حدّ فعال دانست، چرا که ما همواره در حال تنفس می‌باشیم. قلب نیز همیشه در حال طپش است، پس این هم عضو فعال دیگری است. در واقع اگر به تک‌تک اعضائ بدن خود بی‌اندیشیم، کلیهٔ اندام داخلی‌ بدن، و چند عضو بیرونی، همواره در کنش و واکنش می‌باشند. زمانی‌ که نشسته‌ایم، به نظر می‌رسد که پاهایمان بیحرکت و ساکن هستند. ولی‌ در داخل پاها، و کلیهٔ اعضائ بدن ما همیشه و حتی موقع خواب فعالیت در جریان است، و تنها در زمان مرگ دیگر کنشی در اعضائ بدن وجود ندارد.

Live: Rubio says US open to meeting Iranian officials at UN

September 22, 2026
Key Points

• France welcomes Pakistan’s mediation efforts between Iran and the US
• Pezeshkian says people cannot be forced into submission through military pressure
• Saudi Arabia issues an alert in Najran as Houthi attacks on the kingdom continue

 

Live: Rubio says US open to meeting Iranian officials at UN

September 22, 2026
Lorenzo Maria Pacini
The Twelve-Day War, targeted assassinations, and U.S.-Israeli strikes have replaced proxy violence.

 

Iran's war economy is squeezing the wrong people

9/21/2026
Amir Hossein Mohaddes
Washington’s blockade is draining Iran’s revenues, but Tehran still decides how the burden is shared. Fuel hikes, weak price controls, and scarce currency for luxury imports risk shifting costs onto ordinary households instead of those higher up the economic ladder.

The Economics of Destruction

9/21/2026
Joan Robinson
We are sitting around discussing ideas totally beside the point. The important question is not whether the rate of inflation is high or low or can be brought under control but whether our generation will succeed in destroying the world. We are seeing the supply of arms pile up as the Americans and Soviets advance from one missile system to the next. This same threat lies before the next generation. We should realize that the stockpiling of destruction precedes discussion of inflation and unemployment. The arms race is too serious a matter for us to be content to dispute economic theories that float off into the stratosphere.

What are Iran’s latest conditions to end its war with the US?

September 20, 2026
Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei has laid out Tehran’s latest set of conditions to end its war with the United States.

 

Iranian army says it received intel of imminent US attacks backed by regional states

September 20, 2026

Tehran said it will strike US assets across the region 'without limitations' if new attacks are launched by Washington

Iran & Reaping the Russian Whirlwind – Interview of Touraj Atabaki

September 19, 2026
Fariba Amini

“Russia cannot be understood with mind alone” – Fyodor Tyutchev

An unaffordable car market highlights Iran’s cost-of-living crisis

September 19, 2026
Maziar Motamedi

Some officials and state media have long openly described the industry as a ‘mafia’ system that transfers costs to households.

Cars and motorcycles are seen in front of a billboard displaying the Iranian flag

Stuxnet Versus Skynet

September 17, 2026
Joseph L. Flatley

The AI apocalypse may not require “conscious” machines at all, but only supercharged digital attack worms like the one released against Iran in 2010.

 

We don't need intelligent machines in order to bring about an AI apocalypse. (Adobe Stock)

The Houthis could tip the Iran war in Tehran's favor

September 18, 2026
Paul R. Pillar

Rapid changes on the ground in Yemen are a serious setback for Washington's military effort

‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe US committed war crimes in Iran – UN

September 17, 2026

Indiscriminate attacks, such as the strike on an elementary school in Minab, went beyond negligence, a new report has found

Iran war live: UN mission says US likely committed war crimes in Iran

September 17, 2026
Stephen Quillen, Federica Marsi, Mahmoud Sayed and Tracy J. Jawad

• US President Donald Trump says he’s approaching a crucial decision on whether to “annihilate” his Iranian foes.
• The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says fighting along Yemen’s Red Sea coast has displaced an estimated 125,000 people.
• A UN fact-finding mission has found “reasonable grounds” to believe the US was behind two attacks in Iran, including on a school in Minab in February, which it says constituted war ⁠crimes.
  
• Yemeni government forces are trying to prevent Houthi advances on several fronts, including the strategically important Kahbub mountains near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and Taiz, with Saudi Arabia providing air strike support in areas around the city.
• Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi has described Saudi claims that a drone attack targeted Mecca as “an ugly lie” and said his fighters are primarily targeting Saudi military sites and oil infrastructure.
• Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif says the time has come to implement the Mecca mutual defence agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkiye following Houthi attacks on the kingdom.
• One ⁠person ⁠has been killed and two ⁠others injured in a drone ⁠interception in Saudi Arabia’s southwest governorate of Taif, reported ‌Saudi state TV.

When Britain Used Torture to Control the Strait of Hormuz

September 16, 2026
Amaar Chowdhury
Amaar Chowdhury reports on the emergence of new details about the extreme measures that British soldiers used to support a Gulf autocrat.

 

Map of Oman for use on Wikivoyage, English version. (Burmesedays / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0)

انقلاب‌ها

انقلاب آمریکا در دو و نیم قرن پیش، جرقه بسیاری از انقلاب‌های دیگر در سراسر جهان، به‌ویژه انقلاب‌های فرانسه، روسیه، کوبا و چین را زد. هر یک از این انقلاب‌ها — و بسیاری دیگر — سیمای اجتماعی، سیاسی، اقتصادی و جغرافیایی جهان را دگرگون کردند. یکی از این انقلابات که به چهل و هفت سال پیش بازمی‌گردد و گرچه اخیراً کمتر در صدر اخبار بوده اما پیامدهایش هر از گاهی خود را نشان می‌دهند، انقلاب ایران است. در دهه گذشته، تقریباً هر دو هفته یک‌بار شاهد تعاملاتی میان دولت‌های غربی و حکومتی بوده‌ایم که حدود نیم قرن پیش از دل آن انقلاب سر برآورد. مسئله هسته‌ای ایران جدیدترین مورد از مسائل متعددی است که پس از انقلاب سال پنجاه و هفت رخ داده است؛ مسائلی همچون بحران گروگان‌گیری، ماجرای ایران-کانترا و جنگ با عراق، که تنها چند نمونه از آن‌ها به شمار می‌روند. بمب‌های دولت ترامپ و عکس‌العمل دولت ایران با از بین بردن تسلیحات نظامی آمریکا در منطقه، پیشروی اسرائیل در مناطق فلسطینی با سلاح‌های آمریکا، و جنگ‌های متفرقه در مناطق دیگر دنیا، خبر از یک جنگ جهانی‌ جدید می‌دهند که همواره در زمان افت یک قدرت جهانی‌ (آمریکا) و گسترش نیروی جهانی‌ دیگر (چین) تاریخ بارها شاهد آن بوده است.ا