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نزدیک به پنجاه سال پیشدر خانه‌ای دو طبقه در قیطریه شمیران سکونت داشتم. طبقهٔ بالا در اختیار خانواده‌ام بود و طبقهٔ پائین را اجاره داده بودم. یکبار مستاجر جدیدی از طریق آژانس املاک مراجعه، و خود را مهندس وحدتی، مدیر یک شرکت ساختمانی معرفی‌ نمود. قرار شد که وی و همسر و یک دخترش در این طبقه سکونت نمایند. در مورد میزان اجاره هم حساسیتی نشان نداد و گفت می‌تواند اجارهٔ شش ماه را هم یکباره پرداخت نماید.ا

LIVE BLOG: Israel Closes Netzarim | Mobilization on Lebanese-Israeli Border – Day 478

January 26, 2025

Israel continues to maintain a closure around Netzarim despite earlier commitments to withdraw.

Meanwhile, heightened military mobilization along the Israeli-Lebanese border is accompanied by Israeli forces opening fire on civilians attempting to return to their towns.

 

Thousands of displaced Palestinians seek to return to northern Gaza. (Photo: via social media, QNN)

Female Israeli soldiers 'wave and smile' during release by Hamas in Gaza

January 25, 2025

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas released four female Israeli soldiers on 25 January, while Israel is releasing some 200 Palestinians as part of a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending Israel's war on Gaza.

 

Trump’s assault on immigrants is coming—here’s what you need to know

January 25, 2025

Taya Graham and Stephen Janis

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised that, if elected, “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America.” Trump’s administration has wasted no time since re-entering the White House on Monday, and communities around the US are currently bracing for a wave of ICE raids. In plans that were publicly leaked ahead of Trump’s inauguration, the city of Chicago was identified as a key target for immigration raids, putting immigrant residents and their neighbors on high alert. To discuss the impending threat to Chicago and cities around the country, and how communities can fight back, The Real News speaks with Moises Zavala, Workplace Justice Campaigns Organizer for Arise Chicago, and Natascha Elena Uhlmann, a writer for Labor Notes and immigrant rights activist from Sonora, Mexico.

 

As Gaza Ceasefire takes hold, Israeli Forces turn to Jenin – a regular Target seen as a Center of Palestinian Resistance

January 24, 2025

Maha Nassar

(The Conversation) – Just two days after a shaky ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel on Jan. 21, 2025, launched a large-scale incursion of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.

 

Russia and the Trump Doctrine: Adapting to the ‘Rules of the Strong’

January 24, 2025

Sergey Strokan

The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States is this week’s main news story, not only in America but also in domestic Russian politics. Though all eyes on that day were fixed on Trump, it is telling that he also became the subject of intense discussions in this country, ranging from political circles to ordinary kitchen conversations. This is no anomaly — it is entirely logical.

A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship

January 23, 2025

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order.

 

Israel continues Jenin raid as two Palestinians killed in West Bank

January 23, 2025

Israeli soldiers have killed two more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as they continue a military assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp.

 

Palestinian women sit across from the rubble of a house where two Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in Burqin village near Jenin in the occupied West Bank. [AFP]

For optimists: On the impossibility of global peace under capitalism

January 23, 2025

Murat K. Girgin

Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, as the founders of the theories of Capitalism and Imperialism, explained the dynamics of historical events–once perceptible only as patterns–through the lens of “the science of political economy.” Therefore, when discussing concepts like war or peace, it becomes essential to lend an ear to these two figures and their successors, dust off their books from the shelves, and start revisiting their ideas.

 

Death toll in Gaza rises as ceasefire allows rescuers to search rubble

January 22, 2025

Mera Aladam

As people in Gaza scour what remains of their homes and land following the ceasefire that took effect on Sunday, victims of Israel's heavy bombardment campaign since 7 October 2023 are being recovered from beneath the rubble. 

 

A boy rides his bicycle past destroyed infrastructure east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 21 January 2025 (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

Sanders Blasts Trump for Ignoring 'Virtually Every Important Issue Facing Working Families'

January 22, 2025

Jake Johnson

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump posed in a garbage truck and performed a staged shift at a McDonald's as he postured as a champion of the working class.

 

 U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is pictured at President Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump Reportedly Resuming Shipments of 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel

January 21, 2025

Sharon Zhang

President Donald Trump is slated to resume shipments of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, reports say, despite the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal having been implemented the day before his inauguration on Monday and Israel’s extensive use of the bombs on civilian areas.

 

 Smoke rises from a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike at the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on January 12, 2025. Eyad Baba / AFP via Getty Images

Palestinians Dig 68 More Bodies Out of Gaza Rubble, Raising Death Toll

January 21, 2025

Dave DeCamp

On Tuesday, Palestinians in Gaza continued digging bodies out of the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas entered its third day.

Palestinians search building rubble in a destroyed neighborhood of Rafah, Gaza, on January 21, 2025, as residents return following a ceasefire deal (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect)

In the West Bank, Palestinian unemployment is now Israeli policy

January 21, 2025

Haitham S.

Ever since the beginning of Israel’s assault on Gaza in October 2023, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been suffering from an acute unemployment crisis. In the first six months of the war, the unemployment rate nearly tripled, with over 300,000 workers losing their main source of income. 

 

Israeli settlers harass Palestinian residents of Khirbet Zanuta, South Hebron Hills, occupied West Bank. (Oren Ziv)

7 Reasons Why Age and Alcohol Don’t Mix

January 3, 2025

Sonya Collins

As you add more candles to your birthday cakes, you may notice that your organs don’t work as efficiently as they once did. Your balance might not be as good, and your response time may not be as quick. Perhaps you have more aches and pains than you did last year.

 

Unknown heroes: Memories of a Gaza first responder

January 20, 2025

Mustafa Al-Jarou

Editor’s Note: This reflection was written before the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza on January 15, 2025.

 

 First responders and civilians look for survivors amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 14, 2023, (Photo: Bashar Taleb/APA Images)

Progressives Say "Billionaires' Row" at Inauguration Ceremony Shows True Winners of Trump Agenda

January 20, 2025

Jake Johnson

While President-elect Donald Trump is expected to hail the "start of a thrilling new era of national success" during his inaugural speech on Monday, progressives said the presence of some of the nation's most powerful billionaires at the event signals that the incoming administration's agenda will prioritize the success the country's wealthiest.

 

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L), Apple CEO Tim Cook (C), and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (R) attend services as part of Inauguration ceremonies at St. John's Church on January 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death

January 20, 2025

Kathy Kelly

Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated to holding accountable four weapon manufacturing corporations based in the U.S. Their tribunal amassed copious evidence to prove that Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon) and General Atomics (a company which manufactures weaponized drones) are guilty of committing war crimes. On January 15, 2025, as the world marks the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, a press conference announced the Tribunal’s verdicts and release the report of ten international jurors who have weighed the evidence submitted to them.

 

 President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence look on at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on MLK day in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2020. NICHOLAS KAMM /AFP via Getty Images

LIVE BLOG: Abu Obeida: The Sacrifices and Blood of Our People Will Not Be in Vain – Day 471

January 19, 2025

 Killed             Wounded          Missing

46,876              110,642            11.000

After 471 days of relentless massacres of innocent Palestinians by Israel, alongside legendary steadfastness and resistance, a ceasefire in Gaza officially begins.

Israel, however, has already violated the agreement by bombing targets across the Gaza Strip and killing several Palestinians.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 46,876 Palestinians have been killed, and 110,642 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.

 

 Heroic medical staff stand tall alongside the police force outside the Maamadani Hospital. (Photo: via QNN)

Gaza Cease-Fire Takes Effect After Deadly Three-Hour Delay

January 19, 2025

Jessica Corbett

Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning during a three-hour delay in implementing a cease-fire and hostage-release deal that Israel's Cabinet finally approved the previous day.

  

Palestinians walk through the remnants of the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip as a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel begins on January 19, 2025. (Photo: Karam Hassan/Anadolu via Getty Images)