Some recent commentaries regarding the state of the Strait of Hormuz, while articulating a genuine global anxiety over energy security, rests upon a foundational misreading. It is not the strait that has been weaponized; it is the entire edifice of…
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Tehran Times – The answer to the US naval blockade lies in closing the Bab al-Mandab Strait
Kayhan discussed the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the importance of closing it in an article. The paper wrote: The unveiling of the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the end of the two-week deadline opens a new front against Trump and his supporters, who will…
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Tehran Times – US military actions: An unchecked exercise of power
TEHRAN — They say the future is not singular, but plural. This is the first lesson we were forced to learn in the days of war: a future that is the byproduct of the actors’ deeds; an assemblage of probabilities resulting from the superposition…
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Tehran Times – The Lidless Eye of Sauron watches us all. Are we helpless?
TEHRAN — The name “Palantir” confesses its intent so plainly that it reads less like branding and more like a manual: a candid revelation of the method by which a world is watched.
Taken from the legendarium of Tolkien, the palantíri were…
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Tehran Times – Beyond brinksmanship: The Orientalism in Trump’s Iran war cry
NEW DELHI – In a striking display of aggressive posturing amid the war on Iran, United States President Donald Trump’s apocalyptic warning of total annihilation in a prime-time television address from the White House has since been…
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Tehran Times – Hezbollah responds to the Zionist military amid fragile truce
TEHRAN – Amid ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire with Lebanon, Hezbollah has once again responded by attacking the occupying regime’s military.
In a statement, the Lebanese resistance movement announced that it had targeted a military…
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Tehran Times – Over 1000 artists call for boycott for ‘normalizing’ Israel’s genocide
More than 1,100 musicians and cultural workers have called for a boycott of the 70th edition of the Eurovision song competition over its inclusion of Israel, amid growing pressure to ban the country over its genocide in Gaza, Middle East Eye…
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Tehran Times – Kyrie Irving changes Instagram photo to show solidarity with Palestine
Famed basketball player Kyrie Irving has changed his social media profile picture to an image of a Palestinian child blocked from attending school by Israeli soldiers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.
The picture on…
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Suicide deaths in U.S. teens and young adults fell after 988 launch
The 988 Lifeline appears to be making a difference for teens and young adults in crisis.
Since 988 replaced the ten digit lifeline in the United States, the suicide mortality of those aged 15 to 34 was 11 percent lower than…
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How climate change may increase antibiotic resistance
Climate change could increase hard-to-treat bacterial infections, two studies suggest.
Heat boosted antibiotic resistance among bacteria found in artificially warmed grassland soils, researchers report April 22 in Nature. And as…
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