Category: 1. Iran

Tehran Province’s education chief Yousef Baharloo said tensions at the school erupted on Wednesday after staff confiscated several students’ phones, adding that he had received no reports of physical injury to the students.

But eyewitnesses…

Each year on this day, the Sultanate of Oman pauses before a sweeping historical canvas, commemorating the founding of the Al Bu Said state 281 years ago — the state that laid the foundations of a stable, prosperous, and regionally influential…

TEHRAN – The recent 12-day U.S.-Israel assault on Iran has reignited debates about whether the global legal system retains any real authority or has collapsed under the weight of great-power politics. For Thomas G. Weiss, a leading thinker on…

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Wrestling is considered Iran’s national sport, with deep cultural and historical roots. Iran consistently ranks among the world’s wrestling powers, rivaling Russia and the U.S.

Success at the 2025…

The university closed the exhibition at its Fine Arts Faculty despite thousands queuing to visit each night following a sharply worded protest from the faculty’s Student Basij militia, which accused the event of turning the campus “into a…

Why it matters:

The escalation in southern Lebanon highlights the growing volatility in West Asia, with rising civilian casualties and an increasing pattern of cross-border violence. The attacks have intensified fears of a…