There has been widespread condemnation after an image of an Israeli soldier hitting a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon went viral, the BBC reported on its website.
Israel’s prime minister claimed he was “stunned and…
Category: 2. World
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Tehran Times – British universities paid security firm to spy on pro-Palestine students
Twelve British universities paid a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to “spy” on student protesters and academics, including those who have expressed solidarity with Palestine, it can be revealed.
A joint investigation…
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Tehran Times – The rain fell, and the UAE’s house on sand is falling
TEHRAN — The United Arab Emirates had a defining choice to make, and it made the wrong one. For years, Abu Dhabi cast itself as the clever pragmatist of the Persian Gulf, a nimble trader that could glide above the region’s oldest fault…
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Elucidating the mechanisms of ‘counter-speech’ in Israel’s media strategy
TEHRAN – The credibility of any reasonable dialogue rests on two fundamental principles: a substantial and maximal commitment to alignment with reality and internal consistency.
In a rational exchange, both parties are bound by these two…
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Hezbollah strikes Zionist convoy in first post-truce operation
TEHRAN – Amid the ongoing Israeli violations of the Lebanon ceasefire, Hezbollah ambushes a military convoy, destroying four tanks.
Hezbollah’s military media has issued its first statement since the temporary truce in Lebanon took effect,…
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Tehran Times – Israel’s canine unit of sexual torture
TEHRAN — The thin veneer that has long served as the psychological bedrock of Israeli forces has finally dissolved into a landscape of visceral, animalistic sadism.
While the international community has grown accustomed to reports of beatings…
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Tehran Times – “Direct talks with Israel: An insult to Lebanon”
TEHRAN – Hezbollah has warned it will respond to any violation of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime of Israel.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naeem Qassem has emphasized that the battlefield proved to be the decisive factor, and the…
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Tehran Times – Courageous faith versus cowardly blasphemy
“I’m not afraid of the Trump administration or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel, which is what the Church works for.” His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, April 13, 2026, en route to Algiers
Opening
From the beginning of history…
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Lebanon Under Fire: Ceasefire as Cover, Law as Casualty
What is unfolding in Lebanon demands more than episodic outrage; it calls for a deeper political and legal reckoning that is attentive not only to the immediacy of violence but to the structural transformations it reveals. This is not merely a…
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Tehran Times – Cuba on the brink of Washington’s predatory play
TEHRAN — Cuba is living through a nightmare of its own making, if you ignore America’s fingerprints. Blackouts that stretch sixteen to twenty hours a day have become ordinary.
Hospitals postpone surgeries, food rots without refrigeration, and…
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