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Middle East / 23 August 2026
23 August 2026
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, August 19, 2026, in Washington
United States / 20 August 2026
20 August 2026
Mourners arrive to attend a ceremony marking 40 days since the burial of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla in Tehran, Iran, August 18, 2026
Middle East / 18 August 2026
18 August 2026
A man rides on his motorbike past a billboard with a message that reads in Farsi:
Middle East / 17 August 2026
17 August 2026
Sailors and Marines line the deck of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) as it deploys from San Diego, January 3, 2021
Middle East / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026
Vehicles drive past a statue of a swinging boy at a square in Tehran, Iran, August 10, 2026
Middle East / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026
Young men ride motorcycles along the shore as a tractor pulls equipment from the water and commercial vessels appear anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, July 27, 2026
Middle East / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
strait of hormuz
Middle East war / 9 August 2026
9 August 2026
A small motorboat passes anchored vessels in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, June 11, 2026
Middle East war / 7 August 2026
7 August 2026
A container ship sits at anchor as a small motorboat passes in the foreground in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 2, 2026
World / 5 August 2026
5 August 2026
Cargo ships, including bulk carriers and general cargo vessels, sit at anchor offshore as a small motorboat passes in the foreground, in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 4 , 2026
Middle East war / 4 August 2026
4 August 2026
the Strait of Hormuz
Middle East war / 3 August 2026
3 August 2026
A man sits on a surfboard as a container ship and other commercial vessels appear anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, July 27, 2026
Middle East / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
Iranian missiles in a temporary exhibition in front of the Azadi (Freedom) monument in Tehran, Iran, July 29, 2026
Middle East / 29 July 2026
29 July 2026
Motorcyclists ride past a billboard depicting US President Donald Trump with hands around his neck alongside the message ‘Revenge is inevitable’ in English and Farsi, in Tehran, Iran, July 27, 2026
Middle East / 27 July 2026
27 July 2026
Two men wade in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz with vessels anchored in the background, off Bandar Abbas, Iran, July 12, 2026
Middle East / 26 July 2026
26 July 2026
Black smoke rises following explosions near a military base hosting US forces in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, July 24, 2026
Middle East / 24 July 2026
24 July 2026
Iran
Book Review / 24 July 2026
24 July 2026

BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions

People stand on a bridge destroyed after a strike in Hormozgan province, southern Iran, July 18, 2026
Middle East / 22 July 2026
22 July 2026
Training begins for more than 100 US Army National Guard soldiers at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, March 2003
War / 22 July 2026
22 July 2026

Statement from the executive committee of the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights

A woman walks past a mural depicting a portrait of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, July 18, 2026
Middle East / 21 July 2026
21 July 2026
SERIOUS INTENT OR ACTING PRO FORMA? Iran's Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, first from left, meets Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, right, in Islamabad, Pakistan, yesterday Pic: Pakistan Prime Minister Office via AP
Middle East / 22 July 2026
22 July 2026

The war crimes of US imperialism in its third military aggression against Iran and the necessity of confronting the devastating policy of ‘War, war until victory’!

Shiite Muslims hold portraits of schoolchildren killed in a strike on a school in the southern Iranian town of Minab on Feb. 28 as they express solidarity with Iran in Magam, north of Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmir
Middle East war / 19 July 2026
19 July 2026
US President Donald Trump speaks after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 13, 2026
Editorial / 14 July 2026
14 July 2026