Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News disclosed on Wednesday that figures from European and U.S. defense firms have been heavily lobbying their counterparts in Turkey’s defense industry for help in blocking a controversial move by Ankara – announced last September, only to be met with immediate pushback by the West – to...

Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Mehdi Sanaei, on Wednesday announced on Facebook that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Russia next week to participate in a conference on Caspian energy and that the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, would follow in September for a similarly themed meeting with counterparts. The...

The office of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday rushed to deny reports – given to media outlets by a delegation of opposition Israeli lawmakers who had just returned from Ramallah – that the Palestinian leader had condemned a deadly Monday terrorist attack on an Israeli family, a...

As Tehran and P5+1 officials talk up the chances of a nuclear agreement, Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said his country’s missile-development program is not up for negotiations. Iranian defense minister, Hossein Dehghan, said that the country will never accept any intervention from the western side on the issue. The...

Western headlines over the weekend suggested Iran had ditched plans to dispatch warships to the Atlantic close to American territorial waters but they largely failed to mention the cancellation was only temporary. The Tehran Times righted that ‘wrong‘ on April 14, as part of the country’s ongoing propaganda war both...

A top United Nations human rights investigator on Monday demanded that Iran call off what is thought to be the impending execution of 26-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari, who had been convicted of killing Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, an employee of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, under circumstances that international watchdog groups insist constituted self-defense:...

An relatively unusual incident in Jordan – in which an angry protester on Monday hurled a pair of shoes at the country’s Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur – has refocused analyst attention on potentially widening rifts inside the monarchy, which as recently as last year was thought to be on the brink of following Egypt...

Gaza-based Palestinian groups on Tuesday celebrated the West Bank terror attack that the day before had killed one Israeli and injured two more, while other Palestinian organizations – including the internationally backed Fatah faction that controls the Palestinian Authority (PA) – generated controversy by pointedly declining to condemn the atrocity....

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday boasted that the international sanctions regime against Iran was unraveling, echoing a theme that he has been consistently emphasizing since the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – which provided Tehran with badly-needed financial relief – was signed in November: “With your support, this government has taken the first steps...

Iran’s propaganda machine suggested April 13 that the leading figure in the Syrian opposition demanded “a coalition with Israel,” even being prepared to accept Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Tehran frequently uses its manifold media outlets to diss its opponents by hinting at or saying outright they enjoy relations...