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Report: What’s Lavrov’s Mission in Tehran?
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is set to visit Tehran to meet with his Iranian counterpart Sayyed Abbas Araghchi on Monday. The visit is coming amid ongoing regional tensions and the US pressure on the two allies and is meant to strengthen strategic cooperation between Iran and Russia.
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Report / Minab School Tragedy: Iranian Director Becomes Iran’s Voice from Busan Film Festival
Some voices cannot be silenced by bombardment; voice of a mother who lost her child, voice of kids who do not come back from school, and the voice of an Iranian artist who has stood by his country in the hard days.
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Report; Bessent’s Prediction Gone Wrong: Economic Resilience in Iran, Collapse Delusion in US
Two weeks ago, the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed that Iran would have nothing left to bargain with in another two weeks and was shipping its last oil cargoes to China, its main oil buyer. He made that prediction on September 27, now, on October 13, the stated deadline has come and gone, but the predicted demise of Iran's economic capacity and the collapse of its economy have not materialized.
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Report: Yemen’s Missile Lock on Saudi Airports Deals Blows to Kingdom’s Aviation Industry
Yemen war is changing fast and witnessing a dramatic turn, so much so that not only the geography of internal balance of power has transformed, but also the type of tension equation between Sana'a and Riyadh is nothing like the past. For example, in a major development, while the Saudis by their insisting on maintaining the air embargo on Yemen and attacks on Sana'a airport have terminated the ceasefire and resumed war, things have gone so wrong to the Arab kingdom in a matter of a few weeks that Ansarallah resistance movement is seeking to impose an air blockade on Saudi Arabia.
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Report: How Have Drones Transformed Yemen War?
Recent military clashes in Yemen have been indicative of growing number and diversity of drone operations launched by Yemeni force, as well as the Saudi-backed mercenaries, so much so that drones have become one of the most determining tools in the war, something not imagined until recently.
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Report: Where have American Forces and Military Equipment Gone after Iraq Withdrawal?
The US military pull-out of Iraq on September 30 marked an end to a 23-year-long occupation period. A major part of the American forces had been withdrawn over the past few years and in the closing day of their presence, the remaining equipment and hundreds of troops stationed in the military bases left this country.
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Report: Lebanon Govt. Frustrated with US as Talks with Israel Run into Deadlock
After months, the Israeli-Lebanese talks are still in a deadlock, one that even Lebanese leaders, who started their government with zeal to negotiate, stress. The framework that was supposed to see the Israeli occupation forces moving out of the country after implementing the bilateral commitments has practically been on hold for months over dispute on acting on the obligations and continued Israeli aggression.
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Report; Second Sayyed Nasrallah Martyrdom Anniversary: Display of Loyalty to Resistance Legacy
While the Israeli regime thought that with assassination of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah it will suppress the resistance discourse in Lebanon, the passionate presence of the people on the second anniversary of martyrdom of Nasrallah showed that elimination of the leaders not only has not terminated a political and social current, but also the resistance as a deep-rooted and influential current continues to live on in Lebanon.
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Report; Netanyahu’s Speech: A Slap at the UN, a Pain at Home
The UN General Assembly has always offered a stage for strengthening diplomacy and international cooperation, and, above all, for leaders to lay out their views on the world's most pressing issues and challenges. Yet even the noisy presence of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister and convicted war criminal wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide and crimes against humanity, did nothing to ease his regime's global isolation at the UN gathering.
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International Mawkibs Serve Pilgrims in Qom on Martyrdom Anniversary of Lady Masuma (s.a.)
International mawkibs were set up across Astane Square, a few metres from the shrine of Lady Masuma s.a. in Qom to serve pilgrims marking her martyrdom anniversary, with volunteers from Iraq, Abadan, Baghdad, and beyond offering free food, water, and services.
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Report: Iran War Bill for the US:$33.4 Billion Just Until Ceasefire
The recent official admission of the US Department of War to the strategic depletion of the munition stockpiles is ond of the key indications of the heavy price of the Iran war for the American military. The war, the US dubs Operation Epic Fury, has not only costed the US billions of dollars, but also has depleted the munitions and put strains on the supply chain of the country's defense industries.
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Scholar Warns of Neo-Orientalist Project Distorting Muslim Women as Gender Concepts Infiltrate International Institutions
A prominent Iraqi scholar has warned that Western academic institutions and international bodies are waging a new form of Orientalism aimed at erasing the identity of Muslim women, replacing moral concepts of man and woman with fluid gender constructs, and pressuring Islamic states to legalize homosexuality, calling on Muslim women to enter the academic arena and confront what she termed Western pseudo-science.
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Women of Resistance Called Architects of Culture and Identity at Ahlul Bayt Assembly Gathering in Qom
The Women and Family Department of the World Assembly of Ahlul Bayt (AS) convened a gathering in Qom titled Women of Resistance: Architects of Culture and Identity, bringing together women from across the region to discuss the role of Muslim women in preserving Islamic civilization, building communication networks among resistance communities, and countering Western efforts to dismantle the Muslim family.
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200 Historic Nights: Iranians Flood Streets for 200th Consecutive Night Since Martyrdom of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei
For 200 consecutive nights since the martyrdom of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in February 2026, Iranians have taken to the streets after dark in what co-hosts Zainab and Ali call an unprecedented global phenomenon, carrying the Iranian flag and the red flag of یا لثارات الحسین, with interviewees telling ABNA they come not because they are jobless but because they have a score to settle with America and Israel and will never surrender a single handspan of their homeland.
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Report / Lamerd Attack: An Atrocity that Adds to US Crimes Case
Over the past seven months, massive American and Israeli strikes across Iran have laid bare a raw portrait of violence and atrocity, killing and wounding a large number of civilians. Yet from the very first hours of the 40-day war, some cities tasted the bitter cost of the enemy's crimes; cities that still bear the scars months after the attacks ended, every corner of them telling a story of the aggressors' brutality.
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Report / Amending Iraq’s PMF Law: Change of Structure or Nature?
While the political rift about the future of the Iraqi resistance groups and the way of their organization is growing, the draft law of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) has once again become one the most controversial legislation cases and the political parties in the parliament are set to discuss it in parliamentary meetings.
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Report: UAE-Algeria Rift Is Beyond a Diplomatic Gap
Interventionist policies of the UAE in West Asia and North Africa have brought the relations of Abu Dhabi with a number of regional countries to a critical point, with some choosing to review their ties with this Persian Gulf tiny monarchy as it insists on clinging on this approach.
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Report / US Subsurface Eye in Iran’s Hands: Washington Surprised Deep in Hormuz
The Islamic Republic seems to have scored high in military and intelligence terms by this hunt, despite Washington's claims that the submarine system is old and malfunctioning. The War Zone website reported that seizing the system relatively intact gives Tehran a "considerable" privilege.
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Report / Iran at Eurasia’s Heart: How’s SCO Helping Tehran Cushion American Sanctions?
President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran's visit to Bishkek this week was made as US economic pressure on Tehran enters a new phase. Washington has announced plans to impose fresh secondary sanctions on financial networks tied to Iran, and is even targeting banks and financial institutions that do business with the Islamic Republic. In this climate, Iran’s membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has taken on renewed urgency.
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Report / Radical Settlers: Netanyahu’s Yesterday Allies, Today’s Headache
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now in one of the most complex political contradictions of his premiership. The extremist settler movement and hardline right-wing parties that have become one of Netanyahu’s most crucial political lifelines over the past several years are now, amid escalating violence in the West Bank, emerging as one of the most serious sources of domestic and international pressure on him.
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Imam Musa Al-Sader: A Man Whose Absence Still Resonates
Every year, as the anniversary of Imam Sayyed Musa Al-Sader’s disappearance comes around, the case is no longer merely an old judicial file, nor simply the story of a religious and political figure who vanished under mysterious circumstances. It becomes once again the case of an entire nation that has been asking for forty-eight years: Where is Musa al-Sader? What happened to him and his two companions, Sheikh Mohammad Yaacoub and journalist Abbas Badr al-Din?
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Report / UN to Choose New Chief: Why’s Tel Aviv Worried?
With António Guterres’s second term winding down, the race to succeed him as US secretary-general is entering a critical phase, a contest that could reshape how the world body tackles major international files in the years ahead, from the Gaza war and the Palestine question to occupation and Israel’s conduct.
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Report: Big Blow to Heart of US Spying System in West Asia
The 40-day war the US-Israeli alliance waged against Iran did not just upend the military and geopolitical calculus of West Asia. It exposed the sheer depth and precision of the Islamic Republic's combined missile-and-drone barrages, and in doing so, lifted the veil on what may be the most devastating intelligence-security debacle Washington has failure in eight decades.
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Report / Six Months of Iran War: Costs for US
Six months after start of the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, figures published by Al Jazeera give a picture of failure to Trump's military campaign for what he expected to be a rapid victory. Actually the war not only did not lead to collapse of the Islamic Republic, but also it has become one of attrition and the economic and military costs are overshadowing the economy of the US and its allies.
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Report / Twilight of US Hegemony: Decline Felt at Home
The war of aggression against Iran has turned US's continued military footprint in the region into a strategic challenge. Over six months of combat, major US bases became easy targets for Tehran’s powerful missiles, according to reports. The Pentagon is now being forced to pull back troops, draw down to its lowest troop levels since 2003, and shell out $5 billion in reconstruction costs.
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Report / Three Missing Iranian Pilots: Is US Involved?
Several months after the Iranian air force’s successful strike at American targets in Qatar at the outset of the 40-day war, the fate of the pilots from two fighter jets hit on their return route has entered a new phase.
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Report / 60-day Ceasefire Ends: What Do Western and World Media Say about Trump’s Dilemma?
The 60-day US-Iran memorandum of understanding that was supposed to be a pathway to ending the war and resolving outstanding disputes expired Monday without a tangible breakthrough, casting the prospects for a truce deeper into uncertainty.
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Report / Iran’s Ghalibaf in Baghdad: Common Cases on Table
The visit to Iraq of the Iranian parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf comes at a time the Iranian-Iraqi relations are under influence of an array of sensitive security, economic, and regional cases. Though his official schedule included meetings with senior Iraqi officials, discussing mutual cooperation...
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15th International 100-Second Film Festival Holds Successful Workshops Across Iran, Pakistan, and Kashmir
The 15th International 100-Second Film Festival successfully conducted workshops across three countries—Pakistan, Indian-administered Kashmir, and Iran—coordinated by ABNA correspondent Zainab Askari, drawing hundreds of media professionals and filmmakers. The Qom workshop alone brought together over 35 participants from more than seven countries for intensive training in scriptwriting, documentary production, and AI filmmaking, as part of the festival's pre-event program leading up to the August 26 submission deadline. This year's international section carries the theme "Children affected by war around the world," with a special category for Minab school children offering a 3000 Euro prize.
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ABNA Reporters Ali and Zainab File from Najaf to Karbala Path at Night amid War as Pilgrims Carry Red Flags of Resistance
At nearly midnight with temperatures still at 39 degrees Celsius, ABNA correspondents Ali and Zainab report from the Najaf to Karbala pilgrimage route, where amidst ongoing bombings, the procession has transformed into a relentless river of humanity and resistance, with pilgrims from around the world carrying red flags