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Iran's Hardliners Called the Doha Deal a Coup. The Speaker Who Helped Sign It Is Trying to Prove Them Wrong.

TEHRAN, July 3 -- Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf holds one of the three most powerful positions in the Islamic Republic. He is speaker of parliament, a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, an... Read More


Gaza Genocide at 1,000 Days: 73,000 Dead, a Ceasefire That Didn't Hold

KHAN YOUNIS, July 3 -- Salim Khader Al-Ashqar did not die on a pitch. He died on a motorcycle, somewhere in the al-Qarara area northeast of Khan Younis, on July 1, looking for a cylinder of cooking ga... Read More


Evin Prison's Clinic Was Bombed in 2025. Its Doors Were Welded Shut in 2026. Now It Has a Tuberculosis Outbreak.

TEHRAN, July 3 -- Mohammad Mehdipour had been coughing for three months before a doctor at Evin Prison told him the diagnosis: tuberculosis. He is a political prisoner. He was not told how many other ... Read More


Bomb Kills Nine at Damascus Cafe Steps From Syria's Palace of Justice

New Delhi, July 3 -- 24 p.m. The cafe sits approximately 40 meters from the main entrance to the Palace of Justice, where high-profile trials of former officials from Bashar al-Assad's government hav... Read More


Iran Calls It War Reparations. The Trump Administration Calls It an Investment Fund.

New Delhi, July 3 -- Fatemeh Mohajerani, the Iranian government spokeswoman, told Russia's RIA Novosti in mid-April what everyone at the negotiating table already knew but no one had put on record: th... Read More


Iran Is Expecting 20 Million at Khamenei's Funeral. It Is Not Leaving That to Chance.

New Delhi, July 3 -- members "are not allowed to open our office during the funeral days and must attend the ceremonies." It did not invite attendance. It prohibited the alternative. Iran is expectin... Read More


Iran Buries Khamenei as 20 Million Mourn and World Signals Who Stands With Tehran

New Delhi, July 3 -- TEHRAN - The smallest coffin arrived last. Wrapped in green cloth alongside the flag-draped caskets of Iran's assassinated supreme leader and three other family members killed in ... Read More


Iran Recast Its Hormuz Toll as a Service Fee. The MOU Let Them.

New Delhi, July 3 -- the 60-day diplomatic window, the nuclear inspection freeze, the Iranian parliament's formal ratification. One word, though, turned out to matter enormously. That word was "toll."... Read More


Two Ships Hit, Five Days of Strikes: How the US-Iran Ceasefire Nearly Collapsed Before Doha

New Delhi, July 3 -- DUBAI - On June 25, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship called the M/V Ever Lovely was leaving the Strait of Hormuz along the Omani coast when an Iranian one-way attack drone hit it. T... Read More


Over 1,000 Palestinians Killed Since Gaza Ceasefire Began, Hamas Says, as Israel's Violations Pass 3,500

Basem Naim, July 3 -- GAZA - A child photographed this week amid the rubble near the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza City stands as a kind of measure of the October ceasefire. The truce that was s... Read More