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• Videos show US missiles being launched from Kuwait into Iran

  Despite denials from Arab countries in the Persian Gulf region, there is growing evidence that their territory is being used in attacks on the Iranian regime…

  

• ‘How to shoot down an F-18’: Videos show Iran militia members training to use anti-aircraft missiles

  Iran’s military forces are preparing for a potential new round of US-Israeli attacks by deploying more man-portable air defence systems, or MANPADS, drawing on lessons from…

  

• “It will be our execution order”: US deportations leave asylum seekers in limbo

  An Iranian woman who was among 299 migrants deported by the United States to Panama has appealed to President Donald Trump for a reprieve so she…

  

• Online videos falsely claim that face masks can cause CO2 poisoning

  To wear a mask or not to, that is the question that has been fiercely debated online since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. One of…

  

• Were US warships filmed by an Iranian drone? Watch out for false military footage

  A video broadcast on Iranian television claims to show a drone flying over a United States aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. Some of the footage…

  

• YouTube shooter’s online posts: No, she was not a radical Muslim

  In the hours after Iranian-born Nasim Aghdam’s shooting attack on the YouTube headquarters, when she wounded three people and killed herself, figures from the pro-Trump alt-right…

  

• State Department Tweets, Then Deletes Congratulations to Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi After Oscars Win

  Hours after Asghar Farhadi criticized Donald Trump’s attempted Muslim travel ban as “inhumane” in his acceptance speech for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, the…

  

• Shock in Iran as professor refuses to trample US flag

  Every November 4, Iran’s hardliners celebrate the date of the hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979, which lasted 444 days. On this…

  

• ‘We fear bombs more than the Taliban,’ says Kunduz resident

  The Taliban attacked the northeast Afghan city of Kunduz on Monday, taking control of the city centre and army strongholds. According to one of our Observers…

  

• Why Iran keeps making anti-American propaganda videos

  More than a year after the nuclear deal between Iran and the 5+1 countries, Iran’s state television has aired a new music video full of anti-American…