The New Arab Staff

Mahmoud Aslan

Mahmoud Aslan

Mahmoud Aslan is an Iranian journalist based in Tehran. 

For the vast majority of Iran's Afghan population, estimated at over 3.8 million as of early 2025, leaving is not a realistic option.

06 March, 2026

What distinguished this day from those before it was not simply the scale but the depth of these attacks reaching further into Iran's urban geography.

06 March, 2026

As US-Israeli airstrikes hit Iran, rising transport costs trap poorer families, while wealthier Iranians escape, exposing a stark divide in survival amid war

05 March, 2026

As US‑Israeli strikes escalate, Tehran residents have opened up their homes and shared resources, forming informal networks of solidarity to protect each other

05 March, 2026

The US-Israel war began over Tehran on Saturday and spread, city by city, into a sustained assault on civilian infrastructure, military sites, and daily life.

05 March, 2026

Residents described children who had been on their way to school falling to the ground in fear, sheltering behind cars and lampposts.

04 March, 2026

The war did not stay within Tehran's boundaries. Strikes extended to Isfahan, Kermanshah, Karaj, and areas in the south near the port city of Bandar Abbas.

03 March, 2026

Iran's regime was built to outlast any single leader, but Khamenei's killing will trigger factional competition that could redefine the country's future

02 March, 2026

Through all of it, no one in Tehran had a clear picture of where the US-Israeli strikes were heading or when they would stop.

01 March, 2026