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22.12.2025

The Day of the Non-Negotiable Missile Drills

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This page is an archive of main headlines from Iran for 22.12.2025.

It displays 11 headlines from many sources chronologically, as they appeared throughout the day, accompanied by AI overviews that were written in real time.

22.12.2025The Day of the Non-Negotiable Missile Drills
On December 22, Iranian editors shifted from the previous day's focus on preemptive strike threats to a narrative of defiant deterrence. Morning headlines were dominated by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Baghaei’s declaration that the missile program is strictly defensive and "non-negotiable," directly responding to Western and Israeli pressure. This coincided with conflicting reports of a new IRGC missile exercise; while diaspora outlets and initial state reports highlighted the drills, official state media later pivoted to downplay white vapor trails over the plateau as civilian aircraft.
By afternoon, editorial priorities diverged. State-aligned sources focused on President Pezeshkian’s engagement with the Eurasian Economic Union and Zarif’s proposal for a nuclear deal contingent on U.S. restraint. Simultaneously, conservative editors at Kayhan and Tasnim intensified their domestic campaign, using the currency crisis and bank restructuring to attack the reformist faction and the administration’s economic management as military tensions with Israel remained at a peak.
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معاون فرهنگی وزارت فرهنگ و ارشاد اسلامی اقتصاد نشر را چالش اساسی این معاونت می‌خواند. او همچنین قیمت کاغذ را نگران‌کننده توصیف می‌کند و از اصلاح ممیزی سخن می‌گوید.
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01:27 (21:57)The Shadow of the Missile Strike

Iranian and international Persian outlets are prioritizing escalating threats of Israeli strikes, now reinforced by U.S. congressional warnings regarding Iranian enrichment and missile capabilities (BBC Persian, Iran International). Domestic conservative media have intensified their criticism of reformist factions, framing internal political maneuvers as a 'hijacking' of the Pezeshkian administration during this period of heightened external vulnerability (Tasnim News, Kayhan).