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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Iran’s Military Reports Shooting Down an Additional Israeli F-35 Fighter Jet
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Iran’s Military Reports Shooting Down an Additional Israeli F-35 Fighter Jet

Saturday 14 June 2025
2016. The ongoing conflict between Tehran and Tel Aviv has seen these advanced aircraft deployed in aggressive strikes against Iranian targets, escalating tensions and military confrontations in the region.
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US to Spend $1.5B on Air Bases, Ammo Depots in Israel
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US to Spend $1.5B on Air Bases, Ammo Depots in Israel

Wednesday 9 July 2025 ،
2016, with projects also supporting Israel’s new CH-53K helicopters and KC-46 refueling aircraft. Though tenders go to American firms, much of the construction is carried out by Israeli contractors. Despite Washington's claim that this aid serves mutual defense, the scale of investment su ...
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Why’s Iran No Longer Accepting Afghan Immigrants?
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Why’s Iran No Longer Accepting Afghan Immigrants?

Wednesday 16 July 2025 ،
2016 Population and Housing Census report published by the Statistical Center of Iran, at that time only 1,583,979 people, or 1.98 percent of the total population of Iran, were Afghan nationals, and currently the lowest estimate of the presence of Afghan immigrants is 5 million. Nader Yarahmadi, Ad ...
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Trump and the Desire for Attacking the Media
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Trump and the Desire for Attacking the Media

Saturday 19 July 2025 ،
2016 election campaign and during interviews that if he were to return to the White House, he would take revenge on the news media that angered him. A president against the freedom of press CNN in a report citing the freedom of press advocates said that Trump is intentionally inflaming an atmosph ...
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Tehran-Beijing Rail Connection: How’s Iran Become China’s Big Partner?
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Tehran-Beijing Rail Connection: How’s Iran Become China’s Big Partner?

Tuesday 22 July 2025 ،
2016, President Xi Jinping of China made an official visit to Iran, signing agreements that paved the diplomatic way for upgrading bilateral relations by 2021. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in 2019 invited Iranian defense minister for discussions on bolstering defense ties and naval facil ...
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New PMF Law: Redefining Power in Iraq’s Security Structure
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New PMF Law: Redefining Power in Iraq’s Security Structure

Saturday 26 July 2025 ،
2016 and now it is undergoing fundamental reforms to establish an independent structure and identity. The parliament completed a report and debate on Wednesday about the draft law on the PMF, according to a short statement published by the press office of the parliament. It voted to add several poi ...
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Iraq’s PMF, the Ensurer of Arbaeen Congregation Security
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Iraq’s PMF, the Ensurer of Arbaeen Congregation Security

Saturday 2 August 2025 ،
2016, the Iraqi parliament passed a law integrating the PMF into the official armed forces and placed it under the command of the prime minister as the commander-in-chief. The PMF’s numbers have doubled since its formation during the war against ISIS in 2014, when it was 100,000 strong, to mo ...
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Iran Report Reveals NATO’s Intelligence Role in 12-day War
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Iran Report Reveals NATO’s Intelligence Role in 12-day War

Tuesday 5 August 2025 ،
2016, Israel gained the highest level of operational access to the NATO without official membership after Turkey lost its veto right. Although maintaining the security and interests of the regime in the region, including its military superiority, has always been the core of strategies of Tel Aviv&r ...
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Anti-Semitism Redefinition: An Instrument to Crack Down on Zionism Critics
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Anti-Semitism Redefinition: An Instrument to Crack Down on Zionism Critics

Saturday 9 August 2025 ،
2016, which stated: “Anti-Semitism is a specific perception of Jews that may be expressed as hatred of Jews. Anti-Semitism is verbal and physical manifestations directed at Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, Jewish community institutions, and religious establishments.&rdqu ...
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Alaska Meeting: Putin’s Diplomatic Win over the West
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Alaska Meeting: Putin’s Diplomatic Win over the West

Saturday 16 August 2025 ،
2016 to 2020, the two presidents met six times on various occasions to discuss bilateral relations, arms control, the Iranian nuclear deal of 2015, and the crises in Syria and Ukraine. They met again in Alaska after six years. The meeting between the presidents of Russia and the US is of particular ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.