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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 Foreign Minister Demands Justice for Mazar-i-Sharif Diplomats
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Demands Justice for Mazar-i-Sharif Diplomats

Sunday 9 August 2026
General in Mazar-i-Sharif ALWAGHT- Iran’s Foreign Ministry vowed to bring to justice those responsible for the 1998 terrorist attack on the country’s Consulate General in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, which claimed the lives of eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist. The Iranian Foreig ...
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Iran’s Army on Full Alert Against Potential Ground Threats
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Iran’s Army on Full Alert Against Potential Ground Threats

Sunday 9 August 2026 ،
Brigadier General Ali Jahanshahi said Iran’s Army Ground Force has strengthened its capabilities in recent years through continuous and specialized training to confront a range of ground threats. During a visit to units in southeastern Iran, he warned that any hostile action would face a &ldq ...
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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios
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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
The Israeli political scenario awaits more than a simple election. It may be a structural change. Alwaght- These days nothing better than polls that have horrified the Likud party can display the fragility of the Israeli regime's political scene. What is happening in Netanyahu’s camp is no ...
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Pezeshkian Says Supreme Leader Is in Good Health
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Pezeshkian Says Supreme Leader Is in Good Health

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
Pointing to his recent meeting with the Supreme Leader and highlighting his good health, the President said the Leader is in complete health ALWAGHT- Pointing to his recent meeting with the Supreme Leader and highlighting his good health, the President said the Leader is in complete health, stressin ...
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Restructuring Iran’s Military Command: Show of Stability amid War
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Restructuring Iran’s Military Command: Show of Stability amid War

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
General Abdullahi and General Vahidi A central focus of foreign media has been the appointment of Major General Ali Abdollahi as chief of the Armed Forces General Staff and Major General Ahmad Vahidi as the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).  Al Jazeera, in a report he ...
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
General Mohsen Rezaei showed that from now on, foreign policy and defense and security policy of Tehran will grow more offensive, and it will pursue its national interests with even a stronger resolve. Alwaght: Iran's New conditions were met by Washington’s negative response. Is now Trump ...
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Khatam Headquarters Merged with Armed Forces General Staff in Major Iranian Military Reform
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Khatam Headquarters Merged with Armed Forces General Staff in Major Iranian Military Reform

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari was named his deputy. The integration is intended to bring strategic planning and battlefield command under a unified structure, reducing the chain of command and accelerating decision-making. The move reflects the demands of modern warfare, where rapid coordinati ...
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Countdown to US-Iran Deal Deadline: Returning to War or Continuing Diplomacy?
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Countdown to US-Iran Deal Deadline: Returning to War or Continuing Diplomacy?

Friday 14 August 2026 ،
Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, senior adviser to the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), drove the point home in an interview with PBS yesterday. How are they going to stop us from building missiles? he said. With 950 industrial parks and thousands of manufactu ...
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Trump Turkey Escape Scandal: New Life under Shadow of Vengeance
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Trump Turkey Escape Scandal: New Life under Shadow of Vengeance

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
General Qassem Soleimani, whom Trump ordered killed in Baghdad in January 2020. That cry only grew louder after US and Israeli aggression on Iran late last winter martyred Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei and several senior commanders, turning retribution into the very backbone of Iran&# ...
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Iran Maintains Control of Hormuz Amid US Claims
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Iran Maintains Control of Hormuz Amid US Claims

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
Brigadier General Abolfazl Zolfaghari and IRGC Navy commander Rear Admiral Ali Ozmaei both emphasized that no vessel can safely transit without Iranian oversight. Shipping data, however, presents a more complicated picture. Only a small number of vessels have crossed the strait in recent days compa ...

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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.