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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 Urges Closer, Substantive Relations with Iraq Amid Global Shifts
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Iran Urges Closer, Substantive Relations with Iraq Amid Global Shifts

Saturday 6 September 2025
Council, has urged the expansion of concrete bilateral ties and broad cooperation with neighboring Iraq ALWAGHT- Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has urged the expansion of concrete bilateral ties and broad cooperation with neighboring Iraq amid evolving glo ...
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Velayati Calls for Immediate Action to Halt Israeli Atrocities
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Velayati Calls for Immediate Action to Halt Israeli Atrocities

Tuesday 9 September 2025 ،
Council of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening in Tehran, Ali Akbar Velayati delivered a statement titled “Palestine, the Axis of Islamic Unity.” He condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza as a deliberate and systematic “war against humanity,” pointing to the blockade of ...
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UN Backs Palestinian State—French-Saudi Plan in Focus
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UN Backs Palestinian State—French-Saudi Plan in Focus

Sunday 14 September 2025 ،
Cooperation Council welcomed the move, hailing it as an important step toward ending occupation, securing Palestinian rights, and advancing the two-state solution.
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Indian-Israeli Alliance: From Military Partnership to Ideological Convergence
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Indian-Israeli Alliance: From Military Partnership to Ideological Convergence

Sunday 14 September 2025 ،
Council resolution that labeled Zionism as racism.  But the end of the Cold War and the geopolitical changes of the 1990s turned the tide. In 1999 and during Kargill War with Pakistan, Israel provided to India drone systems and laser-guided bombs pivotally enabling New Delhi actions against Is ...
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Can ’Peninsula Force’ Shield Persian Gulf Arab Monarchies against Israel?
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Can ’Peninsula Force’ Shield Persian Gulf Arab Monarchies against Israel?

Monday 15 September 2025 ،
Cooperation Council, established in 1984. Its primary objectives were to provide collective defense for the Council's members against external threats and to ensure internal security in the event of unrest. The force's command headquarters is located in Saudi Arabia, and its troops are compo ...
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Larijani Says Tehran, Riyadh Move to Expand Economic and Military Cooperation
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Larijani Says Tehran, Riyadh Move to Expand Economic and Military Cooperation

Wednesday 17 September 2025 ،
Council Secretary Ali Larijani said his discussions with the Saudi crown prince in Riyadh centered on enhancing economic, regional, and defense cooperation, with future collaboration expected to become more structured and organized. During his landmark visit to Riyadh, Iran’s Supreme National ...
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Larijani’s Riyadh Visit: Laying the Groundwork for New Regional Security Order
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Larijani’s Riyadh Visit: Laying the Groundwork for New Regional Security Order

Friday 19 September 2025 ،
Council, this time visited Saudi Arabia as the new destination of his regional visits. The trip to the Arab kingdom is important not just in terms of bilateral relations, but also the broader geopolitical basis of the West Asia region and can remarkably influence the future regional developments by ...
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How Does Iran Sanctions Reinstatement Look Like?
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How Does Iran Sanctions Reinstatement Look Like?

Saturday 20 September 2025 ،
Council declined to pass a draft resolution calling for permanent suspension of the sanctions on Iran, though Tehran and the three European powers still have eight days to work out a deal to postpone the sanctions. Four countries voted for the suspension while nine other voters against it, a proces ...
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Iran Threatens to End IAEA Agreement If UN Sanctions Return
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Iran Threatens to End IAEA Agreement If UN Sanctions Return

Saturday 20 September 2025 ،
Council resolutions against Iran, despite what he described as Tehran’s maximum cooperation with both the European Troika and the IAEA. He noted that a draft resolution seeking to permanently lift sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program was voted down, but warned that UN sanctions could be r ...
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Saudi Arabia under Pakistani Nuclear Umbrella Amid Transforming Security Equations
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Saudi Arabia under Pakistani Nuclear Umbrella Amid Transforming Security Equations

Sunday 21 September 2025 ،
Cooperation Council. Their defense ministers agreed that in the next months, the will launch joint war drills seeing them testing their air defense and conducting air operations. The primary objective of these measures is to achieve greater coordination in military area and to work out a unified st ...

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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.