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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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Can Turkey’s Return to F-35 Program Fill Its Deterrence Void?
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Can Turkey’s Return to F-35 Program Fill Its Deterrence Void?

Monday 8 December 2025
offers from Washington to replace the deal with American Patriots, Ankara took delivery of the S-400 batteries in the fall of 2019. The deployment of the Russian interceptors triggered a major crisis within NATO. The US responded by expelling Turkey from the F-35 development consortium and imposing ...
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US Tanker Seizure Brings War Clouds Lower on the Caribbean
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US Tanker Seizure Brings War Clouds Lower on the Caribbean

Saturday 13 December 2025 ،
off Venezuela coast. We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large, largest one ever, actually, and other things are happening, he said. Trump implicitly said that the US could confiscate the ship. The spokesperson to the White House also announced the seizure ...
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What’s Pezeshkian’s Central Asia Visit Yielded?
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What’s Pezeshkian’s Central Asia Visit Yielded?

Saturday 13 December 2025 ،
officials suggests that the two-day mission of the president was successful. Meanwhile, Pezeshkian, outlining the outcomes of his visits to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, said the meetings and consultations held during the trips had produced positive results in advancing the Islamic Republic’s ...
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Troubled Louvre Museum Faces Some Grave Scenarios
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Troubled Louvre Museum Faces Some Grave Scenarios

Monday 15 December 2025 ،
offices have been shut down, and museum management announced this week that access to second-floor offices will be blocked due to infrastructural issues and building decay. It Is further anticipated that additional sections of the Louvre will gradually close, with these shutdowns attributed to the ...
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Tehran Meeting Further Step to Address Afghanistan Challenges
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Tehran Meeting Further Step to Address Afghanistan Challenges

Monday 15 December 2025 ،
officials from Afghanistan, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Tehran is actively involved in most regional and international initiatives concerning Afghanistan. Due to its shared border, Iran has frequently hosted such meetings and continues t ...
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Armenia Growing Hasty about TRIPP Corridor
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Armenia Growing Hasty about TRIPP Corridor

Tuesday 16 December 2025 ،
official declaration by the OSCE on December 2, announcing the end of the Minsk Group and its affiliated structures. Now, rumors are growing louder that Yerevan is softening its previously rigid stance of rejecting the first precondition, and the necessary steps to amend the constitution are underwa ...
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Israelis Bearing the Brunt of Netanyahu’s Warmongering
Analysis

Israelis Bearing the Brunt of Netanyahu’s Warmongering

Thursday 25 December 2025 ،
offices abroad. Furthermore, foreign investors offloaded approximately 2 billion shekels ($589 million) worth of shares on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange from June through July 2025. This represents a roughly 20 percent drop in net foreign investment in the market and marks one of the first significan ...
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Media Crackdown and Censorship, Netanyahu’s Remedy for Security Crisis
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Media Crackdown and Censorship, Netanyahu’s Remedy for Security Crisis

Thursday 1 January 2026 ،
off ties to Haaretz, a newspaper critical of Netanyahu and leaning to opposition. This decision also extend to all ministries, government institutions, and companies that use government budget. The cabinet said in a statement that it “will not accept a situation in which the publisher of an o ...
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How Have West and Israel Supported Riots in Iran?
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How Have West and Israel Supported Riots in Iran?

Tuesday 13 January 2026 ،
Cutting the throat to firing at civilians and security forces: Iran’s forensic services chief Abbas Masjedi reported that during the recent unrest, just unlike their precedents, trained terrorists mostly “attacked vital organs” of the people. Masjedi added that a considerable numbe ...
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With ISIS Inmates Breaking Free, Security Threats Are Back to Iraq
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With ISIS Inmates Breaking Free, Security Threats Are Back to Iraq

Thursday 22 January 2026 ،
officials remained skeptical of these verbal guarantees. For the past 13 months, security forces have been deployed along the Syrian border, closely monitoring any movements of armed groups and the potential for terrorist infiltrations into Iraq. Now, with a significant number of ISIS members having ...

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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.