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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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Environmental Terrorism: The Hidden Aspect of American-Israeli War on Iran
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Environmental Terrorism: The Hidden Aspect of American-Israeli War on Iran

Wednesday 8 April 2026
members of the Security Council. He outlined Iran’s position on the US and Israeli military strikes on nuclear facilities and related sites, warning of severe humanitarian and environmental repercussions from the illegal attacks in Iran.  Separately, Arman Khorsand, head of the Departmen ...
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Why’s not NATO Standing by US in Iran War?
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Why’s not NATO Standing by US in Iran War?

Wednesday 15 April 2026 ،
member responded affirmatively to calls by the Americans to help. Britain, France, Germany, and Spain all kept away from Trump's adventures in Iran. Many right-wing American media outlets described this NATO response a betrayal of the US, with Trump vowing to punish them. But how much is this na ...
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European Union Faces Internal Challenges: Calls for Strength and Unity Amidst Division
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European Union Faces Internal Challenges: Calls for Strength and Unity Amidst Division

Saturday 25 April 2026 ،
member states, internal disagreements over foreign policy, and public protests in response to economic and migration policies. This has resulted in a more passive approach to global developments and a diminished influence in the international system. One of the EU's most significant challenges ...
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Humiliated Superpower: How US Levers Are Going Dull in Push to Reopen Strait of Hormuz
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Humiliated Superpower: How US Levers Are Going Dull in Push to Reopen Strait of Hormuz

Thursday 30 April 2026 ،
members, burned by the costly and bloody lessons of the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, refused to walk straight back into another trap set by Washington. So much so that Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez bluntly stated that his country had been deceived by the U.S. over the Iraq War&md ...
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Collapse of a Dream? Emirates Union May Be Teetering on the Edge
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Collapse of a Dream? Emirates Union May Be Teetering on the Edge

Tuesday 5 May 2026 ،
members. The lack of interest of other six emirates in the federal union which is largely under control of Abu Dhabi has resurfaced these days amid a crisis that the adventure of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed has brought to the UAE through alignment with the Israeli regime and the US in their war of agg ...
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Is Oman Facing a Repeat of the 2017 Qatar Crisis?
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Is Oman Facing a Repeat of the 2017 Qatar Crisis?

Monday 1 June 2026 ،
members. It was a coordinated bid to reshape the balance of power in the Persian Gulf and rein in a country that refused to dance to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi’s tune. But the pressure campaign did not pan out the way its architects had hoped. Iran stepped in, opening up its airspace, ports, and tr ...
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Yielding to Ceasefire: Why’s Trump Agreed to Iran War End?
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Yielding to Ceasefire: Why’s Trump Agreed to Iran War End?

Tuesday 16 June 2026 ،
member of the Atlantic Council commented on the chasm between the allies, saying that this is a stark moment of diverging interests between the US and Israel. Reuters also cited a senior Israeli official describing the agreement as disasterous to Tel Aviv. According to the report, cases that at th ...
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Security Belts from Lebanon to Syria: Objectives and Consequences of New Israeli Strategy
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Security Belts from Lebanon to Syria: Objectives and Consequences of New Israeli Strategy

Thursday 25 June 2026 ،
members fled to the Israeli regime, and a structure painstakingly built over nearly two decades to maintain the security belt unraveled with no strategic gain to show for it. More critically, Israel's pullout did not weaken Hezbollah, but it elevated the group into a symbol of victory over the s ...
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Rubio’s Difficult Mission to Save "Petrodollar Order" in Persian Gulf
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Rubio’s Difficult Mission to Save "Petrodollar Order" in Persian Gulf

Saturday 27 June 2026 ،
member states issued a joint statement rejecting Iran's imposition of tolls on Hormuz transits. In a comment, Rubio said that if Iran wants to toll the transit in the Strait of Hormuz, this will spread in the world like virus and then any country can try to impose transit fees on the internatio ...
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Iraq Crackdown on Corruption: Ex-officials Detained, Billions in Cash and Gold Recovered
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Iraq Crackdown on Corruption: Ex-officials Detained, Billions in Cash and Gold Recovered

Monday 29 June 2026 ،
members of parliament and previous government officials. According to security and media resources, the operation was launched in the early hours of Sunday morning with the closure of all gates of the Green Zone. A convoy of armored vehicles operated by the Counterterrorism Service entered the Gree ...

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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.