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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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Mashhad Summit, Ideal Opportunity to Boost ECO Cooperation
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Mashhad Summit, Ideal Opportunity to Boost ECO Cooperation

Monday 2 December 2024
East-West and North-South corridors, which can control the economic pulse of the region by developing its infrastructures. Using the capacity of rail corridors for ECO trade development was raised at the organization's meeting in Tashkent in February 2023 by Iran's late Foreign Minister Hos ...
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Iran and Pakistan: A New Chapter of  Security and Military Partnership
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Iran and Pakistan: A New Chapter of Security and Military Partnership

Wednesday 22 January 2025 ،
East issue, the Islamic ummah today is witnessing a vacuum in the unity of the Islamic world. The brutal killing of nearly fifty thousand people, the destruction of homes and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are the result of the silence of the Islamic world. Military and ...
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Iran and EAEU Partnership: Blurring the Trade, Energy, and Transit Borders
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Iran and EAEU Partnership: Blurring the Trade, Energy, and Transit Borders

Sunday 2 February 2025 ،
East-West Corridor can increase Iran's transit revenues, and by developing infrastructure and increasing the transportation of goods, Iran can become a trade hub in the region. Having in mind that Iran and the Eurasian countries are the only regions located along the North-South and East-West C ...
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Indian Ocean Conference: Iranian FM Visit’s Significance, Aims
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Indian Ocean Conference: Iranian FM Visit’s Significance, Aims

Monday 17 February 2025 ،
East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) to connect India to Europe to compete with this megaproject. Meanwhile, Iran, due to its strategic location in the northern Indian Ocean, plays an important role in ensuring energy security, transportation, and regional trade. Chabahar Port, as one of Iran&rsquo ...
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Iran and Sudan: Emerging Partnership in Horn of Africa
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Iran and Sudan: Emerging Partnership in Horn of Africa

Wednesday 26 February 2025 ،
East policy. In the period after toppling of long-serving President Omar al-Bashir in 2019, Sudan has not seen political stability and has been a setting for political and social confrontation of the regular army and the militias and this, by the way, has become the motivation for shift of approach ...
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Iran-China-Russia: The Emerging Pole of Naval Power
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Iran-China-Russia: The Emerging Pole of Naval Power

Sunday 16 March 2025 ،
Eastern powers are ready to respond with greater coordination to the West’s containment strategy. By holding joint exercises in Venezuela in July 2022, the three countries sent the message to the Americans that they can easily penetrate its backyard, and now they are showing off this power to ...
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Aspects of Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan Agreement
Analysis

Aspects of Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan Agreement

Sunday 6 April 2025 ،
East to West and North to South, Central Asia has been the focus of major economic and trade projects of economic powers, including China, Russia, India, and Europe in recent years. In this context, the role of Central Asia in advancing the grand Road and Belt Initiative (RBI) of China project is hi ...
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Iran and Azerbaijan: Neighbors with High Partnership Potentials
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Iran and Azerbaijan: Neighbors with High Partnership Potentials

Monday 28 April 2025 ،
East Asia. Having in mind that the main exports of Azerbaijan include oil products and energy, Iran's oil export terminals in the Persian Gulf provide a great opportunity for Baku to export its energy to Eastern markets. In the 2017, when tensions between Qatar and the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation ...
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Yemen’s Air Defense a Tough Test for US Air Superiority
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Yemen’s Air Defense a Tough Test for US Air Superiority

Saturday 3 May 2025 ،
Eastern Bloc countries. These weapons included short-range air defense missiles such as the Sam-7, Sam-14 and Sam-16. However, in the early 2000s, the US, under the pretext of preventing terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda from accessing these weapons, put pressure on the Saleh government to destroy s ...
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BRICS Security Cooperation and Iran’s Key Role
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BRICS Security Cooperation and Iran’s Key Role

Saturday 3 May 2025 ،
East Asia, BRICS can make a key platform to manage international crises. China, Russia, and Iran have held several joint naval drills in the Indian Ocean, Sea of Oman, and the Persian Gulf in demonstration of unity to secure navigation and shipping lines and counter trans-regional interventions.&nbs ...

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Breathtaking and sad moments of Shahid Rajaee Port Iran mourns