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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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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
Islamic Republic of Iran, unless the Americans fulfill their obligations toward Iran. Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz will return to pre-war conditions only when the shadow of threats, assassination, and naval blockade is effectively lifted, and when Iran can achieve some of its other fundamental de ...
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US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?
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US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?

Tuesday 1 September 2026 ،
Islamic Resistance groups on US interests in the region, alongside renewed tensions between Washington and Tehran. The speed and secrecy of the Western withdrawal have resurrected painful memories for some Kurds of the US exit from northern and eastern Syria. Back then, the American pullout from Ku ...
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle

Saturday 19 September 2026 ،
Islamic countries. Mecca and regional coalition-making The third axis has to do with the coalitions equation. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has sought to build a network of regional and extra-regional support, leaning on its ties with the US, its claim to leadership of the (Persian) Gulf Cooperati ...
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Second Sayyed Nasrallah Anniversary: Display of Loyalty to Resistance Legacy
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Second Sayyed Nasrallah Anniversary: Display of Loyalty to Resistance Legacy

Monday 28 September 2026 ،
Islamic nation, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Qassem continued. Anniversary ceremonies in regional countries In addition to Lebanon, in some regional countries the anniversary was marked. In the Yemeni capital Sana'a, the second anniversary was held. Mohammad Meftah, the interim prime minister of ...
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Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei Pays Tribute to Nasrallah, Reiterates Iran’s Commitment
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Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei Pays Tribute to Nasrallah, Reiterates Iran’s Commitment

Tuesday 29 September 2026 ،
Islamic Republic and became a defining element of its identity. He said the period left lessons of courage, faith, resistance, morality and national solidarity. He also rejected any return to what he characterized as Iran’s former era of dependence and humiliation, emphasizing independence, d ...
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Honesty, Bluntness, and Resistance Are Secrets Making Nasrallah Remembered: Iranian Expert
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Honesty, Bluntness, and Resistance Are Secrets Making Nasrallah Remembered: Iranian Expert

Tuesday 29 September 2026 ،
Islamic Republic. Even today, there are figures in Iraq and elsewhere who are wholly devoted to the Islamic Republic and believe in this thinking, yet refrain from openly declaring that position or stating plainly that they follow the leadership and religious authority of Iran's Supreme Leader. ...
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert

Saturday 3 October 2026 ،
Islamic resistance in Iraq with the help of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Obama was forced to withdraw American troops, and even as the occupiers were pulling out of Iraq, the Americans were afraid of being attacked by resistance forces. Afghahi described the 2011 withdrawal as a serious defeat for ...
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US Ouster from Iraq Prelude to Its Expulsion from the Region: Former Iranian Amb. to Iraq
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US Ouster from Iraq Prelude to Its Expulsion from the Region: Former Iranian Amb. to Iraq

Monday 5 October 2026 ،
Islamic Republic of Iran has championed that position from the start. Referring to past Iran-US talks over Iraq, he said that when Iraq was under American occupation and Washington had no intention of leaving, the Americans, mired in a security quagmire, raised the idea of negotiating with Iran. T ...
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Velayati Condemns Rubio’s Remarks, Says US Has No Moral Authority to Lecture Others
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Velayati Condemns Rubio’s Remarks, Says US Has No Moral Authority to Lecture Others

Saturday 10 October 2026 ،
Islamic Revolution but about Iran’s identity as an independent and historically established civilization. He maintained that resistance should not be celebrated in one context and condemned in another, depending on whose interests it serves. The Iranian official concluded by citing the US rol ...
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Iraq, the Graveyard of American Military Strategy in West Asia
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Iraq, the Graveyard of American Military Strategy in West Asia

Sunday 11 October 2026 ،
Islamic resistance in Iraq. The cost of this adventure exceeded $2 trillion, thousands of American troops were killed and wounded, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians lost their lives. But the final outcome was neither dominance over Baghdad nor cementing an American-aligned order. On the ...

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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.