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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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Impossible to Disarm and Dissolve Iraqi Resistance, US Pushing to Obliterate Resistance in the Region: Expert
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Impossible to Disarm and Dissolve Iraqi Resistance, US Pushing to Obliterate Resistance in the Region: Expert

Monday 15 June 2026
Islamic Republic of Iran has changed and Tehran is now recognized regional power but also the US has sustained a bitter defeat whose aftershocks keep reverberating in the American and Israeli societies and also in Washington’s relations with other world powers. Regional countries have also dif ...
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12-Day War Anniversary: Precious Lessons Used in 40-Day War
Analysis

12-Day War Anniversary: Precious Lessons Used in 40-Day War

Wednesday 17 June 2026 ،
Islamic Revolution that toppled the pro-Western monarchy of Pahlavi, to the epic liberation of Khorramshahr during the eight-year war with Saddam's Ba'athist regime. This month became even more memorable for Iranians with the US-aided Israeli aggression in Iran last year that led to 12-day ...
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Iranian Unity in World Cup Match Neutralized Planned Controversy
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Iranian Unity in World Cup Match Neutralized Planned Controversy

Wednesday 17 June 2026 ،
Islamic Republic groups abroad were busy trying to turn the sporting event into a stage for political demands and conflicts. The World Cup has always been football’s biggest showcase, an event that draws billions of viewers worldwide and locks in international media attention. Seizing on that ...
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Two Clashing Views: Ambiguities of Strait of Hormuz Legal Status Post-War
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Two Clashing Views: Ambiguities of Strait of Hormuz Legal Status Post-War

Sunday 21 June 2026 ،
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), signaling that things would not simply revert to pre-war conditions, has warned under the new arrangements that vessels must strictly route through the vicinity of Larak Island and any deviation will be treated as a violation. These dueling interpretations ...
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Crackdown on Muharram: Taliban Continue Religious Suppression of Shiite Community
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Crackdown on Muharram: Taliban Continue Religious Suppression of Shiite Community

Monday 22 June 2026 ،
Islamic Emirate's ears are deaf. In all this time, we have not been able to meet with top-level officials. Never in Kandahar. Bahsudi added that Shiite scholars had sent a roughly 200-page letter to the Taliban leader's office, and it is been two years with no reply. Our letters go unanswe ...
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Why Do Bahrain’s Shiites Need Axis of Resistance’s Security Umbrella?
Analysis

Why Do Bahrain’s Shiites Need Axis of Resistance’s Security Umbrella?

Wednesday 24 June 2026 ،
Islamic Al-Wefaq movement, released new figures on the crackdown against Shiites in recent days, reporting 560 arrests and the revocation of citizenship for 69 Bahrainis on charges of voicing support to Iran.  Bahrain's government accuses these individuals of threatening national security, ...
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Iran and Pakistan: Emerging Axis in New West Asia Security Order Architecture
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Iran and Pakistan: Emerging Axis in New West Asia Security Order Architecture

Saturday 27 June 2026 ،
Islamic Republic on major strategic issues: defending the Palestinian cause, confronting Israeli aggression against regional states, rejecting normalization with the regime, opposing American-Israeli plans to redraw the region's historic geopolitical boundaries, and backing Iran's peaceful u ...
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Love of Imam Hussein Gathers Us: Ashura 2026 Marked Across the World
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Love of Imam Hussein Gathers Us: Ashura 2026 Marked Across the World

Saturday 27 June 2026 ،
Islamic Revolution, Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Reports suggested that from north to south, including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta, Skardu, Gilgit, and Hyderabad, millions of mourners turned out in force, forming processions of eulogy reciters, chest-beating con ...
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Armenian Genocide: New Israeli Card in Geopolitical Contest with Turkey
Analysis

Armenian Genocide: New Israeli Card in Geopolitical Contest with Turkey

Thursday 2 July 2026 ،
Islamic Republic, which it views as the single greatest existential threat. Within that framework, Israeli regime has trained its sights on Central Asia and the Caucasus, looking to open new channels of engagement. The developments of the past few years, particularly since the Second Nagorno-Karaba ...
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Martyred Leader Was Honest, Inspired Russians: Russian Citizen Attending Ayatollah Khamenei’s Commemorations
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Martyred Leader Was Honest, Inspired Russians: Russian Citizen Attending Ayatollah Khamenei’s Commemorations

Saturday 4 July 2026 ،
Islamic Republic will continue to overcome its enemies and drive them from the region. While the loss is irreparable for Muslims worldwide, he went on, the leader's intellectual and spiritual legacy will continue to inspire millions, and his name and ideas, after his martyrdom, will become even ...

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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.