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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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Iran’s Leader Appoints New Armed Forces Chief of Staff
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Iran’s Leader Appoints New Armed Forces Chief of Staff

Tuesday 28 June 2016
Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri as the new Iran’s Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff. Alwaght- Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday appointed Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri as the new Iran’s Armed Forces' Chief of Staff. In a decree on Tuesda ...
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Iran Warns Saudi Arabia of Crushing Blow if it Attacks
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Iran Warns Saudi Arabia of Crushing Blow if it Attacks

Thursday 6 December 2018 ،
Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said on Monday in an address to a graduation ceremony of Police cadets in Tehran.
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US to Suffer Heavily in Naval Warfare with Iran: Top Cmdr.
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US to Suffer Heavily in Naval Warfare with Iran: Top Cmdr.

Thursday 11 May 2017 ،
Major General Mohammad Baqeri said on Thursday that US government has continuously made threats against Iran since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, and those threats have been mainly “sea-based”. In an address to a national conference on speedboats, held in Tehran’s Malek-As ...
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Iran’s Undisputed Position as Major Global Missile Power
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Iran’s Undisputed Position as Major Global Missile Power

Tuesday 20 June 2017 ،
Major General Mohammad Baqeri highlighted the country’s missile power and said the hegemonic powers cannot confront the Islamic Republic. Speaking at a gathering of technology activists in Tehran on Monday, Major General Baqeri highlighted the weakness of domineering powers in the face of the ...
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Iranian Officials Congratulate Iraq on Mosul Liberation, Defeat of ISIS
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Iranian Officials Congratulate Iraq on Mosul Liberation, Defeat of ISIS

Monday 10 July 2017 ،
Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri in his message described the liberation of Mosul as the manifestation of national unity and resistance. He expressed confidence that close cooperation between the armed forces of Iran and Iraq would foil the plots by the “hegemonic and trans-regional power ...
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Iran Warns US against Sanctions on IRGC
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Iran Warns US against Sanctions on IRGC

Monday 17 July 2017 ،
Major General Mohammad Baqeri said Monday that, “Putting IRGC together with terrorist groups and imposing the same sanctions (used against terrorists) on IRGC would be a big risk to the US and its bases and forces stationed in the region.” Speaking at a gathering of IRGC Ground Force co ...
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Imposing Sanctions on IRGC to Result in Dire Consequence for US: Cmdr.
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Imposing Sanctions on IRGC to Result in Dire Consequence for US: Cmdr.

Wednesday 19 July 2017 ،
Major General Mohammad Ali Ja’afari said in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Wednesday that the US bases in the region would be insecure if Washington blacklisted the IRGC or imposed sanctions on Iran over its defense program.   “If the US seeks to pursue sanctions against ...
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Iranian Naval Forces Warn Hostile US Warship in Sea of Oman
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Iranian Naval Forces Warn Hostile US Warship in Sea of Oman

Sunday 10 September 2017 ،
Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri slammed the US for dispatching its naval forces to the Persian Gulf from thousands of miles away and trying to force other vessels to make arrangements with American warships when passing by. “The international maritime law has set regulations for territo ...
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Iran Unveils Ballistic Missile in Annual Military Parade
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Iran Unveils Ballistic Missile in Annual Military Parade

Friday 22 September 2017 ،
Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri.     The ballistic missile, which has a range of 2,000 kilometers, is capable of carrying multiple warheads, said Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Division. The missile h ...
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Iran, Iraq Military Commanders Hold Talks after Kurdish Referendum
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Iran, Iraq Military Commanders Hold Talks after Kurdish Referendum

Thursday 28 September 2017 ،
Major General Mohammad Baqeri on Wednesday received his Iraqi counterpart Major General Othman al-Ghanmi, who arrived in Tehran at the head of a military delegation earlier in the day. The issue of terrorism, the Kurdish independence vote and matters of mutual interest were among the major topics d ...

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36th anniversary of the  passing of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran / Imam Khomeini (RA)

36th anniversary of the passing of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran / Imam Khomeini (RA)