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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 Thwarts Terrorist Attacks, Arrests Culprits
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Iran Thwarts Terrorist Attacks, Arrests Culprits

Tuesday 10 November 2015
Mazandaran, Tehran and Sistan-Baluchestan provinces, the minister added. The minister also said 14 others had been detained in connection with last month’s terror attack in the Safiabad district of the city of Dezful in the southwestern Khuzestan Province. He said eight of the 14 detainees were th ...
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Takfiris Terrorists Detain Bodies of 12 IRGC Advisers Killed in Syria
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Takfiris Terrorists Detain Bodies of 12 IRGC Advisers Killed in Syria

Tuesday 10 May 2016 ،
Mazandaran. Fighting still continues in these areas and access to the martyrs’ bodies will be possible [only] after the liberation of the areas, ISNA quoted an IRGC spokesman, Hossein Ali Rezaei, as saying on Tuesday. He added that all other forces from Mazandaran as well as nine of the inju ...
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Iran’s Soleimani warns Pakistan Over Saudi Plots, Terrorism
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Iran’s Soleimani warns Pakistan Over Saudi Plots, Terrorism

Thursday 21 February 2019 ،
Mazandaran province Major General Soleimani warned that the Pakistani Army not to let several billion dollars of a Saudi criminal burn alive Muslims on a bus and finance other terrorist operations in the region, and said, I ask the Pakistani government what has been left for Pakistan? I warn you no ...
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Iran’s Armed Forces Relief Aid to Flood-Hit Northern Region
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Iran’s Armed Forces Relief Aid to Flood-Hit Northern Region

Sunday 24 March 2019 ،
Mazandaran. Ayatollah Khamenei also ordered Iran's Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Baqeri to step up relief efforts in the flood-hit areas, where incessant rain has affected over 56,000 people in at least 70 villages in Golestan and more than 200 in Mazandaran, according to local official ...
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19  Killed in Iran Flash Floods as President Rouhani Declares Nationwide Emergency Alert
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19 Killed in Iran Flash Floods as President Rouhani Declares Nationwide Emergency Alert

Tuesday 26 March 2019 ،
Mazandaran and Golestan. Elsewhere, President Rouhani issued a message, extending his condolences to the victims of recent floods in a number of Iranian provinces and urging all concerned officials to boost their efforts to solve the problems that face flood-stricken areas of the country. “I ...
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Iran Introduces Contingency Plans as Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 8
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Iran Introduces Contingency Plans as Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 8

Sunday 23 February 2020 ،
Mazandaran, Golestan, Hamadan, Alborz, Semnan, Kordestan and the capital, Tehran. Spokesman for Tehran's Department of Education, Masoud Saghafi, said the decision was made to prepare schools which have to be disinfected and sanitized. Tehran’s Mayor Pirouz Hanachi said Sunday that all t ...
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Iran Considers Healthcare Defenders Who Die in Coronavirus Fight as Martyrs
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Iran Considers Healthcare Defenders Who Die in Coronavirus Fight as Martyrs

Wednesday 11 March 2020 ،
Mazandaran, Isfahan, Rasht and Qom, where the virus was first found. The coronavirus initially emerged in China late last year and is now spreading in Europe and across the Middle East, sparking fears of a global pandemic. The illness, whose symptoms are fever, cough and difficulty breathing, may ...

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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.