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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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Pompeo’s Ironophobic Regional Tour Showcase of US Failure
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Pompeo’s Ironophobic Regional Tour Showcase of US Failure

Friday 25 January 2019
Michigan State University, in his book Common Dreams addresses the issue. He argues that he was surprised by the views on the so-called grand alliance against Iran and the low degree of support to it. Nowadays, giving attention to the public opinion in political decisions is highly signif ...
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Activists Reject US Resolution Accusing Muslim Congresswomen of Antisemitism
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Activists Reject US Resolution Accusing Muslim Congresswomen of Antisemitism

Tuesday 29 January 2019 ،
Michigan, and Omar, a former Somali-American state legislator in Minnesota who came to the United States as a refugee, were sworn in as the first Muslim women in Congress earlier this month. They are part of a wave of progressive women of colour who won Democratic seats in November's mid-term e ...
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Trump’s Push to Blacklist Muslim Brotherhood Threatens Muslim Americans
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Trump’s Push to Blacklist Muslim Brotherhood Threatens Muslim Americans

Wednesday 1 May 2019 ،
Michigan-Dearborn. The US president is working to blacklist the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist group, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing administration officials, including a White House spokeswoman. The designation would debilitate the group's ability to operate inte ...
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Was Interest in Peace behind Trump’s Kim Meeting?
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Was Interest in Peace behind Trump’s Kim Meeting?

Monday 1 July 2019 ،
Michigan following an investigation after the September 9, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Organization in New York and elsewhere in the US concluded that the people in the life-threatening conditions politically tend to the neoconservatives in the country. Findings of another investigation suggest ...
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Trump’s Efforts to Fuel Democratic Infighting Fails
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Trump’s Efforts to Fuel Democratic Infighting Fails

Monday 15 July 2019 ،
Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib, Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar, and Massachusetts’ Ayanna Pressley, who are engaged in a feud with Pelosi in the lower chamber of US Congress. Despite Trump’s line of attack, only one of the squad actually hails from outside the United States. Ilhan Omar wa ...
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US House Condemns Trump’s ’Racist Comments’
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US House Condemns Trump’s ’Racist Comments’

Wednesday 17 July 2019 ،
Michigan and Ayanna Pressley Massachusetts, Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday, “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Speaking on the House floor prior to Tuesday vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged both Democratic a ...
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Republican Support for Trump Rises after Racist Tweets: Poll
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Republican Support for Trump Rises after Racist Tweets: Poll

Wednesday 17 July 2019 ،
Michigan - are US citizens. Three were born in the United States. The public response to Trump’s statements appeared to be a little better for him than in 2017, after the president said there were “very fine people” on both sides of a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesvi ...
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Trump Calls Democrat Lawmakers ’Do Nothing Savages’
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Trump Calls Democrat Lawmakers ’Do Nothing Savages’

Sunday 29 September 2019 ،
Michigan, who is of Palestinian descent. The three are among at least 225 House Democrats who now support some type of impeachment action. Schiff and Nadler lead the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees, respectively, and have battled the administration while seeking more details on the pres ...
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Russia-Africa Summit: Why Is Africa Growing Important for Moscow?
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Russia-Africa Summit: Why Is Africa Growing Important for Moscow?

Sunday 27 October 2019 ،
Michigan-based think tank and politics college, since 2015 at least 12 African leaders traveled to Moscow and met with Russia’s Putin. This means that over the past four years, at least three African leaders visited Russia every year, showing interest in expanding ties with the Kremlin. It als ...
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US Congresswoman Slam’s ‘Lawless’, ’King-like’ Trump
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US Congresswoman Slam’s ‘Lawless’, ’King-like’ Trump

Sunday 17 November 2019 ،
Michigan representative. “And we’re winning because I think folks are realizing that our democracy has been hijacked by corporations.” She made the comments as the Trump administration was grappling with the pressure emanating from an impeachment inquiry in the lower chamber of th ...

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Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution