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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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Russia vs America over Asia; Cooperation or Confrontation?
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Russia vs America over Asia; Cooperation or Confrontation?

Sunday 31 July 2016
Mikhail Gorbachev, decided on a triple plan which became the foundation of Russia’s strategies towards Asia. The first part consisted of “opening up” the “closed” areas in the Eastern Asia, areas like Vladivostok which because of security concerns were isolated from the ...
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Russia; Feeling of Threats, Requirements of New Rise
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Russia; Feeling of Threats, Requirements of New Rise

Saturday 22 October 2016 ،
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, and Boris Yeltsin are hated not because of disorder and chaos during their terms in office but because they impaired Russia’s place as a key world  rival of the US. It is very significant for the Russians not to be pushed to the side ...
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Iran Policy Not Changed 29 Years after Imam Khomeini’s Historic Letter to Gorbachev
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Iran Policy Not Changed 29 Years after Imam Khomeini’s Historic Letter to Gorbachev

Monday 2 January 2017 ،
Mikhail Gorbachev predicting the fall of Communism. Alwaght-In January 1988, founder of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini sent a historic letter to USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev predicting the fall of Communism. In the letter which was sent a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...
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Don’t Build This Wall: Berlin Mayor to Donald Trump
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Don’t Build This Wall: Berlin Mayor to Donald Trump

Saturday 28 January 2017 ،
Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!”, and said in his message to Trump: “Dear Mr President, don’t build this wall!” Source: The Guardian    
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US-Russia Relations Under Shadow of INF Treaty
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US-Russia Relations Under Shadow of INF Treaty

Monday 3 July 2017 ،
Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty. Dubbed Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) and signed in 1987, the agreement sought limiting number of the mid-range and long-range ballistic nuclear missiles of the two powers. The accord led to destruction of about 1846 Soviet and 8466 American missil ...
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Noble Peace Prize: Discriminatory, Serving West’s Interests
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Noble Peace Prize: Discriminatory, Serving West’s Interests

Monday 18 September 2017 ،
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union whose reform plan shattered the communist Soviet Union and thus rid the West of the biggest challenger to its capitalism. Another case was President Anwar Sadat of Egypt who was the first Arab leader to recognize and sign Camp David peace ac ...
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Trump to Scrap Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia
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Trump to Scrap Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia

Sunday 21 October 2018 ،
Mikhail Gorbachev, it led to nearly 2,700 short- and medium-range missiles being eliminated, and an end to a dangerous standoff between US Pershing and cruise missiles and Soviet SS-20 missiles in Europe. The US says Russia has been violating the INF agreement with the development and deployme ...
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US INF Pullout: Two Likely Scenarios
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US INF Pullout: Two Likely Scenarios

Sunday 24 February 2019 ،
Mikhail Gorbachev says the US President Trump's plan to withdraw from the Cold War nuclear weapons treaty was a reversal of efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament. Additionally, in a statement, Piers Cazalet, the NATO spokesman, said last week that Putin comments contained threatening messages t ...
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Why Does Turkey Want Nukes?
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Why Does Turkey Want Nukes?

Monday 30 September 2019 ،
Mikhail Gorbachev during the Cold War as a means to reduce the largely licentious American-Russian nuclear contest.  The treaty was, in theory, bilateral, but due to its scraping’s negative reflections on the security of the European allies in the NATO that host the American nukes has ca ...
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Iran Concerned over US Missile Tests, Unilateral Exit from INF
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Iran Concerned over US Missile Tests, Unilateral Exit from INF

Sunday 15 December 2019 ،
Mikhail Gorbachev, banned land-based missiles with a range of between 310 and 3,400 miles (500 to 5,500 km). Two major world powers and strategic partners, Russia and China, said on Friday the United States' recent test launch of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile clearly indicates Washin ...

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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.