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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 Urges Closer, Substantive Relations with Iraq Amid Global Shifts
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Iran Urges Closer, Substantive Relations with Iraq Amid Global Shifts

Saturday 6 September 2025
Council, has urged the expansion of concrete bilateral ties and broad cooperation with neighboring Iraq ALWAGHT- Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has urged the expansion of concrete bilateral ties and broad cooperation with neighboring Iraq amid evolving glo ...
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What’s Behind Israel’s Pilligrimage Road Project?
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What’s Behind Israel’s Pilligrimage Road Project?

Saturday 6 September 2025 ،
Council resolutions concerning the West Bank. However, buoyed by unwavering support from Washington and some Western nations, Tel Aviv perceives itself to be in a position where it can advance these measures without fear of legal consequences. In summary, the Pilgrimage Road is far from a simple pr ...
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Lebanese President Urges US to Push Israel Out of Southern Lebanon
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Lebanese President Urges US to Push Israel Out of Southern Lebanon

Sunday 7 September 2025 ،
Council Resolution 1701 established a ceasefire and buffer zone in southern Lebanon, while UNIFIL’s mandate was recently extended until the end of 2026. Despite the November 2024 ceasefire, Israel continues near-daily strikes in southern Lebanon, claiming to target Hezbollah, and still occupie ...
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Moscow Reports Close To 1,500 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in One Day Across Frontlines
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Moscow Reports Close To 1,500 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in One Day Across Frontlines

Saturday 13 September 2025 ،
Council, Russian envoy Vasily Nebenzya accused Ukraine’s leadership of deliberately prolonging the war to maintain power and secure Western backing. He claimed President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly abandoned peace initiatives, rejected Putin’s offer for talks in Moscow, and instead ...
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Indian-Israeli Alliance: From Military Partnership to Ideological Convergence
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Indian-Israeli Alliance: From Military Partnership to Ideological Convergence

Sunday 14 September 2025 ،
Council resolution that labeled Zionism as racism.  But the end of the Cold War and the geopolitical changes of the 1990s turned the tide. In 1999 and during Kargill War with Pakistan, Israel provided to India drone systems and laser-guided bombs pivotally enabling New Delhi actions against Is ...
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Can ’Peninsula Force’ Shield Persian Gulf Arab Monarchies against Israel?
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Can ’Peninsula Force’ Shield Persian Gulf Arab Monarchies against Israel?

Monday 15 September 2025 ،
Council, established in 1984. Its primary objectives were to provide collective defense for the Council's members against external threats and to ensure internal security in the event of unrest. The force's command headquarters is located in Saudi Arabia, and its troops are composed of milit ...
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Larijani’s Riyadh Visit: Laying the Groundwork for New Regional Security Order
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Larijani’s Riyadh Visit: Laying the Groundwork for New Regional Security Order

Friday 19 September 2025 ،
Council, this time visited Saudi Arabia as the new destination of his regional visits. The trip to the Arab kingdom is important not just in terms of bilateral relations, but also the broader geopolitical basis of the West Asia region and can remarkably influence the future regional developments by ...
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Saudi Arabia under Pakistani Nuclear Umbrella Amid Transforming Security Equations
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Saudi Arabia under Pakistani Nuclear Umbrella Amid Transforming Security Equations

Sunday 21 September 2025 ،
Council. Their defense ministers agreed that in the next months, the will launch joint war drills seeing them testing their air defense and conducting air operations. The primary objective of these measures is to achieve greater coordination in military area and to work out a unified strategy that ...
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What’s behind the US Designation of Iraqi Resistance Groups as Terrorists?
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What’s behind the US Designation of Iraqi Resistance Groups as Terrorists?

Monday 22 September 2025 ،
Council Ali Larijani who signed a security MoU with Iraq, senior Iraqi officials voiced worry that given the Israeli launch of attacks on Iran during the 12-day war using Iraqi airspace, odds are Tel Aviv will strike Baghdad in the future. In such a climate, this move could pave the way for violati ...
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European Recognition of Palestinian State a Political Show: Analyst
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European Recognition of Palestinian State a Political Show: Analyst

Wednesday 24 September 2025 ،
Council vote, the United States alone used its veto to stand against 14 votes, effectively voting for the continuation of the crimes of the child-killing Israeli regime. Therefore, the main achievement of such conferences is not an immediate change on the ground, but a political and diplomatic advan ...

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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.