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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 FM Blames US, Its Persian Gulf Allies for West Asia Crises
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Iran FM Blames US, Its Persian Gulf Allies for West Asia Crises

Tuesday 2 October 2018
Mogherini announced, in a joint press conference with Zarif in New York, the E3+2 group of countries will establish a ‘special purpose vehicle’ to facilitate payments related to Iran’s exports as part of efforts to salvage the 2015 deal. She later noted the EU’s initiat ...
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Trump’s INF Quitting Harms Friends not Foes
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Trump’s INF Quitting Harms Friends not Foes

Tuesday 23 October 2018 ،
Mogherini said in a statement, adding: “Thanks to the INF treaty, almost 3,000 missiles with nuclear and conventional warheads have been removed and verifiably destroyed. The world doesn’t need a new arms race that would benefit no one and on the contrary would bring even more instabilit ...
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Khashoggi Killing: How the World Reacted to Saudi Story
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Khashoggi Killing: How the World Reacted to Saudi Story

Wednesday 24 October 2018 ،
Mogherini, EU foreign policy chief, called for comprehensive and apparent investigation. She said that the Saudi action was a “shocking violation” of the 1963 Vienna Convention on consular relations. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel, talking to her party in a meeting in the east of t ...
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EU Slams US Sanctions on Iran, Vows to Protect Trade
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EU Slams US Sanctions on Iran, Vows to Protect Trade

Saturday 3 November 2018 ،
Mogherini and the E3 ministers of foreign affairs and finance expressed “deep regret” over the US reimposition of its unilateral sanctions on Iran following a May decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. The statement described the 2015 agreement as cru ...
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Libya Peace Talks,  Conflicting Foreign Interests
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Libya Peace Talks, Conflicting Foreign Interests

Tuesday 13 November 2018 ،
Mogherini to the Palermo meeting. Frail hope of peace under EU powers' cleavages The resource-rich Libya has transformed a source of illegal migration and organized human trafficking to the Union’s member states and the chaos and collapse of government turned Libya into a safe haven for ...
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Israeli Regime Destroys TV station HQ in Gaza
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Israeli Regime Destroys TV station HQ in Gaza

Tuesday 13 November 2018 ،
Mogherini, said that the escalation of violence in and around Gaza during the last hours is very alarming. The EU urges both parties to step back from the brink and avoid any further actions that would contribute to the escalation, put civilians’ lives at risk, and jeopardize recent efforts t ...
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Central Asia’s Significance, Challenges for EU
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Central Asia’s Significance, Challenges for EU

Wednesday 28 November 2018 ،
Mogherini, the EU foreign policy chief, participated in Central Asia-Afghanistan summit in mid-March. She tried to help shore up Central Asian security and economic cooperation to face the extremist militias and thus prevent intensification of regional crises. After 9/11, EU sought to reshape securi ...
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Iran Nuclear Deal in Danger Over Continued US Pressure: Deputy FM
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Iran Nuclear Deal in Danger Over Continued US Pressure: Deputy FM

Thursday 29 November 2018 ،
Mogherini in Brussels. He said the EU's efforts were encouraging but added: We have not yet seen any tangible results.  
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EU Urges Turkey to Refrain From Unilateral Action in Syria
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EU Urges Turkey to Refrain From Unilateral Action in Syria

Thursday 27 December 2018 ،
Mogherini said in a statement on Saturday that Turkey’s threat to launch a fresh offensive into east of the Euphrates river to battle Kurdish militants was a source of concern, adding that such unilateral moves would undermine efforts by a Western military alliance in Syria that alleges to be ...
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Netanyahu Govt. Collapse Blow to Hardline Policies
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Netanyahu Govt. Collapse Blow to Hardline Policies

Saturday 29 December 2018 ،
Mogherini wanted Tel Aviv of continued settlement projects and demolition of a West Bank village. The Israeli policies over the past few years have largely endangered the European interests in West Asia region, pushing the bloc to seek ways to protect itself from resultant harms. EU also separated ...

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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