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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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Top Iranian General Urges Peaceful Solution to Armenia-Azerbaijan Dispute
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Top Iranian General Urges Peaceful Solution to Armenia-Azerbaijan Dispute

Tuesday 4 October 2022
Nagorno-Karabakh region should be settled through peaceful channels. Alwaght- Top Iranian commander Major General Mohammad Baqeri said the ongoing dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region should be settled through peaceful channels. Chairman of the Chiefs of Staf ...
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Erdogan’s Role in Karabakh Peace Talks: Goals and Interests
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Erdogan’s Role in Karabakh Peace Talks: Goals and Interests

Sunday 9 October 2022 ،
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and mediated in situations to defuse war possibility and lead the two countries to a peace path when tensions escalated. But Russia is busy with Ukraine war and Moscow’s leaders are less active in the Karabakh issue, and this is a good opportunity for Erdogan, who has ...
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Iran’s Policies Guaranteeing Sustainable Peace in Karabakh
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Iran’s Policies Guaranteeing Sustainable Peace in Karabakh

Sunday 23 October 2022 ،
Nagorno-Karabakh as its own territory, arguing that all of its territories occupied by Armenia during the post-independence era should be returned to the mainland Azerbaijan. Although Azerbaijan managed to take back large swaths of Karabakh from Armenia in 2020 with, some more areas are still under ...
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Iran Calls for Intra-Regional Resolution of Caucasus’ Problems
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Iran Calls for Intra-Regional Resolution of Caucasus’ Problems

Wednesday 9 November 2022 ،
Nagorno-Karabakh region. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but has been populated by ethnic Armenians. The Islamic Republic has invariably placed emphasis on the need for the neighbors to respect each other's territorial integrity, the official said. Iran ha ...
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Azerbaijan President Says Baku Has No Plan for New War with Armenia
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Azerbaijan President Says Baku Has No Plan for New War with Armenia

Wednesday 11 January 2023 ،
Nagorno-Karabakh. Alwaght- Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday his country has no plans to engage in another military conflict with neighboring Armenia as tensions between the two nations have been running high for months over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. &ldquo ...
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EU’s Anti-Russian Security Mission in Karabakh
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EU’s Anti-Russian Security Mission in Karabakh

Monday 30 January 2023 ،
Nagorno-Karabakh crisis in 1992, Moscow has played as a mediator between Armenia and Azerbaijan and opposed foreign interventions in the South Caucasus. Moscow considers the republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia to be its backyard and deems presence of the West in these areas is a danger to its ...
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Israel Regime Exports Weapons to Azerbaijan in Return for Access to Iran, Oil: Paper
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Israel Regime Exports Weapons to Azerbaijan in Return for Access to Iran, Oil: Paper

Monday 6 March 2023 ،
Nagorno-Karabakh region. Haaretz also cited foreign media reports that said Azerbaijan has allowed the Israeli spy agency Mossad to set up a forward branch in Azerbaijan to monitor what is happening in neighboring Iran and has even prepared an airfield intended to aid the occupying entity in case i ...
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Why’s Baku Escalating Karabakh Tensions?
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Why’s Baku Escalating Karabakh Tensions?

Friday 24 March 2023 ،
Nagorno-Karabakh as the territory of Azerbaijan. Armenia should sign a peace treaty with us and delimit the borders according to our conditions,” said Aliyev.  The Azerbaijani president who is further destabilizing Caucasus claimed in a message last week that peace and stability in the r ...
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Conflict in Caucasus Benefits No Country, Any Geographical Change Leads to Tension: Iran
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Conflict in Caucasus Benefits No Country, Any Geographical Change Leads to Tension: Iran

Monday 10 April 2023 ،
Nagorno-Karabakh region on the border between the two countries. Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but has a primarily Armenian population that has resisted Azerbaijani rule since a separatist war there ended in 1994. In 2020, the second Karabakh war broke out, killing ...
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Tensions Rise in Karabakh after Azerbaijan Set up Checkpoint on Land Route to Enclave
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Tensions Rise in Karabakh after Azerbaijan Set up Checkpoint on Land Route to Enclave

Monday 24 April 2023 ،
Nagorno-Karabakh region in a controversial move that contravenes a standing agreement, which specifies that the region must be under Russian control. Alwaght- Azerbaijan has set up a checkpoint on the only land route connecting Armenia to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in a controversial move ...

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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