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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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Mecca Agreement: Seeking Security in Mirage of a Sunni Bloc
Report

Mecca Agreement: Seeking Security in Mirage of a Sunni Bloc

Saturday 8 August 2026
based, and even sectarian overtones, a discourse that for years has made part of Saudi security rhetoric. But field realities of the region have always proven more complicated than such binary framings. Erdogan's motivation behind coalition making with Saudi Arabia  Turkey's entry int ...
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End
Interview

Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
based Andisheh Sazan-e-Nour Institute for Strategic Studies, asking him about the aspects of these developments and their impacts on the region. Alwaght: While unofficial speculations and formal comments by the White House officials suggested that an agreement over the Strait of Hormuz is close to ...
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Iran’s Central Bank Governor in Iraq: Where is Settling $11 Billion Iraqi Debt to Iran Going?
Analysis

Iran’s Central Bank Governor in Iraq: Where is Settling $11 Billion Iraqi Debt to Iran Going?

Wednesday 19 August 2026 ،
based on the past agreements. Within this framework, Central Bank of Iran Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati traveled to Iraq on Sunday at the head of a high-ranking economic delegation for talks with senior officials on financial and economic issues. In Baghdad, Hemmati met with his Iraq counterpart Niz ...
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Iran Condemns New US Sanctions as Violation of UN Members’ Sovereignty
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Iran Condemns New US Sanctions as Violation of UN Members’ Sovereignty

Saturday 22 August 2026 ،
based international system and lead to a return to “full-scale classic colonialism.”
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Iran Vows to Target US Bases in Europe if Nations Join Hostilities
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Iran Vows to Target US Bases in Europe if Nations Join Hostilities

Monday 24 August 2026 ،
bases in European countries could be targeted ALWAGHT- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei warns that US bases in European countries could be targeted if those nations participate in aggression against Iran. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei warned that US bases in Eur ...
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Why’s the New US Economic Campaign against Iran a Failure Story?
Paper

Why’s the New US Economic Campaign against Iran a Failure Story?

Wednesday 26 August 2026 ،
based on national currencies and barter The second factor is the sprawling network of exchange houses, financial intermediaries, shell companies, and indirect money transfer channels. This network has in fact become a primary target of the new US sanctions. Bessent explicitly called out exchanges, ...
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Final Tehran-Muscat Mechanism for Strait of Hormuz: US not in Agreement
Report

Final Tehran-Muscat Mechanism for Strait of Hormuz: US not in Agreement

Wednesday 26 August 2026 ،
based talks. This carries major geopolitical weight. Actually it demonstrates that while the U.S. can impose sanctions, it cannot rewrite the region's geography. The Strait of Hormuz lies between the Iranian and Omani coasts, and any durable framework for managing it must inevitably account for ...
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Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?
Analysis

Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?

Monday 31 August 2026 ،
bases in these countries showed thar the existence of the US on the soil does not necessarily mean full immunity of Washington’s allies in the Persian Gulf. The AP reports that Iranian attacks and protracted war have questioned reliability of the US security guarantees. For the UAE and Saudi ...
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Renewed US-Iran Confrontation: Is the White House Prepared for War?
Analysis

Renewed US-Iran Confrontation: Is the White House Prepared for War?

Wednesday 2 September 2026 ،
bases in Jordan, King Hussein and Al-Azraq, inflicting heavy damage with ballistic missiles. Aggression and criminality will not resolve the enemy’s desperation to weaken the Islamic Republic’s control over the Strait of Hormuz. Every shot fired will be met with even more devastating ret ...
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Turkey-Israel Face-off in Eastern Mediterranean
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Turkey-Israel Face-off in Eastern Mediterranean

Friday 4 September 2026 ،
base in northern Syria. This timing matters because it suggests that reinforcing Turkey's position in Cyprus is not merely an ad hoc reaction to events in Syria. Rather, it appears to be part of a broader strategic calculus by Ankara to push back against Israel's growing military footprint a ...

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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.