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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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Can Iran Destroy US Aircraft Carrier?
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Can Iran Destroy US Aircraft Carrier?

Saturday 31 January 2026
Navy in a potential confrontation with reliance on satellite power unreliant on the Western technology. Vahid Yazdanian, the director of Iran's Space Research Center, had asserted that Tehran through long steps in the space industry has managed to develop domestic technology for building communi ...
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Why’s the US Air Defense Chain Weak against Iran’s Missiles?
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Why’s the US Air Defense Chain Weak against Iran’s Missiles?

Wednesday 4 February 2026 ،
Navy has positioned two destroyers, the USS McFaul and USS Mitscher, in the Persian Gulf. In the Red Sea, it has deployed the guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black. Reuters reported that with its arrival, the total number of US destroyers in West Asia has risen to six. Meanwhile, the Navy ...
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How Would the World Look Like if Strait of Hormuz Closed?
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How Would the World Look Like if Strait of Hormuz Closed?

Saturday 21 February 2026 ،
Navy captain aboard a warship in the Persian Gulf told the BBC his biggest fear is a coordinated Iranian assault using swarms of drones and ballistic missiles aimed at American vessels. In such a scenario, Iran could launch so many explosive drones and fast-attack torpedo boats at once that even the ...
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Introducing Sayyad-3G, Iran’s Latest Naval Missile
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Introducing Sayyad-3G, Iran’s Latest Naval Missile

Sunday 22 February 2026 ،
Navy’s “Smart Control of the Strait of Hormuz” exercise, highlighting its role in enhancing the air defense capabilities of Iran’s combat fleet. Derived from the land-based Sayyad-3 missile, the Sayyad-3G has been adapted for maritime use, providing medium-range air defense ...
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Hundreds Demonstrate in Crete Over US Carrier Deployment
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Hundreds Demonstrate in Crete Over US Carrier Deployment

Wednesday 25 February 2026 ،
Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 12, headed by the supercarrier USS Gerald Ford, at Souda Bay has triggered anti-war demonstrations ALWAGHT- The arrival of the US Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 12, headed by the supercarrier USS Gerald Ford, at Souda Bay has triggered anti-war demonstrations on the Gr ...
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Fourth Day of War: How’s Iran Responding?
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Fourth Day of War: How’s Iran Responding?

Wednesday 4 March 2026 ،
Iran is adopting decentralized military command strategy to strike American and Israeli positions without delay. Alwaght- The zero hour of the Israeli-American war on Iran arrived on Saturday with the aggression on the highest political official of Iran and the religious leader of the world's Sh ...
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Trump and the Black Day of Air Force
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Trump and the Black Day of Air Force

Monday 6 April 2026 ،
Navy crew member said that downing an F-15 at high altitude is bad news. But downing A-10 Warthog is a worse sign.  This aircraft is our toughest low-altitude assault plane. If an Iranian shoulder-fired missile hit it, then our regular helicopters and the Marine Corps tiltrotors, if we want to ...
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Strait of Hormuz Saw No Commercial or Oil Tanker Traffic in Past Hours, Says IRGC
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Strait of Hormuz Saw No Commercial or Oil Tanker Traffic in Past Hours, Says IRGC

Tuesday 5 May 2026 ،
Navy guided-missile destroyers had entered the Persian Gulf and that two American ships had passed through the Strait of Hormuz. This came after Iran's Navy announced that it had turned away a US warship approaching the strategic waterway, which Iran has controlled since the early days of the wa ...
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Trump’s "Project Freedom" a Failure Story
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Trump’s "Project Freedom" a Failure Story

Tuesday 5 May 2026 ،
Navy frigate. American officials tried to project that their freedom-of-navigation operation had succeeded, claiming two American commercial vessels had passed through the Strait of Hormuz without incident. But the IRGC’s public relations office rejected those claims outright, stating: &ldquo ...
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Iran’s Perplexing and Complex Military Strategy in Strait of Hormuz
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Iran’s Perplexing and Complex Military Strategy in Strait of Hormuz

Wednesday 6 May 2026 ،
Tehran holds an array of instruments ready to deploy to ensure that it controls the Strait of Hormuz. Alwaght- Trump's so-called Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz in its first day of implementation ran into the firm obstacle of the Iranian armed forces and failed to produce the expected re ...

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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.