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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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IRGC Continues Military Drills in The Strait of Hormuz for A Second Day
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IRGC Continues Military Drills in The Strait of Hormuz for A Second Day

Tuesday 17 February 2026
Navy Commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said Iran maintains constant surface, air, and subsurface surveillance to ensure safe passage for dozens of vessels transiting the waterway daily. He described Iranian islands in the strait as “impenetrable fortresses” and symbols of national ...
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IRGC Naval Forces Ready to Block Strait of Hormuz Upon Orders: Commander
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IRGC Naval Forces Ready to Block Strait of Hormuz Upon Orders: Commander

Tuesday 17 February 2026 ،
Navy, stated that Iran is ready to close the Strait of Hormuz whenever ordered by senior officials ALWAGHT- Rear Admiral Tangsiri, commander of Iran’s IRGC Navy, stated that Iran is ready to close the Strait of Hormuz whenever ordered by senior officials. Rear Admiral Tangsiri, overseeing the ...
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IRGC Navy’s Strait of Hormuz Drills Tells US Who’s the Boss in Persian Gulf
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IRGC Navy’s Strait of Hormuz Drills Tells US Who’s the Boss in Persian Gulf

Wednesday 18 February 2026 ،
Navy's latest drill in these strategic waters has taken on significance far beyond a routine annual exercise. It has become an arena where the battle of narratives, the clash of wills, and the war of calculations carry as much weight as physical combat. The official objectives of the drill have ...
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Iran Navy Commander Criticizes Extra-Regional Fleets Operating in West Asia
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Iran Navy Commander Criticizes Extra-Regional Fleets Operating in West Asia

Wednesday 18 February 2026 ،
Navy, warned that the presence of extra-regional military fleets in West Asia is “unjustified” and emphasized Iran’s readiness to confront any foreign military show of force. Speaking before departing for India, he highlighted decades of external threats and foreign naval activity ...
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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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Strait of Hormuz Transit Requires Iran’s Approval
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Strait of Hormuz Transit Requires Iran’s Approval

Tuesday 5 May 2026 ،
Navy fired missiles and drones as a warning to US warships that approached the strait in an apparent challenge to Iran's authority. The Navy stated that it was forced to take this action after the American vessels ignored previous warnings not to approach the strategic waterway.
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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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Trump’s War Unleashed Iran’s Sleeping Lion
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Trump’s War Unleashed Iran’s Sleeping Lion

Saturday 9 May 2026 ،
Navy's commander Alireza Tangsiri two weeks before start of war in a naval exercise had expressed the force's readiness to close the key waterway if the need arised. Anyway, it seems that the entire Israeli-American war, called Ramadan War in Iran, has now become centered on the Strait of Ho ...
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Army Submarines Track and Intercept Vessels in Strait of Hormuz
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Army Submarines Track and Intercept Vessels in Strait of Hormuz

Sunday 10 May 2026 ،
Navy, has discussed the role of small-sized submarines in the Strait of Hormuz ALWAGHT- Rear Admiral Shahram Irani, Commander of the Iranian Army Navy, has discussed the role of small-sized submarines in the Strait of Hormuz. According to Sunday remarks by Rear Admiral Shahram Irani, Commander of t ...
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Strait of Hormuz, the Field Determining the War of Wills
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Strait of Hormuz, the Field Determining the War of Wills

Tuesday 12 May 2026 ،
Navy.  This issue sparked brief, intermittent clashes in the Persian Gulf over the past few days, pushing the ceasefire to the brink of collapse. Small as they may have been, these confrontations carried outsized consequences and messages. Iran's resolve to confront US blockade: Tehran 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.