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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 granted passage to 33 ships through Hormuz Strait
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Iran granted passage to 33 ships through Hormuz Strait

Sunday 24 May 2026
Navy announced that 33 vessels, including tankers and container ships, transited the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours ALWAGHT- The IRGC Navy announced that 33 vessels, including tankers and container ships, transited the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours. On Sunday, the IRGC Navy's Pub ...
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Why’s Iran Knocking out US Military’s Operational Network Rather than Naval Assets?
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Why’s Iran Knocking out US Military’s Operational Network Rather than Naval Assets?

Friday 17 July 2026 ،
Navy command in Bahrain, and the early-warning systems in Oman shows that the core aim is to disrupt the whole of the US operation cycle across the region. Another important issue is these military infrastructures being extremely hard to replace. Just contrary to general belief, fast replacement of ...
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IRGC Source Says All Ship Traffic Suspended in Strait of Hormuz
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IRGC Source Says All Ship Traffic Suspended in Strait of Hormuz

Sunday 19 July 2026 ،
Navy, all shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has been suspended. An informed source in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed to vessel traffic until what it described as hostile actions by the United States come to an end. The source said ...
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Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?
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Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?

Sunday 2 August 2026 ،
Navy since World War II. Given that failed track record, skepticism is only deepening over whether the new coalition Saudi Arabia is now trying to piece together will fare any better. Jafar Ghanad-Bashi, a West Asia analyst, told Alwaght in an interview that the failed US experiment offers a sober ...
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Iran Maintains Control of Hormuz Amid US Claims
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Iran Maintains Control of Hormuz Amid US Claims

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
Navy commander Rear Admiral Ali Ozmaei both emphasized that no vessel can safely transit without Iranian oversight. Shipping data, however, presents a more complicated picture. Only a small number of vessels have crossed the strait in recent days compared with pre-war levels, with many using routes ...
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Johnson Reveals 30 Suicide Attempts Aboard USS Lincoln in Exclusive Report
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Johnson Reveals 30 Suicide Attempts Aboard USS Lincoln in Exclusive Report

Tuesday 18 August 2026 ،
Navy's fast combat support ships and claimed that Iranian strikes on warehouses in Bahrain and Oman used to resupply US forces had compounded logistical difficulties. On the economic front, Johnson described the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as the beginning of an economic tsunami, warning tha ...
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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 ،
vessels in the Mediterranean and communicated their maritime routes to them. In response, the Israeli navy raised its alert level and braced for any potential developments at sea. Konstantinos Filis, a professor at the American College of Greece and director of the Institute of Global Affairs, said ...
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Iran Plans to Establish New Maritime Restriction Zone Beyond Strait of Hormuz, SNSC Chief Says
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Iran Plans to Establish New Maritime Restriction Zone Beyond Strait of Hormuz, SNSC Chief Says

Monday 7 September 2026 ،
Navy vessel, describing the test as a warning about the vulnerability of the American naval blockade. He further said Iranian attacks on US positions had forced Washington to abandon plans for a prolonged war and warned that Tehran retains the right to retaliate against attacks on its territory. Re ...
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US Subsurface Eye in Iran’s Hands: Washington Surprised Deep in Hormuz
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US Subsurface Eye in Iran’s Hands: Washington Surprised Deep in Hormuz

Thursday 10 September 2026 ،
Navy, and getting information about its capabilities and limits is valuable to Iran and other rival countries. The source even raised the issue that Iran's international partners like Russia and China are likely to examine the submarine system. Is is specially important to the US since the Amer ...
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Fifth Fleet: From Safe Base to Story of Loss
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Fifth Fleet: From Safe Base to Story of Loss

Tuesday 15 September 2026 ،
Navy Hung Cao admitted that the Iranian attacks have caused major damage to the US's naval facilities in Bahrain, the home to the Fifth Fleet.  The US official’s remarks amount to a rare acknowledgment at such a senior level of the damage inflicted on the headquarters of the US Navy& ...

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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.