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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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Amid Re-emerging Gaps with US, What Are European Options against Trump?
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Amid Re-emerging Gaps with US, What Are European Options against Trump?

Thursday 20 February 2025
Saudi Arabia, where he discussed ending the Ukraine war. He described the meeting fruitful. The Riyadh meeting came after American president last week in a phone conversation with Russian leader agreed to advance talks on Ukraine peace without involvement of the European allies of Washington. Trump ...
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Iran and Qatar: A Model of Friendly Relations
Analysis

Iran and Qatar: A Model of Friendly Relations

Saturday 22 February 2025 ،
Saudi crisis with Qatar, which led to a blockade on the tiny Arab emirate, became a turning point in a upscale of political, security and economic relations of Tehran and Doha.  In the 2017 (P) GCC crisis, Iran came to the aid of Qatar against the blockading countries and, by providing basic n ...
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What’s behind Lavrov’s Tehran Visit?
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What’s behind Lavrov’s Tehran Visit?

Tuesday 25 February 2025 ،
Saudi Arabia. Although Iran and Russia's positions on the situation in the Ukraine war and its solution have not been completely aligned from the beginning, and Tehran, while declaring neutrality in the conflict, has considered negotiation without Western interference as the best solution to fi ...
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Iran and Sudan: Emerging Partnership in Horn of Africa
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Iran and Sudan: Emerging Partnership in Horn of Africa

Wednesday 26 February 2025 ،
Saudi Arabia and rivals backed by the UAE.  Sudan had earlier even participated in the Saudi-led military coalition against Yemen, but with the changing domestic and regional conditions and as it understands global realities and gets out of the yoke of Arab regimes, it is seeking to improve re ...
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How’s Ukraine Becoming Pawn for Trump’s Big Game?
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How’s Ukraine Becoming Pawn for Trump’s Big Game?

Sunday 2 March 2025 ،
Saudi Arabia and the agreement to de-escalate made them fully aware of the risk of facing a new moment of Yalta, where a few months before the end of the WWII, the leaders of the US, the Soviet Union, and Britain in the Crimean Peninsula drew up a new security framework for Europe and the world by d ...
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US-Europe Division over Ukraine Allowing Russian Battleground Progress
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US-Europe Division over Ukraine Allowing Russian Battleground Progress

Monday 10 March 2025 ،
Saudi Arabia on February 18. The European allies have maintained their aggressive approach to Moscow just contrary to the US that reviewed its policy toward Russia after Trump took the office. In a meeting last week, they reiterated continuing their all-out military, diplomatic, and financial suppo ...
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Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with Iran
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Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with Iran

Tuesday 1 April 2025 ،
Saudi Arabia. 2. Undermining the Axis of Resistance in Iraq and the region  Since the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the political and security balance system in the West Asian region has undergone major developments, such as the Islamic Awakening of 2011 and Hamas’s Operation Al- ...
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What’s behind Netanyahu’s Diplomatic Failure in the US
Analysis

What’s behind Netanyahu’s Diplomatic Failure in the US

Saturday 12 April 2025 ،
Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks, and Netanyahu does not have a strong position inside the occupied territories and does not want to bet on the wrong horse.  Concerning the negotiations with Iran, certainly Trump's views to the demands of Israel and Netanyahu personally cannot be without a ...
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What’s behind Al-Jolani’s UAE Visit?
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What’s behind Al-Jolani’s UAE Visit?

Tuesday 15 April 2025 ،
Saudi Arabia a few weeks ago, this time to try his luck in Abu Dhabi. Upon arrival at Al Bateen Airport, he was received by Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's FM, and then went to Al Shati Palace for talks with Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's ruler, to show that the Emiratis al ...
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Riyadh Wants Stronger Ties with Tehran after Defense Minister Visit: Expert
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Riyadh Wants Stronger Ties with Tehran after Defense Minister Visit: Expert

Sunday 20 April 2025 ،
Saudi Arabia is concluding that Iran is a key actor in the region and improved ties with Tehran are beneficial to Riyadh. Alwaght- In recent days, visit to Tehran of Saudi Defense Minister Khaled bin Salman has grabbed broad media attention. The visit, seen as a significant development in the Irania ...

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Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

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