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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 Rules Out Resuming Pre-War Diplomatic Track with US
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Iran Rules Out Resuming Pre-War Diplomatic Track with US

Thursday 24 September 2026
of Hormuz. Major General Mohsen Rezaei said Iran’s diplomatic approach has entered a new phase and will not return to its pre-war framework. He called on the United States to take concrete action and meet Tehran’s stated conditions, warning that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed ...
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Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation
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Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation

Saturday 26 September 2026 ،
Secretary Pete Hegseth and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, the Pentagon chief said the US, Iraq and coalition partners had achieved remarkable successes in defeating ISIS, and that Iraqi security forces, including the Peshmerga and other security forces of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, would now ...
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Iran Says Trump Is Trapped in A “Quagmire” And Struggling to Chart a Course
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Iran Says Trump Is Trapped in A “Quagmire” And Struggling to Chart a Course

Wednesday 30 September 2026 ،
of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Tehran has laid out its terms to Washington ALWAGHT- Major General Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Tehran has laid out its terms to Washington, but US President Donald Trump has yet to make a decision ...
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert

Saturday 3 October 2026 ،
of Iraq destruction Referring to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 that led to collapse of Saddam Hussein, Mr Afghahi said that George W. Bush's war on Iraq was part of a push to gain control over Iraq and to change the regional geography to pave the way for long-term presence and also in f ...
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Iran Security Chief: US To Suffer Economic Defeat Just as It Did Militarily
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Iran Security Chief: US To Suffer Economic Defeat Just as It Did Militarily

Tuesday 6 October 2026 ،
Secretary Scott Bessent of attempting to portray the campaign as a success. Rezaei cited criticism from Bloomberg of Bessent’s efforts to minimize the blockade’s effects on the US economy, particularly rising fuel prices. He dismissed Bessent’s predictions as lacking credibility a ...
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Velayati Condemns Rubio’s Remarks, Says US Has No Moral Authority to Lecture Others
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Velayati Condemns Rubio’s Remarks, Says US Has No Moral Authority to Lecture Others

Saturday 10 October 2026 ،
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ALWAGHT- Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran’s Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, has criticized US Secretary of State Marco Rubio over remarks contrasting ancient Greek resistance with Iran’s approach to martyrdom. In a post on X on Saturd ...
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Rezaei Warns Washington of Another Historic Defeat, Citing Iran’s Victory over Rome
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Rezaei Warns Washington of Another Historic Defeat, Citing Iran’s Victory over Rome

Saturday 10 October 2026 ،
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech in Athens, where Rubio invoked Western civilization while discussing Iran. Rezaei argued that those who bring history into the debate must also be prepared for past events to be repeated.
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Israel’s Fury at Nobel Choice: Pillay and Gaza Genocide Case
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Israel’s Fury at Nobel Choice: Pillay and Gaza Genocide Case

Saturday 10 October 2026 ،
Secretary of State Rubio for their resolute decision to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court. From fighting apartheid to distinguished place in international law: Who is Navi Pillay? Pillay, a South African jurist born in 1941, grew up in Durban in a family of Indian Tamil descent. ...
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White House War Cover-up Suggests Trump is Empty-handed
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White House War Cover-up Suggests Trump is Empty-handed

Monday 12 October 2026 ،
Secretary Pete Hegseth rejected that report. But the temporary removal of several killed service members’ names from the official system, and their later restoration, has once again thrust the question of the Pentagon’s statistical transparency into the spotlight. The point is not simpl ...
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Bessent’s Prediction Gone Wrong: Economic Resilience in Iran, Collapse Delusion in the US
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Bessent’s Prediction Gone Wrong: Economic Resilience in Iran, Collapse Delusion in the US

Wednesday 14 October 2026 ،
Secretary Scott Bessent claimed that Iran would have nothing left to bargain with in another two weeks and was shipping its last oil cargoes to China, its main oil buyer. He made that prediction on September 27, now, on October 13, the stated deadline has come and gone, but the predicted demise of I ...

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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.