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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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Map of  Latest Battlefield Developments in Syria and Iraq on

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Italy Laying the Rails for the EU to Rebuild its Syria Policy
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Italy Laying the Rails for the EU to Rebuild its Syria Policy

Monday 29 July 2024
South China Sea in recent years, the Europeans are trying to fill this security vacuum.  Earlier, Britain and France geared for replacing the US by deploying their aircraft carriers and warships to the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean. To not fall behind, Italy is seeking t ...
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Maduro’s Re-election Maintains anti-American Atmosphere in Venezuela
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Maduro’s Re-election Maintains anti-American Atmosphere in Venezuela

Tuesday 30 July 2024 ،
South Africa and Russia announced that the voting process in the presidential elections was free, fair and transparent.  Earlier, Jorge Rodríguez, the head of Venezuelan National Assembly and the candidate of the United Socialist Party and the Great Patriotic Pole had earlier warned aga ...
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Generals Explore Possibility of Iran-Russia Joint Maritime Patrols
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Generals Explore Possibility of Iran-Russia Joint Maritime Patrols

Sunday 15 September 2024 ،
South Corridor. The 11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum took place at the Beijing International Convention Center from September 12 to 14, under the theme Promoting Peace for a Shared Future. Participants addressed topics such as the role of Global South countries in international security, enhancing glo ...
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Iraq’s Grand Faw Port Project and Iranian Opportunities
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Iraq’s Grand Faw Port Project and Iranian Opportunities

Wednesday 18 September 2024 ،
South and East-West transit corridors.  In the meantime, Iraq hopes to link Iran to its south-north corridor and Faw port by completing the Basra-Shalamcheh railway, which is about 30 kilometers long. That's why Iraqis see Iran's East-West corridor as a complement to the FAW-Ceyhan cor ...
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Introducing BRICS Pay: Kazan Summit Signals a Shifting World Order
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Introducing BRICS Pay: Kazan Summit Signals a Shifting World Order

Wednesday 23 October 2024 ،
South Africa, and uses blockchain technology and smart contracts to enable transparent and decentralized decision-making. This platform can support digital currencies or stablecoins linked to national currencies of member countries. This method allows BRICS Pay to reduce its reliance on traditional ...
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Mashhad Summit, Ideal Opportunity to Boost ECO Cooperation
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Mashhad Summit, Ideal Opportunity to Boost ECO Cooperation

Monday 2 December 2024 ،
South corridors, which can control the economic pulse of the region by developing its infrastructures. Using the capacity of rail corridors for ECO trade development was raised at the organization's meeting in Tashkent in February 2023 by Iran's late Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahia ...
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Iran and EAEU Partnership: Blurring the Trade, Energy, and Transit Borders
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Iran and EAEU Partnership: Blurring the Trade, Energy, and Transit Borders

Sunday 2 February 2025 ،
South Corridor and the East-West Corridor can increase Iran's transit revenues, and by developing infrastructure and increasing the transportation of goods, Iran can become a trade hub in the region. Having in mind that Iran and the Eurasian countries are the only regions located along the Nort ...
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Iran-China-Russia: The Emerging Pole of Naval Power
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Iran-China-Russia: The Emerging Pole of Naval Power

Sunday 16 March 2025 ،
South Africa, Oman, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Qatar, Iraq, the UAE and Sri Lanka are participating as observers. According to a statement released by the Chinese Ministry of Defense, the exercises will include training courses including naval target attack, VBSS (Visit, Board, Search and Seizure), dama ...
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Aspects of Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan Agreement
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Aspects of Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan Agreement

Sunday 6 April 2025 ،
South, Central Asia has been the focus of major economic and trade projects of economic powers, including China, Russia, India, and Europe in recent years. In this context, the role of Central Asia in advancing the grand Road and Belt Initiative (RBI) of China project is highly significant. However, ...
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Turkic World Project Falling, Dealing Blow to Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism
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Turkic World Project Falling, Dealing Blow to Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism

Monday 14 April 2025 ،
South Caucasus and Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. At the 9th summit of these countries held in Nakhchivan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan signed the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States on ...

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

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