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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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Why’s Iran No Longer Accepting Afghan Immigrants?
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Why’s Iran No Longer Accepting Afghan Immigrants?

Wednesday 16 July 2025
Soviet Red Army and the Afghan mujahideen over 50 years ago. The wave of Afghans entering Iran increased in the early 1980s after the Islamic Revolution and then the war Saddam of Iraq waged against neighboring Iran. However, over the part few months and amid the security developments in Iran follo ...
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What’s UAE Looking for in Central Asia?
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What’s UAE Looking for in Central Asia?

Wednesday 30 July 2025 ،
Soviet Union. Ankara has increased its presence in Central Asia through support programs for Turkic-speaking peoples, the creation of the Turkic Cooperation Organization and multi-billion dollar construction investments. However, for some Turkic-speaking countries, such as Turkmenistan and Kazakhsta ...
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Iran Report Reveals NATO’s Intelligence Role in 12-day War
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Iran Report Reveals NATO’s Intelligence Role in 12-day War

Tuesday 5 August 2025 ،
Soviet Union. In contrast, what we see today in the face of Iran is the synergy of Western intelligence agencies with the Israeli regime, the US, Britain, France, Germany, and even some Persian Gulf Arab monarchies, which is very similar to NATO in terms of structure, function, and goals. Organizat ...
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What Are Geopolitical Impacts of US-brokered Azerbaijan-Armenia Corridor Deal?
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What Are Geopolitical Impacts of US-brokered Azerbaijan-Armenia Corridor Deal?

Monday 11 August 2025 ،
Soviet Union and was occupied by the Armenian army at that time, but in 2023, Azerbaijan managed to reclaim it. In early 2025, Yerevan and Baku reached an agreement on the text of the peace agreement, but one major sticking point remained: Armenia’s concern over Azerbaijan’s request to ...
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New Color Revolution? West’s Hands in Georgia Protests
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New Color Revolution? West’s Hands in Georgia Protests

Tuesday 23 September 2025 ،
Soviet republics. The response from European countries further indicates that Western actors are attempting to steer this anti-government wave. In recent weeks, the European Union and several European nations have directly supported the protesters. The foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Pola ...
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Why’s Donetsk Significant for Putin?
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Why’s Donetsk Significant for Putin?

Monday 20 October 2025 ،
Soviet era. Donbas played a major role in Soviet socialist mythology, explains Alexander J. Motyl, a political science professor at Rutgers University, Newark, known as the home of the ideal archetype of the Soviet Man. Matthew Schmidt, an associate professor of political science at the University ...
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Arab League Chief Reveals Secret US Deal Protecting Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal
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Arab League Chief Reveals Secret US Deal Protecting Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal

Monday 27 October 2025 ،
Soviet Union’s collapse. He added that Egypt has refrained from signing treaties on chemical or biological weapons, arguing that nuclear weapons bring more risks than benefits. He reaffirmed Cairo’s call for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, suggesting that international ...
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Trump Nuclear Tests Order Revives a Dark Era, Spurs New Race
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Trump Nuclear Tests Order Revives a Dark Era, Spurs New Race

Sunday 2 November 2025 ،
Soviet union, the illusion rose that the era of nuclear competitions was declining and the treaties banning the nuclear tests made the cornerstone to a more secure order. But today the dust of history is winding down. Trump's shocking decision to put the US on high alert to conduct nuclear test ...
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Trump’s Game with C5+1 Card
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Trump’s Game with C5+1 Card

Monday 10 November 2025 ،
Soviet republics. Those concerns intensified in 2023, when then US President Joe Biden met with Central Asian leaders for the first time on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Moscow and Beijing saw the move as a shift in Washington’s foreign policy and an attempt to put pressure on the ...
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Israel’s Creeping Influence in Central Asia a Threat to Iran’s Security Interests
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Israel’s Creeping Influence in Central Asia a Threat to Iran’s Security Interests

Wednesday 12 November 2025 ،
Soviet Union, Central Asia has become a scene for competition of foreign actors. In recent years, with the increase in the geopolitical rivalry among regional and international powers over a broader role in the global trade, energy, and transit, the capacities of former soviet republic have gained s ...

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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.