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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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Bombing Civilian and Scientific Centers in Iran Echoes American-Israeli War Routine
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Bombing Civilian and Scientific Centers in Iran Echoes American-Israeli War Routine

Saturday 4 April 2026
Trump alleged that the attacks are meant to destroy Tehran's military power, but since the early hours of the aggression, the US forces proved they know no humanitarian red lines, and that destroying Iran and what Trump calls returning Iran to the Stone Age is their top priority.  A ruthle ...
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Strait of Hormuz: The Gordian Knot of Iran-US Talks
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Strait of Hormuz: The Gordian Knot of Iran-US Talks

Sunday 12 April 2026 ،
Trump’s son-in-law and advisory Jared Kushner and special envoy to Syria Steve Witkoff. The sheer size and caliber of both delegations underscore the gravity of the issues at hand. Ahead of the official negotiations, both Iranian and American envoys held separate meetings with Pakistani Prime ...
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Pakistan Seeks to Facilitate Dialogue Between Iran and the US, Awaits Response from Tehran
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Pakistan Seeks to Facilitate Dialogue Between Iran and the US, Awaits Response from Tehran

Wednesday 22 April 2026 ،
Trump announced an extension of the ceasefire with Iran, despite previously stating that he would not do so under any circumstances. He claimed that Pakistani Army chief Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had asked him to delay an attack on Iran until a proposal is presented by Tehran. De ...
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For the First Time, Iran Shifted War to American Borders
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For the First Time, Iran Shifted War to American Borders

Monday 27 April 2026 ،
Trump declared a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to ramp up pressure and force Iran to back down and reopen the waterway. But Tehran stood firm against the demand and the pressure campaign. Washington acted with extreme caution, despite some hostile moves, to avoid an escalation, while Iran issued ...
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Gaza Months after Ceasefire Deal: The Reality of Dream Trump Sold to the Palestinians and World
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Gaza Months after Ceasefire Deal: The Reality of Dream Trump Sold to the Palestinians and World

Sunday 3 May 2026 ،
Trump with the ceasefire deal and the Board of Peace initiative tried to present a beautiful image of the future of Gaza, the realities on the ground show that nearly seven months after truce, there is no correlation between that image and the current catastrophic situation in the Palestinian enclav ...
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Amid Mediators’ Visits to Tehran, Questions Rise about Terms of Any Iran-US Agreement
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Amid Mediators’ Visits to Tehran, Questions Rise about Terms of Any Iran-US Agreement

Sunday 24 May 2026 ،
Trump’s visit to China late last week, the new role of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s Parliament and head of the Islamabad negotiating team, as the point man on relations with Beijing, two back‑and‑forth trips by Pakistan’s interior minister to Iran, and the travel to ...
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Iran Must Keep the Blade of Hormuz Strait on Trump’s Head
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Iran Must Keep the Blade of Hormuz Strait on Trump’s Head

Thursday 28 May 2026 ،
Trump tore it up with a single stroke upon taking office in his first term in 2018. The other signatories also failed to fulfill their obligations toward Iran as outlined in the deal, leaving Iran stripped of all its rights and suffering heavy losses. In the middle of the talks, Trump bombed Iran&r ...
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Is Oman Facing a Repeat of the 2017 Qatar Crisis?
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Is Oman Facing a Repeat of the 2017 Qatar Crisis?

Monday 1 June 2026 ،
Trump now faces a different reality, one in which some regional players are uninterested to fully comply with the American demands. Within this context, any country moving out of the US orbit faces strong reaction of the White House. Against this backdrop, Oman has come under sharper scrutiny from ...
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Armenia Parliamentary Election: A Referendum to Choose between East and West
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Armenia Parliamentary Election: A Referendum to Choose between East and West

Thursday 4 June 2026 ،
Trump Corridor, part of a Washington’s strategy to connect Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan and other regional routes across the Caucasus. While Armenian leaders see this approach as simply diversifying their economic partners, Moscow views such projects as a direct tool to shrink Russia’s geopo ...
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From Persian Gulf to Lebanon: How Will War Stop?
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From Persian Gulf to Lebanon: How Will War Stop?

Friday 5 June 2026 ،
Trump himself said during the war that he was thinking about changing Iran’s borders, and he repeatedly spoke of destroying Iranian civilization. When our people see these facts and understand true American objectives, they gain double the morale and energy to fight back. On the other side, th ...

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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.