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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 the New US Economic Campaign against Iran a Failure Story?
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Why’s the New US Economic Campaign against Iran a Failure Story?

Wednesday 26 August 2026
Trump administration has no operational plan to repair the immense damage that its catastrophic Iran war policy has inflicted on America’s national security interests and on the interests of our Persian Gulf partners.” Robert Malley, who served as the lead US negotiator under President ...
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Amid Transforming Muslim Political Power in the US, AIPAC is Declining
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Amid Transforming Muslim Political Power in the US, AIPAC is Declining

Thursday 27 August 2026 ،
Trump administration’s combative, right-wing agenda, both at home and abroad. Against this backdrop, one shift has seized analysts’ attention as a possible sign of gradual political reinvention: the rise of a new generation of candidates from previously marginalized communities, Arab an ...
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US-Venezuela Oil Deal: Trump Feigning Achievement to Cover up Losses
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US-Venezuela Oil Deal: Trump Feigning Achievement to Cover up Losses

Sunday 30 August 2026 ،
Trump since the beginning of his military campaign in Venezuela and abduction of its President Nicholas Maduro made it clear that the main aim was to seize control of the oil of this South American nation. Now after eight months, Washington claims it has realized its wish to dominate the Venezuelan ...
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US Play with Withdrawal Card: Retreat from Iraq under Banner of Strategy Shift
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US Play with Withdrawal Card: Retreat from Iraq under Banner of Strategy Shift

Sunday 6 September 2026 ،
Trump: US forces will leave Iraq when the American-led coalition’s mission ends on September 30, and after that, American companies will come in.  Baghdad officials insist every US service member must be out by the deadline. Yet ambiguous clauses in the bilateral deal have fueled fresh d ...
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Atlantic Gap in the Final Stage
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Atlantic Gap in the Final Stage

Sunday 20 September 2026 ،
Trump's announcement of progress toward establishing a permanent US military base in Poland. Iran war, an accelerator of disputes But one accelerant of the trans-Atlantic rupture is, in the current moment, the war with Iran. Washington started its aggression against Iran without consulting it ...
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Top Security Official: US Must Meet Seven Conditions to End Conflict with Iran
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Top Security Official: US Must Meet Seven Conditions to End Conflict with Iran

Sunday 20 September 2026 ،
Trump. Among the conditions Rezaei cited were an end to the conflict on all fronts, the release of Iranian frozen funds and the lifting of the naval blockade. He said Washington would benefit from accepting Tehran’s terms. Rezaei said Iran is pursuing a new strategy aimed at bringing the con ...
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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 ،
Trump is mulling ending the security and military support to Iraqi Kurdistan's Peshmerga forces, and if implemented, the plan would mean that the US forces will move out of Kurdistan region by end September. The issue has drawn concerns about the future of security in the autonomous region. The ...
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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 ،
Trump is backing him. Referring to effective compliance of Iraqi government with the US embargo on Iranian aviation industry, he said that Iraqi people have stood against some of the government's actions and condemned them. Now it remains to see where reopening of Najaf Airport to Iranian fligh ...
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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 ،
Trump still insists on what he calls military gains in the conflict and even threatens with renewed strikes to finish the job, the publication of the new round of documents about Pentagon's cover-up on the number of casualties in the Iranian missile strikes on the American bases in the Persian G ...
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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 ،
Trump administration has branded Operation Economic Outcast, a campaign to throttle oil sales, seal off financial channels, and force Iran's trading partners to cut ties with Tehran. The US has repeatedly tightened sanctions over the past decades, imposing significant costs on Iran's economy ...

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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.