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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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Boiled Frog: How’s US Consuming Syria’s Al-Jolani in a Gradual Trust-making Process?
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Boiled Frog: How’s US Consuming Syria’s Al-Jolani in a Gradual Trust-making Process?

Monday 26 May 2025
Trump made the highly controversial decision to lift long-standing US sanctions against Syria. A look on the recent American positions reveals that Washington is pursuing a gradual and controlled strategy known as the boiled frog towards the al-Jolani’s government. What's boiled frog str ...
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White House Orders US Agencies to Halt New Sanctions on Iran
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White House Orders US Agencies to Halt New Sanctions on Iran

Monday 2 June 2025 ،
Trump’s first presidency and carried through Biden’s term. Despite the campaign's aggressive sanctions and threats—including calls for Iran to halt uranium enrichment—Tehran has remained firm, insisting on its rights under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and de ...
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Secret Military Plan under Aid Cover
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Secret Military Plan under Aid Cover

Tuesday 10 June 2025 ،
Trump took office, as part of a campaign to align US foreign policy with his slogan America First, disbanding the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), eliminating nearly 80 percent of its programs and putting its employees at risk of losing their jobs. This shows the importanc ...
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Changing Air Power Balance: Will Iran Buy Chinese Fighter Jets?
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Changing Air Power Balance: Will Iran Buy Chinese Fighter Jets?

Saturday 28 June 2025 ،
Trump. The US decisions, such as withdrawing from international agreements, tightening sanctions on the rivals and trying to isolate various countries, have caused instability at the global level. In such an environment, the SCO, as a multilateral group focusing on security and economic cooperation ...
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With Masive Funeral Turnout, Iranians Have Just Upgraded the Country’s Deterrence Power
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With Masive Funeral Turnout, Iranians Have Just Upgraded the Country’s Deterrence Power

Saturday 28 June 2025 ،
Trump: Iran does not surrender  Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, one of the main aims of the US has been to force Iran to yield to the economic, military, and diplomatic pressures. These pressures reached their peak under Donald Trump who amid the Israeli aggression on Iran called for unc ...
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Parliament Speaker Criticizes Trump’s Rhetoric Against Iran
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Parliament Speaker Criticizes Trump’s Rhetoric Against Iran

Sunday 29 June 2025 ،
Trump, for spreading “paradoxical messages and fake news” as part of psychological warfare against Iran. He described Trump’s contradictory and disrespectful rhetoric as a failed attempt to sow fear and disrupt Iranian decision-making, asserting that Iranians remain steadfast in de ...
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Iraq, the Strategic Middle Ground During Israeli-Iranian War
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Iraq, the Strategic Middle Ground During Israeli-Iranian War

Thursday 3 July 2025 ،
Israel violated Iraqi airspace during its war on Iraq. Baghdad needs to come clean with Tel Aviv on these violations, or suffer consequences. Alwaght- In the geopolitical conflicts of West Asia and North Africa, Iraq has always been one of the focal points of developments and the regional and intern ...
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After US-Israeli War on Iran, BRICS Grows More Determined towards Multilateralism
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After US-Israeli War on Iran, BRICS Grows More Determined towards Multilateralism

Wednesday 9 July 2025 ،
Trump tried to force the BRICS powers to back down from their independence-seeking approach to financial structures by threatening to impose tariffs, but these threats have lost their effectiveness and even Washington’s allies are unwilling to yield to the pressure. The Brazil summit was ther ...
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Israel Deadlock in Yemen: Why’s Sana’a Unbeatable?
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Israel Deadlock in Yemen: Why’s Sana’a Unbeatable?

Saturday 12 July 2025 ،
Trump announced halt of the attacks on Yemen. The US had started its air campaign against Yemen on March 15, but all of a sudden, Oman as the eastern neighbor of Yemen announced that it mediated to end the conflict between the US and Ansarallah Movement of Yemen. But the end of the seven-week US wa ...
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Caught Between Iran and US, What Path Will Saudi Arabia Pick?
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Caught Between Iran and US, What Path Will Saudi Arabia Pick?

Friday 11 July 2025 ،
Trump is one of the pillars of the active foreign policy of Riyadh and on the other hand, the gradual improvement of relations with Tehran after the China-mediated 2023 rapprochement deal between Riyadh and Tehran promises a new era of peaceful regional coexistence. However, the increasing possibili ...

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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.