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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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Iran-Russia Strategic Pact: What Does it Mean for the Two Actors?
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Iran-Russia Strategic Pact: What Does it Mean for the Two Actors?

Sunday 19 January 2025
US, Tehran and Moscow have displayed their resolve to shore up their bilateral ties and coordinate their international and regional policies. One of the showcases of this growing unity of the two allies is the recurrent trade of visits of senior political officials of the two countries. Meanwhile, ...
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Iran and Pakistan: A New Chapter of  Security and Military Partnership
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Iran and Pakistan: A New Chapter of Security and Military Partnership

Wednesday 22 January 2025 ،
US-led camp for political and security drivers and Washington's pressure kept Islamabad from bolstering bilateral cooperation with Tehran, but in the past two years, relations between Pakistan and the US have gone chilly. Given the global geopolitical changes, the US is now leaning towards part ...
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Iran FM’s Afghanistan Visit Seeks Common Views on Region and Trade
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Iran FM’s Afghanistan Visit Seeks Common Views on Region and Trade

Sunday 26 January 2025 ،
US is also trying to destabilize the borders of Russia, Iran, and China at present, it specially counts on terrorist groups, especially their foothold gain in Afghanistan. Therefore, Iran and its neighbors through partnership with the Taliban are trying to prevent the US drawing on Afghan crisis to ...
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Rejuvenated Trump Dream: Building "Deal of the Century" on Gaza Ruins
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Rejuvenated Trump Dream: Building "Deal of the Century" on Gaza Ruins

Monday 27 January 2025 ،
US president Donald Trump on Sunday in controversial remarks said that he wanted to relocate the Palestinians from Gaza and that the neighboring countries should accept more migrants from this coastal enclave. Trump described this proposal as a strategy for effective evacuation of Gaza, to relocate ...
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Iran and Qatar: A Model of Friendly Relations
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Iran and Qatar: A Model of Friendly Relations

Saturday 22 February 2025 ،
US and Israeli regime's provocative plans to disrupt the neighborly relations between the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council member states and Iran, and the two countries have had good and diverse relations in the political, economic, and security spheres. These relations have reached a new leve ...
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From Damascus to Gaza: Turkish Neo-Ottomanism Vs. Axis of Resistance Discourse
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From Damascus to Gaza: Turkish Neo-Ottomanism Vs. Axis of Resistance Discourse

Sunday 2 March 2025 ،
US, Turkey toppled government of President Bashar al-Assad who was enemy of Israel and historic supporter of the Palestinians and is now making no move to end Israeli occupation of large part of southern Syria because in neo-Ottoman mentality, regional influence is meant to rebuild Turkey's domi ...
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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 ،
US role in the global security, China, Russia, and Iran with their joint naval exercises signal that a new weight is emerging in the transitioning security order in the face of the US. In this connection, on Tuesday, the three countries started Security Belt 2025 naval war games near Iran's Cha ...
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Erdogan’s Nightmare: What Can Arrest of Opposition Leader Bring to Turkey?
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Erdogan’s Nightmare: What Can Arrest of Opposition Leader Bring to Turkey?

Wednesday 26 March 2025 ،
US dollar, and eventually closed at 37.665 lira, down 2.6 percent. If the protests continue, it could fall lower, posing a serious challenge to Turkey's struggling economy. At the same time, the Turkish stock index fell 9 percent, the biggest drop in four years. The main index of the Istanbul S ...
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Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with Iran
Analysis

Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with Iran

Tuesday 1 April 2025 ،
US government reported Trump sending a letter to Iran and setting a two-month deadline for Tehran to start the negotiations. Amid the reactions to the content of the letter, Iranian ambassador to Iraq revealed that the American President demanded the dissolution of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Fo ...
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Aspects of Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan Agreement
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Aspects of Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan Agreement

Saturday 5 April 2025 ،
US also have strategic interests in this region, and increased foreign involvement could complicate regional decision-making. China is likely to seek to use the agreement to bolster RBI, also called New Silk Road, but Russia may be concerned about its declining influence in Central Asia and seek to ...

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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