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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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Behind Closed School Doors: Azerbaijan Govt. Secularism vs. Islamic Identity of Society
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Behind Closed School Doors: Azerbaijan Govt. Secularism vs. Islamic Identity of Society

Sunday 18 October 2026
Azerbaijani government is pushing forward with secular policies in a country with over 70 percent of population Muslim Shiites. Alwaght- Students in Azerbaijan headed to their classrooms last week to shocking news. The government announced a ban on girls entering schools wearing the Islamic headscar ...
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Minab School Tragedy: Iranian Director Becomes Iran’s Voice from Busan Film Festival
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Minab School Tragedy: Iranian Director Becomes Iran’s Voice from Busan Film Festival

Monday 19 October 2026 ،
US and Israeli regime against Iran and its consequences on the children. Alwaght- Some voices cannot be silenced by bombardment; voice of a mother who lost her child, voice of kids who do not come back from school, and the voice of an Iranian artist who has stood by his country in the hard days. Th ...
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IRGC Warns Further Attacks on Iran Could Spark Worldwide Energy Crisis
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IRGC Warns Further Attacks on Iran Could Spark Worldwide Energy Crisis

Monday 19 October 2026 ،
US military action against Iran would trigger a much stronger response and could cause a severe global energy crisis. He claimed Washington lacked the military capacity to launch another successful conflict, adding that US forces were exhausted and that American bases across the region had been larg ...
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Completion of Iraq Cabinet and Redrawing Balance of Power
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Completion of Iraq Cabinet and Redrawing Balance of Power

Tuesday 20 October 2026 ،
US power to sway Iraqi government’s decisions. Alwaght- After nearly five months of debate among political parties, the Iraqi parliament finally approved remnants of the ministers of the government of Ali al-Zaidi on Thursday. The lawmakers granted confidence to 11 new ministers and created a number ...
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Iran’s Diplomacy amid War: Muslim World and Palestinian Question
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Iran’s Diplomacy amid War: Muslim World and Palestinian Question

Tuesday 20 October 2026 ،
US and Israeli regime. Yet, even while tending to its own security concerns, Tehran is using its presence in Islamic multilateral bodies to keep Muslim countries focused on Palestine, an approach that signals the Islamic Republic does not see the Palestinian cause as secondary or deferrable in regio ...
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Saudi Arabia vs. Ansarullah: The Neutralized Saudi Conventional Power
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Saudi Arabia vs. Ansarullah: The Neutralized Saudi Conventional Power

Sunday 25 October 2026 ،
US and Europe, modern tanks, air defenses, and multibillon military budget, the Arab kingdom has the superiority when it comes to conventional military equipment, but years of Yemen war have shown that air superiority and expensive arms necessarily do not mean certainly realizing political and milit ...
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From Mecca Pact to Tehran: Iran Hosting New Regional Security Equations
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From Mecca Pact to Tehran: Iran Hosting New Regional Security Equations

Tuesday 27 October 2026 ،
US and Israeli regime's aggression against Iran, fears of a widening conflict, and disruptions to energy and shipping security. Many experts see the visit as an opportunity to cement a strategic principle: that West Asia's security cannot be shaped solely by decisions made in Washington, Te ...
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Tehran Summit Changes Regional View of American Role: Expert
Interview

Tehran Summit Changes Regional View of American Role: Expert

Thursday 29 October 2026 ،
US and Iran have escalated, Tehran hosted a new round of diplomatic meetings in recent days. On Monday, senior security officials of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan held a meeting with Iran's General Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary-general of Supreme National Security Council, in Tehran, discuss ...
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Political and Social Stalemate Key Feature of Post-election Israel: Expert
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Political and Social Stalemate Key Feature of Post-election Israel: Expert

Monday 2 November 2026 ،
US intervenes and persuades the parties to form a coalition cabinet could the situation change. The most likely scenario under current conditions is a political deadlock and a fresh election. Under Israel's political mechanism, the president gives the parties three months to form a majority coa ...
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Israel Vote Shattered Netanyahu’s Victory Discourse, Transformed Political Polarity: Expert
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Israel Vote Shattered Netanyahu’s Victory Discourse, Transformed Political Polarity: Expert

Tuesday 3 November 2026 ،
US, there was extensive propaganda about Israeli superiority and championizing around Netanyahu, yet this narrative failed to deliver. Netanyahu not only failed to hold on to his previous Knesset seats, but also his coalition's seats dropped from 67 to 53. The regional affairs expert said Netan ...

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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.