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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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Qalibaf Refuses IAEA Entry to Bombed Nuclear Sites
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Qalibaf Refuses IAEA Entry to Bombed Nuclear Sites

Friday 3 July 2026
US-Israeli strikes, saying Iranian law prohibits inspections at those locations. He said IAEA access is currently restricted to the Bushehr nuclear power plant and the Tehran Research Reactor under decisions made by Iran's Supreme National Security Council. Qalibaf said the security council det ...
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Hamas Gaza Govt. Dissolution: Aims and Effects
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Hamas Gaza Govt. Dissolution: Aims and Effects

Thursday 16 July 2026 ،
Hamas is handing over government in favor of national unity and to take away one of Israeli excuses. Alwaght- Months after the ostensible end of the war in Gaza, the coastal enclave's reality keeps to be a far cry from the post-war revival promised under the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement and reconst ...
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From Red Sea to Black Sea: Geopolitical Impacts of Ukraine’s Attack on Iran’s Ship in Caspian Sea
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From Red Sea to Black Sea: Geopolitical Impacts of Ukraine’s Attack on Iran’s Ship in Caspian Sea

Monday 27 July 2026 ،
US game. Alwaght- The attack on an Iranian commercial cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea on Saturday could mark the opening of a new chapter in the broadening conflict between Iran and the US-Israeli coalition and the emerging coalitions forming around it. Just as the strategic Bab-el-Mandeb Strait wa ...
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Eastern View of SCO to Aggression against Iran
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Eastern View of SCO to Aggression against Iran

Tuesday 28 July 2026 ،
US aggression against Iran that these days has started attacks on infrastructure has become one of the key tests for the international security order, especially for regional organizations, to an extent that reaction of the powers to this war has more than ever revealed the gap between unilateralism ...
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Iran Warns It Will Use All Means Necessary to Counter US Aggression
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Iran Warns It Will Use All Means Necessary to Counter US Aggression

Sunday 2 August 2026 ،
US naval blockade and military actions as unlawful acts contrary to the UN Charter. Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused the United States of violating the UN Charter through what it described as a naval blockade and attacks on military, civilian and infrastructure targets. It said the UN Security ...
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From Oil to Development Road: Obstacles Ahead of Major Iraq-Turkey Agreements
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From Oil to Development Road: Obstacles Ahead of Major Iraq-Turkey Agreements

Tuesday 4 August 2026 ،
US and European-supoorted India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor - Iran's plans to transform its ports to transit hubs - rivalry of Kuwait's Mubarak Port with Iraq's Grand Faw Port These rivalries could overshadow the existing expectations for attracting investment and diminish th ...
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Restructuring Iran’s Military Command: Show of Stability amid War
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Restructuring Iran’s Military Command: Show of Stability amid War

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
US. Al Jazeera, citing Sina Azodi, a professor at George Washington University, reported that the moves signal a consolidation of Iran’s military power after the war, and send a clear message to Washington, telling it that contrary to Trump’s claims, Iran is enjoying a measure of interna ...
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
US and its allies. Alwaght- As talks continue on the future of the Strait of Hormuz and the mediators are pushing to defuse tensions between the US and Iran, regional security equations enter a new stage. From Tehran's conditions to normalize the transit status in the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab ...
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
US is the primary arms supplier to Iraq, accounting for 41 percent of its military imports. Over the past five years, South Korea has also ranked as Iraq's third-largest weapons provider, and between 2017 and 2021, Iraq was the world's 11th-largest arms importer. But various estimates sugge ...
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Israel’s Quietly Making West Bank Another Gaza Using Army of Settlers
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Israel’s Quietly Making West Bank Another Gaza Using Army of Settlers

Sunday 16 August 2026 ،
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and his hardline colleague Smotrich have repeatedly and publicly championed settlement growth and even called for accelerating the annexation of parts of the West Bank. In a related development, Israeli media revealed Friday that Defense Minister Israel Ka ...

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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.