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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 and Pakistan at Cooperation Crossroads: Opportunities, Barriers, and Proposals to $10-Billion Trade Volume
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Iran and Pakistan at Cooperation Crossroads: Opportunities, Barriers, and Proposals to $10-Billion Trade Volume

Monday 31 August 2026
Washington's retaliation, Pakistan has failed to complete its portion of the pipeline and now faces the risk of hefty penalties. Third, physical infrastructure is woefully inadequate. The roads leading to the border, customs facilities, and rail networks are insufficient for the desired trade v ...
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Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?
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Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?

Monday 31 August 2026 ،
Washington's capability to protect them. The news agency adds that regional countries now seek security alternatives and particularly Saudi Arabia is moving towards new defense arrangements. The UAE: from Washington to Beijing The UAE stands as one of the most striking examples of this pivot f ...
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Araghchi Says Netanyahu Misled US Over War Against Iran
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Araghchi Says Netanyahu Misled US Over War Against Iran

Monday 31 August 2026 ،
Washington and manipulated US policy on Iran war ALWAGHT- Iran’s Araghchi says Netanyahu misled Washington and manipulated US policy on Iran war. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of deceiving Washington and influencing US policy to serv ...
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Iranian Forces Strike US Base in UAE Following Attack on Larak Island
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Iranian Forces Strike US Base in UAE Following Attack on Larak Island

Monday 31 August 2026 ،
Washington’s attack on Larak Island. The Iranian Army said Monday that it targeted US military positions at Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE with suicide drones, calling the strike retaliation for a US attack on Larak Island in southern Iran. The reported targets included positions housing US pe ...
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Big Blow to the Heart of US Spying System in West Asia
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Big Blow to the Heart of US Spying System in West Asia

Tuesday 1 September 2026 ،
Washington has failure in eight decades. Now, a new exclusive report from NBC News, corroborated by multiple informed sources on Capitol Hill and inside the US intelligence community, reveals that Iranian drones, leveraging advanced navigation tech and likely sharing intelligence with Russia, infli ...
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US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?
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US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?

Tuesday 1 September 2026 ،
Washington in 2016 to help the Kurds fight ISIS terrorist organization and unify the Peshmerga forces. It was extended for a four-year term in 2022. American forces previously stationed at Ain al-Assad base and in Anbar province of Iraq had already been relocated to Harir base in Erbil under agreem ...
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Renewed US-Iran Confrontation: Is the White House Prepared for War?
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Renewed US-Iran Confrontation: Is the White House Prepared for War?

Wednesday 2 September 2026 ،
Washington on the brink of yet another wider war? Iran's swift response Iran had repeatedly warned it would deliver a crushing response to any enemy aggression, and its armed forces lost no time in acting on that pledge. In retaliation for the US strike, they hit multiple American positions ac ...
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Iran at Eurasia’s Heart: How’s SCO Helping Tehran Cushion American Sanctions?
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Iran at Eurasia’s Heart: How’s SCO Helping Tehran Cushion American Sanctions?

Wednesday 2 September 2026 ،
Washington has announced plans to impose fresh secondary sanctions on financial networks tied to Iran, and is even targeting banks and financial institutions that do business with the Islamic Republic. In this climate, Iran’s membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has taken ...
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US Attack on Sirik Wedding Marks “Moral Decline,” Iran Says
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US Attack on Sirik Wedding Marks “Moral Decline,” Iran Says

Wednesday 2 September 2026 ،
Washington’s “moral decline.” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei condemned the US strike on a wedding ceremony in southern Iran’s Sirik on Tuesday night, saying the attack killed and wounded around 70 people, including women and children. In a post on X, he a ...
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Turkey-Israel Face-off in Eastern Mediterranean
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Turkey-Israel Face-off in Eastern Mediterranean

Friday 4 September 2026 ،
Washington's backing, steadily morphed into security and military coordination, and now shows clear signs of crystallizing into a coherent military alignment in the eastern Mediterranean. It is little wonder, then, that Ankara views such military convergence as a direct threat to its national s ...

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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.