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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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Ghalibaf Dismisses US Assertion That Iran Lacks Control Over Strait of Hormuz
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Ghalibaf Dismisses US Assertion That Iran Lacks Control Over Strait of Hormuz

Monday 28 September 2026
Washington’s assertion that Tehran has no control over the Strait of Hormuz ALWAGHT- Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf rejected Washington’s assertion that Tehran has no control over the Strait of Hormuz, pointing to market prices as evidence to the contrary. In a post on X, ...
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Iran Signals Readiness to Launch Preemptive Strikes If Faced with Threats
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Iran Signals Readiness to Launch Preemptive Strikes If Faced with Threats

Wednesday 30 September 2026 ،
Washington could seek to change the situation through further aggression, although he said the US lacks a clear strategy. On Iran’s military doctrine, Akraminia said the armed forces have moved toward a preemptive approach following the war. He cited strikes against anti-Iran groups in Iraq&r ...
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Exit from Iraq: US Superpower Image Shattered with a Strategic Defeat
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Exit from Iraq: US Superpower Image Shattered with a Strategic Defeat

Friday 2 October 2026 ،
Washington. Official figures put American losses at 4,474 killed and roughly 33,000 wounded, while Trump pegged the cost at nearly $7 trillion.  A fresh Pew Research Center poll found about 75 percent of Americans backed ending it. Iraq, for its part, was left with years of insecurity, civil s ...
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Where have American Forces and Military Equipment Gone after Iraq Withdrawal?
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Where have American Forces and Military Equipment Gone after Iraq Withdrawal?

Saturday 3 October 2026 ،
Washington Post report says that in the weeks that preceded the exit, around 1,500 forces under the so-called anti-ISIS mission were present in Iraq. This number was the total of the American and coalition forces and so the number of the Americans was several hundred or less. After pulling out of va ...
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Post-Withdrawal US Security Strategy in Iraq: Five Scenarios
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Post-Withdrawal US Security Strategy in Iraq: Five Scenarios

Monday 5 October 2026 ،
Washington will abandon its security and strategic role in Iraq and the broader region. Pieces of evidence show that Washington is moving past the old policy of relying on thousands of military forces and dozens of fixed military based as main tools of influence in favor of a model where intelligen ...
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True Security and Political Independence in Iraq Matters after US Military Pullout: Expert
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True Security and Political Independence in Iraq Matters after US Military Pullout: Expert

Tuesday 6 October 2026 ،
Washington's new instruments to maintain its sway over Iraq. Alwaght: Now that the US moved its forces out of Iraq, what do you think of its alternative strategy in Baghdad? Can we essentially think that military pullout means Iraq has lost its significance in the White House's regional str ...
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Recent Moscow Format Meeting Heavily Overshadowed by Kabul-Islamabad Tensions
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Recent Moscow Format Meeting Heavily Overshadowed by Kabul-Islamabad Tensions

Wednesday 7 October 2026 ،
Washington is barely reacting on Afghanistan, apparently keeping largely quiet. Only at the United Nations did an American official state that Washington does not recognize Taliban rule and will neither reopen its embassy nor invest in Afghanistan until the rights of women and minorities are respect ...
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Velayati Condemns Rubio’s Remarks, Says US Has No Moral Authority to Lecture Others
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Velayati Condemns Rubio’s Remarks, Says US Has No Moral Authority to Lecture Others

Saturday 10 October 2026 ،
Washington lacked the moral standing to lecture other nations. His remarks followed similar criticism of Rubio from senior Iranian officials, including Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
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Taliban Investment in Iran’s Chabahar Port: Opportunity or Challenge?
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Taliban Investment in Iran’s Chabahar Port: Opportunity or Challenge?

Sunday 11 October 2026 ،
Washington let Chabahar’s sanctions waiver expire in May 2026, and is now weighing temporarily transferring its stake to an Iranian entity to dodge secondary sanctions. Iran sees this as a test of India’s true will, a survival tactic caught between geoeconomic imperatives and the geopoli ...
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White House War Cover-up Suggests Trump is Empty-handed
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White House War Cover-up Suggests Trump is Empty-handed

Monday 12 October 2026 ،
Washington has received from Iran. While the US President Donald Trump still insists on what he calls military gains in the conflict and even threatens with renewed strikes to finish the job, the publication of the new round of documents about Pentagon's cover-up on the number of casualties in ...

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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.