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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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Armed Boats Challenge to Capture Vessel in Strait of Hormuz
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Armed Boats Challenge to Capture Vessel in Strait of Hormuz

Wednesday 4 February 2026
boats of a vessel near Oman ALWAGHT- On Tuesday, Western media reported an attempted interception by armed boats of a vessel near Oman. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported on Tuesday that multiple small armed craft attempted to intercept a commercial vessel approximately 1 ...
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IRGC Navy’s Strait of Hormuz Drills Tells US Who’s the Boss in Persian Gulf
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IRGC Navy’s Strait of Hormuz Drills Tells US Who’s the Boss in Persian Gulf

Wednesday 18 February 2026 ،
boats. Vessels like the missile-armed catamaran Shahid Soleimani, the helicopter-carrying Shahid Nazeri, and the drone-carrier Shahid Rudaki form critical links in the IRGC Navy's power chain, a chain that now seamlessly connects operational capacity in the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and ev ...
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How Would the World Look Like if Strait of Hormuz Closed?
Analysis

How Would the World Look Like if Strait of Hormuz Closed?

Saturday 21 February 2026 ،
boats, drones, anti-ship missiles, or naval mines. In such a scenario, up to 18 million barrels per day of non-Iranian crude oil and refined petroleum products could be seized or temporarily halted. That would send crude prices soaring past $90 per barrel and push average US retail gasoline prices a ...
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Boots on the Ground? Trump and His Last Gamble in Iran War
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Boots on the Ground? Trump and His Last Gamble in Iran War

Tuesday 31 March 2026 ،
boats, they fled the region, leaving Trump in an embarrassing position. Instead of boasting about their power and grandeur, Trump shamefully admitted that the US's $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford, which is the world’s largest and most expensive aircraft carrier, fled the battlefield to spar ...
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The Combined Iranian Weapon that Takes Down any Power
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The Combined Iranian Weapon that Takes Down any Power

Monday 20 April 2026 ،
boats, has left the world baffled on how Iran could unveil an even more formidable weapon on the battlefield, what its officials call the “Iranian nuclear bomb”: the Strait of Hormuz. During the war, Iran completely held control over the navigation through the strait, where around 20 pe ...
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Trump Blasts Reporter for Reading Gunman’s Manifesto: ‘I’m Not a Pedophile’
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Trump Blasts Reporter for Reading Gunman’s Manifesto: ‘I’m Not a Pedophile’

Tuesday 28 April 2026 ،
boats, an attack on an Iranian girls' school, immigration enforcement, and the Jeffrey Epstein case. The injured Secret Service agent is in stable condition, and Allen remains in federal custody.
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US Strikes Civilian Vessels En Route to Iran, Killing 5
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US Strikes Civilian Vessels En Route to Iran, Killing 5

Wednesday 6 May 2026 ،
boats traveling from Oman to Iran ALWAGHT- A military source told local Iranian media that the United States attacked two civilian cargo boats traveling from Oman to Iran, killing at least five people on board. A military source has rejected US claims that it targeted Islamic Revolution Guards Corp ...
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Iran’s Perplexing and Complex Military Strategy in Strait of Hormuz
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Iran’s Perplexing and Complex Military Strategy in Strait of Hormuz

Wednesday 6 May 2026 ،
boats can close in on targets in no time and seize the initiative using surprise tactics. A key feature of these craft is their ability to operate in coordinated swarm tactics. Multiple boats approach a single target from different directions, overwhelming it in a complex, high-pressure situation. ...
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World Outraged by Israeli Treatment of Sumud Flotilla
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World Outraged by Israeli Treatment of Sumud Flotilla

Monday 25 May 2026 ،
boats carrying meager food and medical aid crushed by the heavily armed warships of the Israeli army have once again hit the news headlines on Gaza developments. On May 19, Israeli occupation army raided the fleet that was trying to symbolically break years-long sea blockade on the war-ravaged Gaza ...
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Foreign Ministry Releases Statement Following Latest US Aggression
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Foreign Ministry Releases Statement Following Latest US Aggression

Monday 13 July 2026 ،
boats, cargo vessels and buildings, while also interfering with transit arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting regional security and international commercial shipping. It warned that any country assisting US military operations against Iran could face consequences, saying the sources of a ...

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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.