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- Iranian, Italian FMs Hold Talks on Hormuz Strait
- Palestine at the Heart of Islamic World’s Concerns, Says Pezeshkian
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Palestine at the Heart of Islamic World’s Concerns, Says Pezeshkian Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stressed that the Palestinian issue, as the primary concern of the Islamic world
Iran Executes Two Convicted Mossad Operatives Iran carried out the executions of two men early Monday after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences for alleged cooperation with Israel’s Mossad
Iran Rules Out US Negotiations, Says Hormuz Talks with Oman Are Temporary Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tehran is not engaged in any negotiations with Washington at present
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Iran, Oman Foreign Ministers Discuss Regional Developments by Phone The foreign ministers of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Sultanate of Oman held a telephone conversation on Monday
Iran Warns It Will Use All Means Necessary to Counter US Aggression Iran’s Foreign Ministry reaffirmed its commitment to using all tools necessary for self-defense
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More Than 3.2 Million People Pass Through Iran on Way to Iraq for Arbaeen Iran has recorded the transit of more than 3.2 million Arbaeen pilgrims through its designated border crossings
Iran Prepared to Target US and Israeli Infrastructure Iran has prepared a comprehensive retaliatory plan targeting Israel’s critical infrastructure and US energy facilities in the region
Araghchi Cautions Britain Over Backing Aggressors On Friday, Iran’s foreign minister warned his British counterpart that any cooperation with aggressors targeting Iran is unacceptable
Iran: States Shielding America Could Face the ‘Fire of War’ Major General Ali Abdollahi, commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, has cautioned regional countries
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US Strike in Iraq Leaves Four IRGC Quds Force Members Martyred Four members of the IRGC Quds Force tasked with protecting Arbaeen pilgrims in Iraq were martyred in US airstrikes overnight in Diyala Province
Iranian FM Condemns Joint US-Saudi Attacks on Iraqi Territory Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly criticized the coordinated US-Saudi strikes targeting several areas in Iraq
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Ansarullah
A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite
represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
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
A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban
Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
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 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
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
Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda
A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Riyadh’s Strategic Mistake and Ansarullah’s Historic Opportunity: Is Hormuz-Bab-el-Mandeb Equation Brewing?
Wednesday 15 July 2026
coalition Washington had assembled to break the Red Sea blockade. Thwarted, the US was forced into a de facto non-aggression understanding to protect its own commercial and military vessels.
Throughout this period, Ansarallah had an important opportunity to turn the screws on Saudi shipping lanes, ...
Analysis
What’s Behind Postponing Netanyahu’s Planned US Visit?
Tuesday 21 July 2026
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coalition.
Trump, for his part, seems to believe that if Netanyahu adopted more independent positions and projected the image of a strong leader, he could actually draw votes from more moderate segments of the right-wing camp and strengthen his electoral standing.
In the meantime, Netanyahu, looki ...
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What’s the Agenda of Iraqi PM’s Tehran Visit?
Thursday 23 July 2026
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coalition and the resistance factions, is acutely aware that if the US-Israeli aggression on Iran expands, Iraqi resistance groups, driven by their ideological and political commitments, will join the fray alongside other Axis of Resistance actors. Baghdad is therefore trying to walk a fine line: pr ...
Analysis
Bab-el-Mandeb Under Siege: Saudi Yemen Blockade Turns against Riyadh
Saturday 25 July 2026
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coalition imposed a brutal, all-encompassing siege on Yemen, sealing its ports and airports to all essential goods. But now things have changed. Ansarullah resistance movement, which for years bore the brunt of a land, sea, and air blockade, announced last Monday that they have placed Riyadh under t ...
Analysis
Have Arab Rulers Finally Woken Up from Deep Sleep to Reality?
Sunday 26 July 2026
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coalitions, and turned economic sanctions into a permanent cudgel against Tehran. In short, the Iranian threat was not just a security assessment, it was the very backbone of the American-designed order in the Persian Gulf.
Today, however, the region's realities have drifted far from that narra ...
Analysis
Dim Outlook of Israeli Influence in Central Asia: What Does Russian Analyst Say?
Sunday 26 July 2026
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coalition. Rather, it was a strategic signal, aimed as much at Washington as at Moscow, that Astana's is growing independent of the Kremlin.
Joining the Abraham Accords is of minor cost to Kazakhstan as the country has had diplomatic ties with Israeli regime since 1992, and it can win American ...
Analysis
Why’s UAE Gone Silent in Renewed Saudi-Yemeni Escalation?
Monday 27 July 2026
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coalition against Yemen, has chosen to stay out of direct intervention to avoid costs of a rejuvenated confrontation.
Yemen developments in UAE's favor
The UAE’s calculated silence on the latest round of Yemen’s war is less a sign of neutrality than a reflection of deep strategic r ...
Paper
From Red Sea to Black Sea: Geopolitical Impacts of Ukraine’s Attack on Iran’s Ship in Caspian Sea
Monday 27 July 2026
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coalition and the emerging coalitions forming around it.
Just as the strategic Bab-el-Mandeb Strait was injected into the war calculus in recent days, following the Yemeni Ansarullah movement's declaration of a naval blockade against Saudi ports, the activation of the Caspian Sea front against ...
Analysis
Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?
Sunday 2 August 2026
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coalition against Yemen’s Ansarullah. It seems it has not learned enough. Alwaght- After two weeks of fruitless airstrikes against Yemen to press Ansarullah resistance movement to withdraw its recently announced sea blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, Riyadh once again moved to the already test ...
Report
Mecca Agreement: Seeking Security in Mirage of a Sunni Bloc
Saturday 8 August 2026
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coalitions, Saudi Arabia is eyeing a more limited and more cohesive bloc of three states with various capacities. Saudi Arabia with its financial strength, Pakistani with its military and nuclear capacity, and Turkey with its defense industries and operational capabilities fit this bloc.
Why Mecca? ...
