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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’s Obtaining of Israeli Nuclear and Military Intelligence: 7 Strategic Impacts
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Iran’s Obtaining of Israeli Nuclear and Military Intelligence: 7 Strategic Impacts

Saturday 27 September 2025
dealt a major intelligence blow to Israel whose impacts are expected to be painful. Alwaght- Earlier in June and a few days before the Israeli war on Iran, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry unveiled a complicated operation that led to transferring to the country a large number of documents on the Is ...
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Tehran Recalls Envoys After E3 Triggers Sanctions Snapback
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Tehran Recalls Envoys After E3 Triggers Sanctions Snapback

Saturday 27 September 2025 ،
deal. The decision followed a UN vote in which the US, UK, France, and several other countries blocked a Russian-Chinese proposal to delay sanctions on Tehran. As a result, the snapback mechanism remains active, with sanctions set to be reimposed this weekend, formally ending the JCPOA framework. ...
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Short and Long-term Implications of Israeli-Iranian War: What Do Western Think Tanks Say?
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Short and Long-term Implications of Israeli-Iranian War: What Do Western Think Tanks Say?

Sunday 28 September 2025 ،
deal for the release of prisoners in Gaza, suggesting such a move could help steer the region back toward a path of greater convergence. Transition from shadow war to limited direct war The Rand Corporation described the 12-day war as a transition from the proxy and shadow wars to a limited direct ...
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Tehran: UN Members Not Bound by Voided Anti-Iran Resolutions
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Tehran: UN Members Not Bound by Voided Anti-Iran Resolutions

Sunday 28 September 2025 ،
deal (JCPOA), carries no legal weight for UN member states. Iran emphasized that the so-called “snapback” invoked by the US, UK, France, and Germany has no legitimacy, stressing that the terminated resolutions impose no obligations. The ministry accused Washington and its allies of misu ...
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Iran Vows Strong Response Over Enforced Illegal Resolutions – Qalibaf
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Iran Vows Strong Response Over Enforced Illegal Resolutions – Qalibaf

Sunday 28 September 2025 ،
deal. He added that enforcing the disputed resolutions faces serious legal hurdles at the United Nations. The remarks came after the E3 triggered the snapback process, restoring UN bans on Iran’s arms deals, missile program, and overseas assets. Tehran dismissed the move as illegitimate, accu ...
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Snapback Mechanism Lays Bare Fundamental East-West Gap
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Snapback Mechanism Lays Bare Fundamental East-West Gap

Sunday 28 September 2025 ،
deal and its appendices among the Eastern and Western powers. As the expiration of the nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), draws closer, the US-submissive European countries claim that they have the right to reinstate all the international sanctions on Ir ...
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Hamas a Firm Block Ahead of Trump’s Gaza "Riviera" Plan
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Hamas a Firm Block Ahead of Trump’s Gaza "Riviera" Plan

Tuesday 30 September 2025 ،
deal of the Century, have shown that without considering the realities on the ground and the will of the Palestinian people, no external initiative will be able to change the equations. What is happening today in Gaza bears witness to this very fact.  Although Western and Israeli leaders speak ...
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Much Ado about Nothing: Dissecting Trump’s Gaza Plan
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Much Ado about Nothing: Dissecting Trump’s Gaza Plan

Tuesday 30 September 2025 ،
deal in return for the complete withdrawal of occupying forces from Gaza. It has not opposed releasing prisoners if the war stops and the Israeli army withdraws from the Strip. Critique 5 Claim: After all hostages are freed, Israel will release 250 prisoners serving life sentences and 1,700 Gazan ...
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Trump’s Gaza Plan: A New Test of Strategic Arab Passivity
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Trump’s Gaza Plan: A New Test of Strategic Arab Passivity

Wednesday 1 October 2025 ،
deal of the century he presented in 2020 for Arab-Israeli normalization. The central idea of the initiative is fully eliminating the Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, internationally administering Gaza without final determination of its status, and taking decisions openly biased in favor the Isr ...
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Blair, a War Criminal Named for Trump’s Gaza Administration
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Blair, a War Criminal Named for Trump’s Gaza Administration

Thursday 2 October 2025 ،
dealt a heavy blow to his credibility both at home and across West Asia. After resigning in 2007, largely due to collapsing popularity tied to Iraq, Blair was appointed Middle East envoy for the Quartet —representing the UN, the US, the EU and Russia. The Quartet’s stated mission was to ...

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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.