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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 Signals Readiness for Talks While Rejecting Pressure and Intimidation
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Iran Signals Readiness for Talks While Rejecting Pressure and Intimidation

Sunday 27 September 2026
disputes ALWAGHT- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran remains committed to negotiations as a means of resolving disputes, while rejecting any attempt to dictate terms through threats, pressure, or military force. He stressed that Iran would not submit to external coercion. Iranian Presi ...
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Three Cases in a Secret Trip: Netanyahu’s Mystery in Abu Dhabi
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Three Cases in a Secret Trip: Netanyahu’s Mystery in Abu Dhabi

Thursday 1 October 2026 ،
disputes, is what gives it special weight. At the same time, it should not be concluded that the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Israeli regime have entered a unified coalition, or that Saudi representatives attended the meeting. There is not enough public evidence for such a conclusion. What is more firml ...
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Lebanon Govt. Frustrated with US as Talks with Israel Run into Deadlock
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Lebanon Govt. Frustrated with US as Talks with Israel Run into Deadlock

Thursday 1 October 2026 ،
dispute on acting on the obligations and continued Israeli aggression. The Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam in a recent meeting with the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for a transparent timetable for implementing the deal for withdrawal of the occupiers. He stressed that the obligations must be ca ...
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Battle for Yemen’s Strategic Belt: Marib, Taiz, and Lahij at One Equation
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Battle for Yemen’s Strategic Belt: Marib, Taiz, and Lahij at One Equation

Sunday 4 October 2026 ،
disputes, the absence of a unified command and a tangle of competing political and regional agendas. Those divisions have badly eroded the opposition's ability to field an effective force against Ansarallah advances. In the meantime, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have recently pushed to unify their f ...
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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 ،
dispute, using the Moscow meeting instrumentally both to condemn the Taliban and to get that condemnation into the final statement. But Russia did not quite accept Pakistan’s approach, and at the same time does not consider the Afghan Taliban free of all charges. It also opposes any return of ...
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Israeli Navy: From Protecting Coasts to Addressing Threats in Distant Waters
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Israeli Navy: From Protecting Coasts to Addressing Threats in Distant Waters

Saturday 10 October 2026 ،
disputes, competition over energy resources, and rivalries among regional actors are tightly interwoven. For that reason, Tel Aviv must be able to control parts of the Eastern Mediterranean extending to the areas around Cyprus. Here the link between economic interests and naval power becomes clear. ...
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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 ،
dispute was not fundamentally about the Islamic Revolution but about Iran’s identity as an independent and historically established civilization. He maintained that resistance should not be celebrated in one context and condemned in another, depending on whose interests it serves. The Iranian ...
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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 ،
dispute. Some residents and local officials are asking how we can be prepared to hand over land to the Taliban when they are not paying our water rights. The final issue is the insecurity and security risks in Sistan-Baluchestan, which have intensified somewhat in recent months. The assassination o ...
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Claim of Civilizational War With Iran: Why’s Rubio Distorting History?
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Claim of Civilizational War With Iran: Why’s Rubio Distorting History?

Monday 12 October 2026 ،
disputes over Russia and Ukraine.  Lust for power has replaced justice: Joseph Loconte, an American historian, author and scholar of Western civilization, argued in an essay for the conservative National Review that Rubio's speech was riddled with historical and conceptual errors. His cent ...
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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 ،
dispute over a few numbers. When a government leans on military superiority and operational success to justify a war, keeping the true scale of human and military losses under wraps can paint a very different picture of how the conflict is actually going. That is why the question of how many have be ...

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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.