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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 War Bill for the US:$33.4 Billion Just Until Ceasefire
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Iran War Bill for the US:$33.4 Billion Just Until Ceasefire

Friday 18 September 2026
The US war price has been high and can go higher if war resumes, as Washington is far from capable of replenishing depleted munitions. Alwaght- The recent official admission of the US Department of War to the strategic depletion of the munition stockpiles is ond of the key indications of the heavy p ...
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Africa: Iran’s Strategic Opportunity to Break the Barriers
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Africa: Iran’s Strategic Opportunity to Break the Barriers

Monday 21 September 2026 ،
financial resources, investment capital, and diplomatic capacity. So, perhaps the most important advantage of Iran in Africa is not its investments but its power to provide low-cost cooperation, and matching the needs of these countries. Drones, defense equipment, medicine, technical services, mach ...
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Araghchi: Israeli Lobby Seeks to Tie US Interests to Israel’s Fate
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Araghchi: Israeli Lobby Seeks to Tie US Interests to Israel’s Fate

Tuesday 22 September 2026 ،
financial pressure on Israel carry consequences for the United States itself. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi criticized what he described as the Israeli lobby’s growing influence over US policy, saying Washington should free itself from pressure to align its interests with Israel. He ...
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Peshmerga Unification Project: End of a Partisan Military or Start of Redefining Kurdistan Region’s Power?
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Peshmerga Unification Project: End of a Partisan Military or Start of Redefining Kurdistan Region’s Power?

Tuesday 22 September 2026 ،
financial support for those forces. Actually, this shift of approach by the US must be seen not necessarily as forssking the autonomous region, but as a shift of model of security responsibility. The Americans want the security structure of Kurdistan fall within the framework of the Iraqi official ...
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Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation
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Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation

Saturday 26 September 2026 ،
financial backing for the Peshmerga. They have sought to foster the belief that the US has granted the Kurds special status and that they occupy a privileged place in US strategy, and have parlayed that perception into various political gains at home and abroad. Yet a range of cases in recent years ...
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Iranian Flight Suspension Tests Iraq’s Sovereignty Amid US Pressure
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Iranian Flight Suspension Tests Iraq’s Sovereignty Amid US Pressure

Saturday 26 September 2026 ،
financial and legal mechanisms rather than confrontation, while coordinating its economic, diplomatic and religious ties with Iraq. He also recommended seeking exemptions for medical and religious travel and strengthening Iran’s border-airport and overland transport capacity to reduce long-ter ...
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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 ،
financial markets contradict the US assertion that Iran has no control over the Strait of Hormuz. He pointed to what he described as a substantial market premium of $35 above pre-invasion levels, rising to $50 when using earlier and actual figures. Ghalibaf said the market’s reaction either r ...
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Iran Flights Embargo and Test of Iraq’s Sovereignty
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Iran Flights Embargo and Test of Iraq’s Sovereignty

Monday 28 September 2026 ،
financial and economic outcomes of the move, it should be noted that according to official data, over 60 percent of the inbound and outbound flights of Iran are to and from Iraq, which is a considerable figure. According to Hormatullah Rafee, the head of Iranian travel and tourism agencies syndicate ...
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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 ،
financial and strategic bill for 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 ...
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Power of Resistance Forced the US Out of Iraq: Expert
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Power of Resistance Forced the US Out of Iraq: Expert

Friday 2 October 2026 ،
financial and economic mechanisms, and the revenues from oil sales and other resources are transferred through a financial system controlled by Washington. This situation has practically left the US hand free in managing Iraq's financial flows, and a significant portion of the resources the gove ...

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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.