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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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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios
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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios

Monday 10 August 2026
foreign businessmen, including billionaire Arnon Milchan, in exchange for political favors and special treatment. Case 2000 centers on his conversations with Arnon Mozes, publisher of Yedioth Ahronoth, in which Netanyahu is suspected of trying to cut an illegal deal: favorable media coverage in retu ...
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Sen. Murphy Declares Trump Has ‘Lost’ Iran War
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Sen. Murphy Declares Trump Has ‘Lost’ Iran War

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy says the US president has “lost the war” against Iran ALWAGHT- Democratic Senator Chris Murphy says the US president has “lost the war” against Iran. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said the US has “lost this war” with Iran, arguing that prolo ...
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Iran FM Spox: Israel Is Region’s ‘Greatest Security Threat’
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Iran FM Spox: Israel Is Region’s ‘Greatest Security Threat’

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
foreign powers. Referring to the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement among Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye, he described it as evidence of a changing regional outlook and growing recognition that security cannot be imported. Baghaei said Israeli attacks on Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, along with ...
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Restructuring Iran’s Military Command: Show of Stability amid War
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Restructuring Iran’s Military Command: Show of Stability amid War

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
foreign media has been the appointment of Major General Ali Abdollahi as chief of the Armed Forces General Staff and Major General Ahmad Vahidi as the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).  Al Jazeera, in a report headlined “Iran Cementing Its Chain of Command; Veter ...
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Iraq Disarming Project: End of a Security Order or Start of Home Confrontation?
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Iraq Disarming Project: End of a Security Order or Start of Home Confrontation?

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
foreign boots on the ground risk transforming an armed standoff from a domestic dispute into a nationally charged cause célèbre. The fourtg phase would involve targeted arrests of commanders and active members. If a group continues armed operations after political, financial, and inte ...
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
foreign minister, have indicated, this agreement is in its final stages, but determining the shipping route is different from the issue of reopening. Alwaght: Amid these Iranian conditions, Iran changed secretary of Supreme National Security Council. Is this related to the ongoing negotiations? Za ...
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US Aggression Against Iran Behind Hormuz Insecurity
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US Aggression Against Iran Behind Hormuz Insecurity

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said that insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz is a direct consequence of US and Israeli aggression against Iran ALWAGHT- During talks with his German counterpart, Johann Wadephul, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said that insecurity in the ...
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
foreign-backed ISIS terrorist organization all helped weapons proliferation in the Iraqi society.  After fall of Ba'athist rule, a considerable part of weapons of the army in stockpiles were sold out to the groups and ordinary citizens. The security vacuum catalized by army dissolution int ...
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Trump Turkey Escape Scandal: New Life under Shadow of Vengeance
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Trump Turkey Escape Scandal: New Life under Shadow of Vengeance

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
foreign trip he will ever take.
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Major Cleanup of Polluted Waters Along Qeshm Shores
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Major Cleanup of Polluted Waters Along Qeshm Shores

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
Large sections of the waters along Qeshm Island’s shores have been cleared of the recent oil slick ALWAGHT- A local official in southern Hormozgan Province has announced that large sections of the waters along Qeshm Island’s shores have been cleared of the recent oil slick. Operations to cont ...

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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.