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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 at Eurasia’s Heart: How’s SCO Helping Tehran Cushion American Sanctions?
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Iran at Eurasia’s Heart: How’s SCO Helping Tehran Cushion American Sanctions?

Wednesday 2 September 2026
world's population and a combined GDP estimated at over $23 trillion. The bloc also spans vast swaths of Eurasia, holding an outsized share of the region's energy reserves, mineral wealth, and industrial capacity. For Iran, that means a seat at a vast Asian market. China is already Tehran ...
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Free Fall in Polls: Iran War Consequences Turn Nightmarish to Trump
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Free Fall in Polls: Iran War Consequences Turn Nightmarish to Trump

Tuesday 8 September 2026 ،
world peace, but his critics have different opinion. They say that this war serves the strategic aims of the Israeli regime rather than directly serving the American interests. Analysts and political figures at Council on Foreign Relations say that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enco ...
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Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s Mode Shift from Reaction to Action
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Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s Mode Shift from Reaction to Action

Tuesday 8 September 2026 ،
world's most vital energy chokepoints, and any disruption there reverberates instantly through global oil markets. The past few days have offered a case in point: Brent crude surged to nearly $98 a barrel in recent trading, while US West Texas Intermediate climbed above $91. That volatility und ...
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Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb: Two Chokepoints, One Equation
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Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb: Two Chokepoints, One Equation

Saturday 12 September 2026 ،
world trade, so much so that their simultaneous disruption can seriously restrict the alternative shipping options. Significance of dominating Mokha port and strategic islands in controlling Bab-el-Mandeb Strait  Yemen’s military and security equation, after years of stalemate and a cea ...
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Fifth Fleet: From Safe Base to Story of Loss
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Fifth Fleet: From Safe Base to Story of Loss

Tuesday 15 September 2026 ،
world’s seaborborne oil trade. For Washington, Bahrain is therefore an operational anchor, providing a platform to monitor and control shipping lanes, protect energy infrastructure, provide logistical support, gather intelligence and rapidly deploy forces for large-scale combat operations. Th ...
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Ali Al-Taher Capture Toll a Hyperbole, Hezbollah in Proper Conditions: Analyst
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Ali Al-Taher Capture Toll a Hyperbole, Hezbollah in Proper Conditions: Analyst

Wednesday 16 September 2026 ،
worldwide, including Lebanon's Shia, was one of Hezbollah's key motives for going to war. Hezbollah had other objectives as well, one of the most important being to respond to the Israeli regime's repeated ceasefire violations over the 15 months preceding the war against Iran, according ...
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle

Saturday 19 September 2026 ،
world's most important waterways. Reuters, too, has described the Ansarullah's advances on Red Sea coast and liberation of Mokha the key developments of the new phase of war. Under such conditions, the war's equation is no longer defined solely by front lines on the ground. Bab-el-Mande ...
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Trump’s War against the World at UNGA
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Trump’s War against the World at UNGA

Wednesday 23 September 2026 ،
world is living an array of war and security crises, but instead of going diplomatic to de-escalate the tensions, he once again bragged about the US military power as the main instrument of his administration's foreign policy, at a time his war against Iran has gone nowhere. The US war against ...
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US Has no Choice but to Accept Iranian Conditions: Iran’s MP
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US Has no Choice but to Accept Iranian Conditions: Iran’s MP

Saturday 26 September 2026 ،
world would now dare claim that Iran has been defeated. Indeed, no fair-minded observer or even an unfair one, could easily swallow the assertion that Iran has lost. Even inside the US itself, voices across the political spectrum, among both Donald Trump's allies and his detractors, have acknowl ...
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Second Sayyed Nasrallah Anniversary: Display of Loyalty to Resistance Legacy
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Second Sayyed Nasrallah Anniversary: Display of Loyalty to Resistance Legacy

Monday 28 September 2026 ،
world’s free people. You are the global leader of the resistance and an inspiration to the free. Your body has left this world, but your teachings and your light remain, giving us dignity and will. You built a movement, a resistance and a steadfast, powerful popular base, and that approach wil ...

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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.