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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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Iraq’s Grand Faw Port Project and Iranian Opportunities
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Iraq’s Grand Faw Port Project and Iranian Opportunities

Wednesday 18 September 2024
south of the country.  The strategic project of Grand Faw Port, which the Iraqis say will be one of the largest ports in the West Asian region, is planned to both expand the country's maritime trade operations and through diversification of the economy to some extent assuage the pressures ...
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Introducing BRICS Pay: Kazan Summit Signals a Shifting World Order
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Introducing BRICS Pay: Kazan Summit Signals a Shifting World Order

Wednesday 23 October 2024 ،
seamless transactions among the BRICS member countries, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and uses blockchain technology and smart contracts to enable transparent and decentralized decision-making. This platform can support digital currencies or stablecoins linked to national ...
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Mashhad Summit, Ideal Opportunity to Boost ECO Cooperation
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Mashhad Summit, Ideal Opportunity to Boost ECO Cooperation

Monday 2 December 2024 ،
sea routes are more risky and air routes are also costly, land and rail corridors will attract global attention in the future. Therefore, ECO members can transform the region into a global trade hub by linking the East-West corridor with the North-South corridor. Mashhad summit, an opportunity to ...
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Iran and EAEU Partnership: Blurring the Trade, Energy, and Transit Borders
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Iran and EAEU Partnership: Blurring the Trade, Energy, and Transit Borders

Sunday 2 February 2025 ،
southern ports in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of ​​Oman to connect landlocked member countries of the union to global markets.” EAEU's economic capacities  Founded in 2015, the EAEU is an economic bloc comprised of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan, and Iran rece ...
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Iran-China-Russia: The Emerging Pole of Naval Power
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Iran-China-Russia: The Emerging Pole of Naval Power

Sunday 16 March 2025 ،
search and rescue operations. The aim of the exercises is to deepen military mutual trust and pragmatic cooperation between the forces of the participating countries. The ministry added that the exercises will mainly focus on non-traditional security areas and will play an important role in ensurin ...
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Aspects of Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan Agreement
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Aspects of Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan Agreement

Sunday 6 April 2025 ،
The trilateral agreement is meant to eliminate disputes and pave the way for regional economic prosperity. Alwaght- Past week marked a significant development for Central Asia that can play a decisive role in the peace and stability prospects in the region. On March 31, presidents of Tajikistan, Kyr ...
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Turkic World Project Falling, Dealing Blow to Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism
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Turkic World Project Falling, Dealing Blow to Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism

Monday 14 April 2025 ،
Erdogan may need to review his thoughts about Turkic World as Turkic Central Asian republics choose Europe over Ankara. Alwaght- Contrary to popular belief, the foreign relations of the government of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are not better than the disturbed economic and internal c ...
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Iran and Azerbaijan: Neighbors with High Partnership Potentials
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Iran and Azerbaijan: Neighbors with High Partnership Potentials

Monday 28 April 2025 ،
seaports in East Asia. Having in mind that the main exports of Azerbaijan include oil products and energy, Iran's oil export terminals in the Persian Gulf provide a great opportunity for Baku to export its energy to Eastern markets. In the 2017, when tensions between Qatar and the (Persian) Gulf ...
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Yemen’s Air Defense a Tough Test for US Air Superiority
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Yemen’s Air Defense a Tough Test for US Air Superiority

Saturday 3 May 2025 ،
Air campaign against Yemen seems to be backfiring as Ansarullah Movement regularly shoots down US drones and fighter jets. Alwaght- While the US over the past two years has conducted hundreds of airstrikes on Yemen to destroy military infrastructure of Ansarullah resistance movement, it has not only ...
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BRICS Security Cooperation and Iran’s Key Role
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BRICS Security Cooperation and Iran’s Key Role

Saturday 3 May 2025 ،
Given its military and cyber capabilities and regional influence, Iran can play a key role in new security order eyed by BRICS. Alwaght- Although BRICS primarily focuses on institution-building—such as the establishment of the New Development Bank to promote business cooperation among member s ...

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