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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 Urges UN Security Council to Punish Persian Gulf States for Backing US-Israeli Attack
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Iran Urges UN Security Council to Punish Persian Gulf States for Backing US-Israeli Attack

Saturday 23 May 2026
war on Iran. Iran specifically named Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan as states that facilitated or supported the attacks through granting military base access, logistical and operational support, intelligence sharing, air defense coordination, and airspace ...
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Amid Mediators’ Visits to Tehran, Questions Rise about Terms of Any Iran-US Agreement
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Amid Mediators’ Visits to Tehran, Questions Rise about Terms of Any Iran-US Agreement

Sunday 24 May 2026 ،
war dim. What is certain is that given the remarks by the Iranian officials, Tehran does not loosen any of red lines in favor of an agreement with Washington. Actually, the logic rules that the Iranian officials must look at the negotiations based on the field conditions and the new equations that ...
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Baghaei Underscores Invaders’ Failure to Overcome Iran
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Baghaei Underscores Invaders’ Failure to Overcome Iran

Sunday 24 May 2026 ،
warned that any aggressor—specifically the US under a Trump administration—would be drawn into an endless, unwinnable war, with ordinary Americans footing the bill for warmongering oligarchs and Washington’s war lobby.
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Potential US-Iran Pact Threatens Israel’s Goals, Former US Counterterrorism Chief Asserts
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Potential US-Iran Pact Threatens Israel’s Goals, Former US Counterterrorism Chief Asserts

Sunday 24 May 2026 ،
war against Iran, said that while a potential Trump-brokered agreement is positive, Israel would see it as an existential threat to its goals. He argued that to prevent Israeli sabotage of any peace deal, the US must cut military aid enabling Israeli strikes on Iran and warn that an attack on Leban ...
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Russia says Oreshnik attack was revenge for Ukrainian ‘terrorist acts’
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Russia says Oreshnik attack was revenge for Ukrainian ‘terrorist acts’

Monday 25 May 2026 ،
warned of a potential significant air attack within 24 hours prior to the Russian retaliation.
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Eurasia Amid Iran War: Economy, Security and Rivalry of Corridors
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Eurasia Amid Iran War: Economy, Security and Rivalry of Corridors

Sunday 24 May 2026 ،
war remains uncertain where it heads, Eurasian countries eye new routes that distance from traditional reliance on Iran, Russia, and China. Alwaght- While the US-Israeli war on Iran has drawn the whole world attention to the Persian Gulf as the heart of the tension, this war has its impacts going be ...
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World Outraged by Israeli Treatment of Sumud Flotilla
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World Outraged by Israeli Treatment of Sumud Flotilla

Monday 25 May 2026 ،
warships of the Israeli army have once again hit the news headlines on Gaza developments. On May 19, Israeli occupation army raided the fleet that was trying to symbolically break years-long sea blockade on the war-ravaged Gaza, stopping the boats and assaulting their crews of civilians. According ...
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Untold Angles of Minab School Crime: Unending Stories of that Black Day
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Untold Angles of Minab School Crime: Unending Stories of that Black Day

Monday 25 May 2026 ،
war crime by the US and Israeli regime, the wound is still fresh, never to fade from memory of the Iranians. In addition to several commemorations, recently a new ceremony was held at the site of the barbarously bombed school in Hormozgan province south of Iran. The aim was clear: To keep memory of ...
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Potential Agreement with Iran: Washington Frustrated, Tel Aviv Furious
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Potential Agreement with Iran: Washington Frustrated, Tel Aviv Furious

Monday 25 May 2026 ،
war against Iran, but his remarks about possible deal with Iran raise questions by many about whether he is losing the war. Current conditions in the region show that Iran is totally in control of the Strait of Hormuz, resisting American threats. At the same time some analysts say that the Trump&rs ...
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Iran’s Frozen Assets in Qatar: Pressure Lever or Key to Agreement?
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Iran’s Frozen Assets in Qatar: Pressure Lever or Key to Agreement?

Tuesday 26 May 2026 ،
ward a final agreement. South Korea, constrained by US secondary sanctions on Iran, refused to release the funds. That refusal turned into a major diplomatic headache between Tehran and Seoul, escalating to the point that in March 2021, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized a South Korean tanker ...

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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.