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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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US Economic Terrorism: Bases, Goals

US Economic Terrorism: Bases, Goals

Thursday 2 May 2019
Richard Nephew, a former architect of anti-Iranian sanctions, says triggering “emotional reactions” is one of the most favorable scenarios sought by the Iran ban designers in White House. The final goal is to create a sense of mistrust in the national economy to double the effects of the ...
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The Untold Story of Christian Zionism’s Rise to Power in US

The Untold Story of Christian Zionism’s Rise to Power in US

Saturday 13 July 2019 ،
Richard Nixon. Then the political power of dispensationalist theology dramatically moved from the private quarters of the halls of power into the mainstream American political discourse with the founding of the Moral Majority by evangelical preacher Jerry Falwell in 1979. In the early 1970s, Falw ...
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With Yemeni Responses Unabated, Saudi Military Strategy Review Unavoidable

With Yemeni Responses Unabated, Saudi Military Strategy Review Unavoidable

Friday 19 July 2019 ،
Richard Nixon designed his “bipolar” strategy for West Asia, according to which Saudi Arabia and the pre-revolution Iran played as two economic and military pillars of the US in the region, Riyadh has been playing as Washington’s regional proxy on the strength of its oil money. The ...
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Faux Humanitarian Irwin Cotler, White Helmets, Whitewashing of An Appalling Agenda

Faux Humanitarian Irwin Cotler, White Helmets, Whitewashing of An Appalling Agenda

Friday 2 August 2019 ،
Richard Goldstone, who led the UN investigation of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, which killed 1,400 Palestinians in Gazain 2008 and 2009.   Cotler and Venezuela It should come as no surprise that Cotler’s support for U.S.-backed foreign interventions extends to the other side of ...
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US Calls on Europe to Outlaw Lebanon’s Hezbollah Movement

US Calls on Europe to Outlaw Lebanon’s Hezbollah Movement

Sunday 29 December 2019 ،
Richard Grenell tweeted on Saturday. The call came one day after a US civilian contractor was killed and several US and Iraqi military personnel were wounded in a rocket attack on K1 military base in Iraq's northern Kirkuk Province. A US official told CNN that Washington was rev ...
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Man Who Filmed Police Murder of Eric Garner Says Prison Guards Threatened to Give Him COVID-19

Man Who Filmed Police Murder of Eric Garner Says Prison Guards Threatened to Give Him COVID-19

Tuesday 21 April 2020 ،
Richardson, “We just want him home. Orta shot to national attention in 2014 when he filmed NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo dragging Garner to the ground in a chokehold, suffocating him to death on the streets of Staten Island. Garner’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” becam ...
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Geopolitics, Profit, Poppies: How CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State

Geopolitics, Profit, Poppies: How CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State

Monday 28 June 2021 ،
Richard Helms, there was little heroin production in Central Asia by the mid 1970s,” Professor Alfred McCoy, author of “The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade,” told MintPress. But with the start of the CIA secret war, opium production along the Afghanistan ...
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Iran Blacklists 51 US Officials, Commanders for Involvement in General Soleimani Assassination

Iran Blacklists 51 US Officials, Commanders for Involvement in General Soleimani Assassination

Sunday 9 January 2022 ،
Richard Douglas Clarke, commander of the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM), Scott Alan Howell, former commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), James C. Slife, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), Joseph Thomas Guastella, former commander of United St ...
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Pakistan on Brink: What Collapse of Nuclear-Armed Regional Power Could Mean for World

Pakistan on Brink: What Collapse of Nuclear-Armed Regional Power Could Mean for World

Monday 13 February 2023 ،
Richard Holbrooke that Pakistan was “too big to fail” — likening the country to U.S. banks that received massive bailouts to prevent collapse in 2008. Although Pakistan is a nuclear power, as well as the fifth most populated country in the world, whether its leaders can pull themse ...
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More than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders

More than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders

Tuesday 27 June 2023 ،
Richard Sessions RELATIONSHIP: Great-great-grandfather NUMBER ENSLAVED: 96   One of the wealthiest slaveholders was Richard Sessions, the great-great-grandfather of Representative Pete Sessions, a Republican from Texas. A family history written by the congressman’s grandfather in 1975 ...

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