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Axis of Resistance

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Etymology

Calque of Arabic مِحْوَرُ المُقَاوَمَة (miḥwaru l-muqāwama). First used in 2002 in Libya in response to George W. Bush's axis of evil.

  1. derived from مِحْوَرُ المُقَاوَمَة

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of axis of resistance.

  2. An Iranian-led, anti-American, anti-Zionist, Shiite Islamist coalition in the Middle East…

    An Iranian-led, anti-American, anti-Zionist, Shiite Islamist coalition in the Middle East whose significant participants include the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.

    • Oddly, the Islamic Republic claims that Israel “lost five wars with the Axis of Resistance since the July 2006 war with the Lebanese resistance.”
    • Iran’s axis of resistance consists of a network of political parties and armed groups that span Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen.

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