Political analyst Dr. Wahid Abdel Meguid , formerly a member of Egypt's People's Assembly and currently an official in Egypt's National Salvation Front, which was the umbrella organization of opposition to the Mursi regime, published a column in the daily Al-Ahram in which he harshly criticized the U.S.'s intention to attack Syria and claimed that, if Obama decided to do so, he would become one of the bloodiest U.S. presidents since the 1960s. According to Abdel Meguid , there is no concrete ...
Introduction The Iranian regime views the cyber arena as an active warzone with the U.S. and its allies, and in recent years has invested substantial efforts in it, for both psychological warfare and physical sabotage of Western infrastructure. The cyber arena is also used by the regime as a tool for spreading its ideology, by exporting the Islamic Revolution and by preparing for the arrival of the Hidden Imam (the Shi'ite messiah). Regime officials and mouthpieces often depict Iran as ...
Following reports that over 1,000 people, most of them women and children, died in an August 21, 2013 chemical attack by the Syrian regime in the Al-Ghouta region near Damascus, heads of the Syrian opposition placed the blame for the attack on the international community and especially on the U.S., who, they said, have failed to confront the Assad regime for over two years. George Sabra, president of the Syrian National Council and a senior official in the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella ...
Introduction On August 14, 2013, protests are planned to take place in Bahrain calling for the ouster of the Bahraini regime and for the establishment of a democratic regime in its place. The protests are part of the Bahraini "Tamarrud" campaign, which was inspired by the eponymous campaign in Egypt. The Tamarrud Bahrain campaign, launched by activists of the February 14 Youth Coalition, is a continuation of the Shi'ite protests against the Sunni Aal Khalifa regime that have been ongoing in the ...
Iranian President Hassan Rohani in Qods Day march; the sign behind him that says "Down with U.S.A." in English says "Death to America" in Persian and Arabic. 1 Introduction As it does every year, the Iranian regime marked Qods (Jerusalem) Day (Rooz-e Qods) on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan, which this year fell on August 2, as "a day of the Islamic world's solidarity with the Palestinians and with the struggle against the crimes of the oppressing Zionist regime." 2 Several notable ...
On July 10, 2013, the Iranian reformist daily Shargh published an article by Jewish Central Committee of Tehran head Haroun Yeshaya, focusing mainly on criticism of the most recent instance of Holocaust denial by Iran's outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad had made the statements in his July 7, 2013 farewell speech in Tehran, in which he set out in detail the achievements of his government and policy. 1 In that speech, Ahmadinejad said: "I raised the topic of the Holocaust from ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock – among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
"In the elections, the people said 'no' to Khamenei's monopoly" - Rafsanjani 1 "I will support Rohani as long as I live... God will make our way successful so we can solve problems together with the people. The leader will also help" - Rafsanjani 2 "The state is not the personal property of anyone" - Rafsanjani's daily newspaper Jomhouri-e Eslami 3 Introduction Political observers and global media view the Iranian elections as a struggle between a reformist stream – and its purported ...
Introduction On July 3, Egyptian Defense Minister 'Abd Al-Fatah Al-Sisi removed Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi and appointed Supreme Constitutional Court head 'Adly Mansour interim president. This move came after Mursi rejected Al-Sisi's 48-hour ultimatum 1 to meet what he presented as the demands of the people, which included his resignation and the holding of early elections. 2 Mursi's ouster by the military sparked a wave of responses in the world and in Arab media. The most support for ...
