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Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1573 - Saudi And Lebanese Accusations: Hizbullah Is Operating A Network For Smuggling Drugs To Saudi Arabia And The Region; It Has Turned Lebanon Into A Base For Exporting Drugs And Terrorism - 04/28/21

spkt.io/a/1817433 Introduction On April 23, 2021, customs authorities at the Saudi port of Jeddah announced that they had thwarted an attempt to smuggle drugs – mainly Captagon (fenethylline hydrochloride) pills, an amphetamine drug popular in the Middle East – in a shipment of pomegranates arriving from Lebanon. Subsequently, the Saudi Interior Ministry announced that beginning April 25, the country would accept no Lebanese imports of agricultural produce. The ministry added that it had ...

Z. Harel

MEMRI Daily Brief No. 274 - The Ottoman Road Untraveled - 04/27/21

spkt.io/a/1814229 The Biden administration's recognition of the 1915 Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks initially received a relatively muted response by Turkish officials. Foreign Minister Cavusoglu tweeted "We have nothing to learn from anybody on our own past," while Erdoğan's nationalist political ally Devlet Bahçeli retorted that Turkey's history was "faultless" with "neither genocides nor massacres" by the Turkish nation. Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin chided the ...

Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez

MEMRI Daily Brief No. 272 - The Afghan Taliban's Goal Is To Establish A Sunni Islamic Theocratic State – They Do Not Believe In Power-Sharing With A Democratically Elected Government - 04/22/21

spkt.io/a/1797644 Introduction On April 14, 2021, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, or the Afghan Taliban organization) announced that it would not participate in the Istanbul conference on the future of Afghanistan. The Istanbul conference, which was set to begin on April 24, is led primarily by the United States, with other partners being Turkey, Qatar, and the United Nations. 1 Muhammad Naeem, the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate's Political Office in Doha, tweeted: "Until all foreign ...

Tufail Ahmad

Special Dispatch No. 9295 - IRGC Commanders Praise Iran's Islamic Revolution: It Is 'The Revival And Dawning Of The Sun Of Islam' And Its 'Truth... Constitutes The Renewed Revival Of Mankind' - 04/21/21

spkt.io/a/1792825 The following are complimentary offerings from the MEMRI Iran Threat Monitor Project ( ITMP ). For more information, write to memri@memri.org with " ITMP Subscription" in the subject line. In recent weeks, two leaders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – IRGC commander Hossein Salami and IRGC Qods Force commander Esmail Qaani – have praised Iran's Islamic Revolution and glorified its contribution to humanity. They stressed that the revolution has awakened ...

Special Dispatch No. 9274 - In Tehran, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Signs Bilateral 25-Year Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement, Saying: 'China Firmly Supports Iran In Opposing Hegemony And Safeguarding National Sovereignty And Dignity' - 04/06/21

spkt.io/a/1742440 On March 27, 2021, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Iran, as part of his Middle East official trip. 1 In Tehran, Wang and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif signed a bilateral 25-year comprehensive cooperation agreement. 2 The agreement was in accordance with the 2016 Joint Statement on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between I.R. Islamic Republic of Iran and P.R. People's Republic of China," 3 signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President ...

Special Dispatch No. 9255 - A Jew, An American, A Brit, And A Saudi Conspire To Destroy Shi'ite Islam In A Play Staged At Imam Reza Shrine In Mashhad, Iran - 03/29/21

spkt.io/a/1707777 In a play staged at the Shrine of the 8th Imam A li Reza in Mashhad, a Jew, an American, a Brit, and a Saudi conspire against Iran and claim that Iran seeks to annihilate Israel and destroy the entire world. The play was aired on Khorasan Razavi TV (Iran) on March 20, 2021. According to the play, the Zionists created ISIS along with the Americans in order to fight "Shi'ite Iran." The characters plot to remove the love of the Mahdi from the hearts of the Shi'ites by creating ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1567 - The 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Revisited - 03/26/21

spkt.io/a/1707115 Introduction It was a great day and history could be seen in the making. The U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, the European Union, China, and Russia had finally reached an agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran on blocking its plans to obtain nuclear weapons. As declared by President Obama in the White House on July 14, 2015, the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), had been "negotiated from a position of principle and strength, and the ...

A. Savyon

MEMRI Daily Brief No. 267 - Time For New (And Fewer) Stratagems In America's Global 'Great Game'? - 03/23/21

spkt.io/a/1694625 Thirty years ago was the last year in the existence of that baleful entity known as the Soviet Union. August 1991 saw an attempted coup attempting to stave off the inevitable, but by the end of the year the red flag with the hammer and sickle came down. That was also the year of the Gulf War, in which the United States and its allies easily expelled Saddam Hussein from Iraq. In June 2020, the U.S. Embassy in Seoul displayed and removed BLM and LGBTQ banners. 1 The United ...

Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez

Special Announcements No. 1035 - Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Weekly: March 13 - 20, 2021 - 03/19/21

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 ...

Special Dispatch No. 9237 - Iraqi Journalist Living In Exile Slams Khamenei As 'Worst Dictator In History,' Even Crueler Than Saddam Hussein - 03/17/21

spkt.io/a/1673472 In his column on the Saudi news portal Elaph, Iraqi journalist 'Udai Hatem, who was persecuted by the Iranian regime and even forced to leave Iraq after criticizing Iran's presence and policies there, published an open letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling him "the worst dictator the human race has ever known." While recounting the persecution he and his family suffered at the hands of the pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, Hatem accuses these militias, and their ...

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