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- Special Dispatch No. 8464 - Reactions In Iraq To Parliamentary Decision Demanding That Iraqi Government End Foreign Military Presence In Iraq - 01/05/20
On January 5, 2020, 172 Iraqi lawmakers out of 329, which is just enough for quorum, voted to approve a "decision," not a law, to end the presence in Iraq of the U.S.-led international coalition to defeat the Islamic State and to demand that the Iraqi government file an official complaint at the United Nations against the U.S. for killing Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Qods Force, which is the foreign operations branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. A statement ...
- Special Dispatch No. 8463 - Al-Jazeera Reporting Following Soleimani's Killing: Retaliation Is 'Something Absolute And Inevitable' And Its Arena Will Stretch From Palestine To Uzbekistan - 01/05/20
In the days since the January 3, 2020 U.S. killing of IRGC Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani, Al-Jazeera has published numerous op-eds on its English-language website. For example, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, identified as an associate professor at the Department of History, California State University, San Marcos, wrote on January 3 that Soleimani's assassination " may prove to be U.S. President Donald Trump's most reckless foreign policy decision in the Middle East" and that "the events of the ...
- Special Dispatch No. 8462 - Shi'ite Militias In Iraq Threaten To Target U.S. Bases There: Iraqi Forces Should Keep Their Distance From These Bases; Our Missiles Are Prepared - 01/05/20
In response to the January 2, 2020 assassination of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian IRGC's Qods Force, and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy head of Al-Hashd Al-Sha'bi (Popular Moilization Forces – PMF), Iraqi Shi'ite militias implicitly threatened to target U.S. bases in Iraq, warning the Iraqi security forces to keep away from them starting January 5 in the evening. In addition, an official in the militias called to enable "martyrdom-seekers" to volunteer for suicide missions against ...
- Special Announcements No. 859 - Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Weekend Summary: Week of December 28, 2019-January 4, 2020 - 01/04/20
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. 8460 - Reactions To U.S. Killing Of IRGC Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani – Part I - 01/03/20
The following are January 3, 2020 reactions to the killing early that morning of IRGC Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani and PMU deputy commander Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis in a U.S. airstrike at Baghdad's international airport. The reactions are from Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestinian terrorist organizations. Reactions In Iran Iranian TV Announcement About U.S. Killing Of IRGC Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani: He Met His Creator With Gratitude For Years Of Jihad On January 3, 2020, at 6:00 ...
- Special Dispatch No. 8459 - Turkish Government, Press Respond To U.S. Killing Of IRGC Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani: 'The Bandit U.S. Is Pursuing A New Order In The Middle East,' U.S. And Israel 'Will Drown In The Clean Blood Of [Soleimani] And All The Martyrs' - 01/03/20
spkt.io/a/434797 On January 2, 2020, the U.S. Defense Department announced that the U.S. military had killed Qassem Soleimani, leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force. News outlets reported that Soleimani had been killed in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport. 1 While the reaction of the government was mild, other political figures and the press, including the press affiliated with the government, responded harshly to the killing. Turkish Government Response Slow ...
- Special Dispatch No. 8455 - Iraqi Media To The Iran-Backed PMU: The U.S. Informed The Iraqi Prime Minister Of The Coming Airstrike, And He Informed You, Yet You Did Not Evacuate - 01/02/20
Introduction A debate surfaced in the Iraqi media on why the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) did not warn its forces in Anbar province of an imminent U.S. airstrike after they had received a warning from Iraq's Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, on December 28, 2019. In a televised meeting that aired on December 31, 2019, the Iraqi prime minister told his cabinet that he was informed of the airstrikes hours before in a phone call with U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and that ...
- Special Dispatch No. 8452 - Iranian Leader Khamenei In Response To Trump's Statements Blaming Iran For The Conflagration In Iraq: We Will Deal An Indiscriminate Blow To Anyone Who Threatens Us - 01/01/20
On December 31, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that he held Iran responsible for the December 27 attack on the K-1 airbase in Iraq's Kirkuk governorate, in which an American contractor was killed, as well as for the December 31 attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad by Iran-backed Shi'ite militias (in response for the December 29 U.S. attack on forces of the Popular Mobilization Forces – PMU). Trump's tweets (source: Twitter.com/realDonaldTrump, December 31, 2019) In response to ...
- Special Dispatch No. 8451 - Reactions To Attack On U.S. Embassy – PMU Leader: 'The Siege Of The U.S. Embassy In Tehran Back In 1979 Extends To Today's Siege Of The Embassy In Baghdad' - 12/31/19
Tensions continue to flare in Iraq between the U.S. and Iran-supported Iraqi Shi'ite militias following the December 28 U.S. aerial attacks on five Hizbullah Brigades positions in Iraq and Syria (see MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 8447 Reactions In Iraq To The Recent Violent Conflagration – Hizbullah Brigades: 'Trump Will Pay A Heavy Price In Iraq And In The Other Countries Where His Criminal Forces Are Found'; U.S. Bases Will Be Crushed , December 30, 2019). (Sources: Irakna.com, Arabi21.com) On ...
- Special Announcements No. 851 - 2019 Editor's Picks: Top Palestinian Clips From The MEMRI TV Project - 12/30/19
The following are selected MEMRI TV clips from The Palestinian Project in 2019, on a variety of topics. #7429 – A President Mahmoud Abbas At Jalazone Refugee Camp: We Will Enter Jerusalem As Millions Of Fighters; Our Martyrs Are The Most Sacred Thing We Have #7367 – Hamas Official Saleh Al-Arouri On Iranian TV: Iran, Hizbullah Have Helped The Palestinian Resistance Advance; Khamenei Is The Greatest Leader In The Islamic World #7345 – Hamas Political Bureau Member Fathi Hammad Calls On ...