In a letter to the contestants in the 12th Dar Al-Quran of the Imam Ali contest – a Quran memorization contest for women – which opened December 15, 2018 in Jamkaran, near the holy city of Qom in Iran, Iranian Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani, a senior Shi'ite scholar and part of the Iranian ruling establishment, stressed the appreciation of the merit of women in Islam and their importance in the Quranic tradition. He contrasted this with the denigrating and humiliating treatment of women in ...
The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series , as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project , released during the past week. *MEMRI REPORTS Special Dispatch No. 7891 – Imprisoned Hizb Ut-Tahrir Australia Leader Ismail Al-Wahwah, Whose Sermons And Statements MEMRI Has Translated Since 2012 And Which Have Been Provided To Authorities, Is Moved To Maximum Security Prison In Jordan; He Calls For Caliphate And For Waging Jihad Against ...
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 ...
Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of the IRGC, said on Channel 2 TV (Iran) on February 2, 2019, that Iran has the experience and technological ability necessary to expand the stealth capabilities, destructive capacity, and range of its missile force, and that it has not done so only because of strategic considerations. Explaining that Iran's current defense strategy is one of deterrence and that this strategy is not fixed, Salami said that any desire on the part of Europe or other countries ...
In the course of January 2019, the Syrian regime and its affiliated media escalated their statements against Israel. The statements came in response to Israel's continued attacks against the Iranian presence in Syria: On January 11, a Syrian military source reported that Israeli planes had fired several rockets into the Damascus area, 1 and on January 20 the Syrian army reported an Israeli attack in the south of the country, which, unusually, had taken place during the day. 2 The Syrian regime ...
The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series , as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project , released during the past week. *MEMRI REPORTS Special Dispatch No. 7871 – Russia In The World – Russia's Moscow-Caracas 'Golden Flight' , February 1, 2019 Special Dispatch No. 7870 – Article On Egyptian Website: There Is No Evidence The Holocaust Happened , January 31, 2019 Special Dispatch No. 7869 – Russia In The World – Reactions To ...
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.)annou Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send ...
The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series , as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project , released during the past week. *MEMRI REPORTS Inquiry and Analysis Report No. 1432 – Debate In Lebanon On Inviting Syria To Arab Economic Summit In Beirut, Normalizing Relations With It , January 18, 2019 Special Dispatch No. 7852 – Kuwaiti Columnist: The Humanity And Civility Of A Country Is Measured By The Status Of Women In It , ...
In his January 10, 2019 speech at the American University in Cairo, delivered during a two-day visit to Egypt as part of his Middle East tour, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo compared the policies of the Trump and Obama administrations, stating that the latter had erred in its Middle East policies, including in its response to the events in Egypt and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood. Under the Trump administration, on the other hand, the U.S. has reasserted its traditional role as a force ...
One hundred days following the murder of senior Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, below is a compilation of Khashoggi articles, statements and videos posted by MEMRI since 2003. Khashoggi On Terrorism And Religious Extremism Muslims Must Ban Suicide Bombings For Moral Reasons Following the July 7 London bombings, Khashoggi, then a media advisor to the Saudi Embassy in London, called on the religious authorities in the Muslim world to firmly ban suicide ...
