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Special Dispatch No. 6223 - Debate In Arab World On Link Between Paris Attacks, France's Position In Syria Crisis - 11/18/15

The November 13, 2015 Paris terror attacks by the Islamic State (ISIS) sparked a debate in the Arab world over the link between the attacks and France's position in the Syria crisis. The Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad hastened to leverage the attacks in order to harshly criticize France's relations with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, known to be the main supporters of the Syrian opposition. The regime claimed that by maintaining these relations, France was in effect supporting terrorism, ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1202 - Egypt-Saudi Arabia Relations: Substantial Rifts Despite Shared Basic Interests - 11/11/15

Introduction Since the ouster of Muhammad Mursi in July 2013, Saudi-Egyptian relations have been close and marked by common interests. Saudi Arabia backed the Egyptian military's ousting of Mursi and supported its claim that the ouster expressed the will of the people, in the face of international claims that it was a military coup. Alongside political support for the new regime, Saudi Arabia also donated billions of dollars to restore Egypt's economy. However, despite the friendly relations, ...

Y. Graff

Special Announcements No. 414 - MEMRI TV Clip: Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV Report On 'Former And Incumbent MPs, As Well As Party Leaders And Cultural Figures From Europe' Meeting With Hizbullah Deputy Sec.-Gen. Naim Qassem - 11/05/15

On November 2, 2015, Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV aired a report about a meeting in Lebanon between "former and incumbent MPs as well as party leaders and cultural figures from Europe" and Hizbullah Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem, in what the channel termed a "show of solidarity with the resistance in its fight against terrorism." In the report, an interpreter translates statements to reporters by former Belgian MP Laurent Louis as follows: "The Western leaders' collaboration with ...

Special Dispatch No. 6203 - IRGC-Affiliated Website: Some 30 IRGC Officers Killed On Syrian Front In The Past Two Weeks - 10/30/15

Officers in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as well as websites affiliated with it, have recently published data regarding the number of IRGC and Basij officers who were killed in the past two weeks while fighting in Syria. The death toll includes three generals, battalion commanders, captains and lieutenants, as well as one pilot. These fighters were apparently taking part in "Operation Muharram", a large-scale military operation in Syria named after the current month of ...

Special Dispatch No. 6202 - Iranian Official: The World Knows Iran Is The Victorious Party In The Syrian Drama; Iran Will Continue Defending The Assad Regime - 10/30/15

In an October 30, 2015 interview with the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the IRGC, Hossein Sheikholislam, an advisor to Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, who is close to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said that Tehran would continue defending the Assad regime. He stressed that Iran is coming to the Vienna talks about Syria as the "victorious" party, and that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will conduct himself in a manner "befitting the blood shed by the ...

JTTM Weekly No. 183 - Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Weekend Summary - 10/15/15

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. 6183 - Iran Threatens Saudi Arabia: 'The IRGC... Will Take Vengeance' On The Al-Sa'ud Regime; 'Our Responses Will Be... Harsh And Decisive' - 10/11/15

In recent days, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the top echelons of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) dispatched threatening messages to Saudi Arabia's rulers in response to the hundreds of Iranians killed in the stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, which claimed the lives of over a thousand Hajj pilgrims. Khamenei, along with IRGC commanders and ideological camp leaders, were furious at the Saudi royal family, holding it responsible for the disaster and promising a "harsh and ...

Special Dispatch No. 6174 - Prominent Iranian Analyst Amir Taheri: Unlike Kennedy, Nixon And Reagan, Who Drove A Hard Bargain In Negotiations With Enemies, Obama Is Capitulating And Chasing Illusions In Deal With Iran - 10/02/15

In an opinion piece published August 25, 2015 in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat , Amir Taheri, a prominent Iranian analyst, author and columnist, compared Obama's policy towards Iran to the policies of Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan in their dealings with the U.S.'s main rivals in their day - the USSR and China. Taheri wrote that, in making the deal with Iran, Obama wishes to portray himself as an heir to the tradition established by these presidents of defusing conflict through ...

MEMRI Daily Brief No. 60 - The Elephant In The Room - 10/02/15

On September 3, 2015, not two months after the July 14 announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action at Vienna and its celebration at the White House and in Europe, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dropped a bombshell. In a speech to the Iranian Assembly of Experts, he backtracked from the agreement, demanding a new concession: that the sanctions be "lifted," not merely "suspended." 1 If that term is not changed, said Khamenei, there is no agreement. If the West only "suspends" the ...

Yigal Carmon

Special Dispatch No. 6169 - Influential Emirati Business Leader And Commentator: Side Deal With Iran, Which Allows It To Inspect Itself, Belies Obama's Claim That Iran Agreement Is Safe; Europe's Haste To Embrace Iran Is Unseemly - 09/28/15

In two articles he published in the UAE English-language daily The National , prominent businessman and writer Khalaf Ahmad Al-Habtoor harshly criticized the nuclear arrangements recently reached with Iran. In an August 23, 2015 article, he leveled criticism at the side deal between the IAEA and Iran. He stated that this deal proves that an organization "known for its professionalism and stringent monitoring" has been politicized by the agreement's signers, who he said are either seeking to cut ...

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