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Special Dispatch No. 10289 - Saudi, Emirati Press: Hypocrite West Is Outraged When Iranian Drones Are Deployed In Ukraine, But Ignores Them In Middle East - 10/31/22

Following reports that Russia is using Iranian-made drones to attack targets in Ukraine, articles in the Saudi and Emirati press accused the West of hypocrisy and of employing a double standard in the context of Iran's aggression. The U.S. and Europe, say the articles, have for years been ignoring the Iranian drones launched by the Houthis against Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and tolerating Iran's destructive actions in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. But now, when the Iranian drones are ...

Special Announcements No. 1262 - Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Weekly: October 22-29, 2022 - 10/28/22

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 ...

MEMRI Daily Brief No. 425 - 40 Days Without Jina - The Revolution Continues In Her Name - 10/26/22

" Jîna giyan, to namirî, nawit ebête remiz " ("Jina, my soul. You won't die. Your name will become a symbol"), these are the Kurdish words engraved on Jina Amini's gravestone by her family, 1 a few days before she became the national symbol of the revolution against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Jina Amini's grave (Twitter.com) Threats To Jina Amini's Family On September 17, hours after Amini's funeral in her hometown Saqqez, thousands of Kurds poured into the streets across Eastern Kurdistan ( ...

Himdad Mustafa

MEMRI Daily Brief No. 423 - The Revolt In Iran Is An Ethnic Minorities-Led Uprising - 10/25/22

Introduction The ongoing protests against the Iranian regime can be defined not only as a women-led uprising, but also an ethnic minorities-led one. In fact, for the ethnic minorities that comprise almost half of Iran's population (e.g., Ahwazi Arabs, Kurds, and Balochis), this is a "revolution" for liberty and basic ethnic and human rights of which they have been deprived not only by the Islamic Republic of Iran, but also by the former Persian regimes (e.g., under the Pahlavi dynasty) for ...

Himdad Mustafa

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1662 - Colombia's New President Gustavo Petro And The Dawn Of A New Era Of Opportunity For Iran In Latin America - 10/21/22

On June 19, 2022, for the first time in its history, Colombia elected a leftist president, Gustavo Petro, and will now have a leftist government. This historic departure from Colombia's traditional right-leaning and U.S.-aligned foreign policy led many countries, among them Iran, to rejoice at the prospect of the opportunities presented by the new president. An analysis of the recent content of Iran's main Spanish-language media outlet, HispanTV, reveals that Iran is hoping for three main ...

Emmanuel Cadieux

Special Announcements No. 1257 - UK Politicians, Public Figures Call On BBC To Stop Featuring British-Palestinian Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan For His Antisemitic, Pro-Terrorism Statements; MEMRI Has Been Monitoring His Public Appearances Since 2001 - 10/17/22

On September 8, 2022, 36 British politicians, public figures, and leaders of the Jewish community signed a letter calling on BBC Director-General Tim Davie to stop featuring British-Palestinian commentator Abdel Bari Atwan on the network, pointing to his antisemitic views and statements expressing support for terrorists. 1 MEMRI has been monitoring and documenting Atwan's public appearances, including his antisemitic and pro-terrorism statements, since 2001. The following are MEMRI TV clips of ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1655 - Iran's Hijab War – An Expression Of The Struggle For Political Freedom: Part II - 10/07/22

Introduction The first part of this report on the struggle over the hijab in Iran focused on enforcement of hijab on women in public, the Islamic regime's perception of this enforcement, and senior Iranian officials' explanations and justification for it. 1 This second part will review how the government, headed by President Ebrahim Raisi, is enforcing this policy in recent months, closing public spaces to women who are considered to be wearing their hijab improperly. It will also discuss the ...

Special Dispatch No. 10248 - Senior Saudi Journalist Al-Homayed Accuses Nasrallah Of Hypocrisy: He Curses Those Who Make Peace With Israel, Yet Hopes For An Agreement Between Lebanon And Israel On Maritime Border - 10/06/22

In an article titled "Nobel Delusion Prize," published October 5, 2022 in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, the daily's former editor-in-chief, senior Saudi journalist Tariq Al-Homayed, accuses Hizbullah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah of hypocrisy for welcoming the U.S.-brokered contacts between Lebanon and Israel on the demarcation of the maritime border between them. Nasrallah, he says, has for years been spewing the Iranian slogans of "death to America" and "death to Israel ...

MEMRI Daily Brief No. 417 - The Ongoing Battle Between Modernity And Tradition In Iran - 10/06/22

Introduction An ideological battle is taking place in Iran. The main challenge that Iran has been facing since the 1979 Islamic Revolution is the confrontation between tradition and modernity. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Revolution until his death in 1989, understood the challenge and tried to find a compromise between the two. 1 However, he believed that when modernity becomes a synonym for liberalism and for Western civilization ...

Anna Mahjar-Barducci

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1654 - Iran's Hijab War – An Expression Of The Struggle For Political Freedom: Part I - 10/03/22

Introduction The death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian woman who died on September 1 6 , 2022 while in custody of the Iranian morality police, has sparked public protests across the country. Ms. Amini, from the Kurdish region in western Iran, was visiting family in Tehran when she was arrested by the morality police and was taken to its facility for "reeducation" in wearing the hijab, which she had allegedly worn improperly. According to the regime, she "fainted in police custody... and ...

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