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Special Dispatch No. 6409 - Iranian Hezbollah Organization Issues Threats Of Physical Harm Against Former Iranian Presidents Rafsanjani And Khatami, Calls On President Rohani To Cancel JCPOA - 05/03/16

In an April 12, 2016 interview, Mahdi Abdi, the director of affairs for the northwestern provinces and towns for the coordination council of the fundamentalist organization Hezbollah Iran, which is affiliated with Iran's ideological circles, warned leaders of Iran's pragmatic camp, including Expediency Council chairman and former president Hashemi Rafsanjani and former president Mohammad Khatami, not to undermine the status of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The interview was published by ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1243 - Anti-U.S. Cartoons In Russia's Pro-Kremlin Media - 04/25/16

Introduction Political cartoons can currently be found in only a few independent media outlets, such as Polit.ru and Svoboda.org, and in some pro-Kremlin websites and newspapers, such as RIA Novosti, 1 Sputnik International, 2 and Sharzh I Pero . The main motif in cartoons on pro-Kremlin websites is the latent Russia-U.S. political-military conflict, and NATO as a U.S. tool for military expansion eastward. The government-owned news agency RIA Novosti and its international branch Sputnik ...

Elena Voinova

Special Dispatch No. 6396 - Editor-In-Chief Of Portuguese-Language Pravda Website: Kerry Is 'Pig-Faced' And 'Arrogant' To Condemn Russian Fighter Jet's Flight Over U.S. Warship In Baltic - 04/20/16

On April 16, 2016, the English-language website of the pro-Kremlin media outlet Pravda.ru published an article by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, director and editor-in-chief of the Portuguese-language Pravda.ru website , titled "Kerry: Reckless, Provocative, Dangerous." 1 In the article, Bancroft-Hinchey stated that the U.S. should not have its navy stationed in the Baltic Sea, underlining that the U.S. should look at a map and see that the Baltic Sea is closer to Russia than to the U.S. On April ...

Special Dispatch No. 6383 - Lebanese Writer: Hizbullah Is No Longer A Resistance Organization, But An Occupier And Target For Resistance - 04/12/16

Tension between the Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, and Hizbullah is currently very high, as reflected in measures taken recently by the Gulf states against this organization in response to its military involvement in Arab countries such as Syria, Iraq and Yemen, including its designation as a terror organization. 1 Against the backdrop of this tension, the Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal, which belongs to Hizbullah's rivals in Lebanon, the March 14 Forces, and is known for its support for Saudi ...

Special Dispatch No. 6373 - Power Struggle Between Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei's Ideological Camp And Rafsanjani's Pragmatic Camp Intensifies – Part III: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Speaks Out Against Pragmatic Camp Leaders Rafsanjani, Rohani - 04/05/16

In two speeches in as many weeks - one on March 30, 2016 marking a Shi'ite religious holiday and the other on March 20, marking Norooz, the Persian New Year - Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei focused on attacking his main political rivals - Iranian President Hassan Rohani, and Expediency Council chairman Hashemi Rafsanjani, the leaders of the Iranian pragmatic camp. 1 Khamenei's Holiday Address, March 30 In his March 30 address, Khamenei called his old foe Rafsanjani "a traitor" for his ...

MEMRI Daily Brief No. 86 - Pakistan's Execution Of Malik Mumtaz Qadri – The Ideology Of Blasphemy In Islam - 03/31/16

Introduction On February 29, the Pakistani government executed Malik Mumtaz Qadri, an elite commando who assassinated Salman Taseer, the liberal governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, for advocating reforms in Pakistan's blasphemy laws. As soon as the report of Mumtaz Qadri's execution emerged, protests were organized by Islamic clerics across Pakistan, especially in the cities of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Nawabshah, Quetta, Peshawar, Muzaffarabad and others ...

Tufail Ahmad

Special Dispatch No. 6365 - Self-Criticism In The Arab World Following Brussels Attacks: Muslim Justification Of The Attacks Is Unacceptable; We Must Recognize That Most Terrorism Is Carried Out By Muslims - 03/29/16

Following the March 22, 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks that killed 35 and wounded over 300 others the Arab press featured numerous articles accusing the West and various opponents in the region of supporting terrorism. 1 However, several notable articles expressed self-criticism, laying the responsibility for the creation of suicide bombers and for horrific terror attacks on the prevailing cultures and perceptions in the Muslim and Arab countries of origin. They harshly criticized the Muslims ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1239 - Understanding Russian Political Ideology And Vision: A Call For Eurasia, From Lisbon To Vladivostok - 03/23/16

Introduction In a landmark treatise titled "Russia's Foreign Policy: Historical Background," published March 3, 2016 in the Russian foreign affairs journal Russia in Global Affairs , Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov challenged the Western perspective on Russia with an analysis of Russian history. According to Lavrov, Russia has played an important role in shaping both European history and contemporary European policies. He writes that contrary to the belief widespread in the West that ...

Anna Mahjar-Barducci

Special Dispatch No. 6323 - Iran's Urdu TV Channel Celebrates 37th Anniversary Of Iran's Islamic Revolution: '[It] Marks The Domination Of The Faith Over Kufr'; 'Iranian Nation Even Now Considers America Its Biggest Enemy'; 'Death To America', - 02/24/16

On February 11, 2016, the 37th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the Urdu-language service of the Iranian government-run television channel Sahar TV devoted its Andaz-e-Jahan ("Way of the World") program to "The Islamic Revolution and the Wave of Islamic Awakening." The Iranian state-run Urdu television channel is aimed at Urdu-speaking Shi'ite audiences in Pakistan and India. Still from TV program on Iranian Sahar TV's Urdu service The following is a summary and excerpts from the program ...

Special Dispatch No. 6321 - Power Struggle Between Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei's Ideological Camp And Rafsanjani's Pragmatic Camp Intensifies – Part II: Regime Aligns Against 'New Fitna' (Pragmatic Camp Led By Rafsanjani) And U.S. - 02/24/16

In advance of the February 2016 elections in Iran for both the Majlis and the Assembly of Experts, and in light of Hashemi Rafsanjani's November 25, 2015 announcement that he will run for the Assembly of Experts, the power struggle between the pragmatic camp, which Rafsanjani leads, and the ideological camp, led by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has intensified. It now centers on two main focal points: 1. Iran's conduct vis-à-vis the JCPOA. See MEMRI Inquiry & Analysis No. 1204, Breaking Report ...

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