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Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1032 - Saudis Infuriated, Insulted By U.S. Efforts At Rapprochement With Iran - 10/31/13

Introduction U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's November 3, 2013 visit to Saudi Arabia will take place amidst considerable tension between the two countries. The Arab Spring has given rise to more than a few disagreements between the two countries over the policy of the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama vis-à-vis the crises in the Middle East. These disagreements, already severe due to the countries' opposite policies on several issues – specifically the ouster of former president ...

Y. Yehoshua

Special Dispatch No. 5499 - The Struggle Between Khamenei And Rafsanjani Over The Iranian Leadership – Part VIII: Rafsanjani Receives Death Threats - 10/28/13

Recent statements by Iranian Expediency Council head Hashemi Rafsanjani regarding his claim that regime founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini would have agreed in principle to the omission of the "Death to America" slogan. This claim, which he made in order to prepare the ground for direct negotiations with the U.S. on the nuclear issue, has sparked strong ideological and emotional protests in the anti-Rafsanjani camp. 1 As will be recalled, on September 30, 2013, Rafsanjani's office presented an ...

Special Dispatch No. 5488 - Assad Supporters, Opponents Argue: Who Should Have Received The Nobel Peace Prize? - 10/18/13

The decision to award the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) sparked intense controversy in the Arab press between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime. According to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, the prize recognizes the OPCW's extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons, not only in Syria but worldwide. However, many in the media, in the Arab world and outside it, assessed that the organization had been chosen specifically ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1025 - The Struggle Between Khamenei And Rafsanjani Over The Iranian Leadership – Part VI: Despite Rafsanjani's Push To Omit 'Death To America' Slogan, Demonstrators At Tehran Friday Sermon Persist In Chanting It, Wave Placards Against Obama, Rafsanjani - 10/10/13

Introduction The continuing struggle between the ideological followers of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and supporters of his political rival, Expediency Council Chairman Hashemi Rafsanjani, who recently forced Khamenei's consent to direct nuclear talks with the U.S., was clearly reflected in events during the October 4, 2013 central Friday sermon in Tehran. In the two weeks since President Rohani's return to Tehran from New York, the Iranian regime has tried to show the world, and ...

Yossi Mansharof

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1024 - The Iranian Regime Signals It Will Agree To A Deal With The U.S. – If Its Right To Enrich Uranium On Its Soil Is Recognized; The U.S. Administration Signals That It Will Accept This Condition - 10/09/13

Introduction The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) bans signatory countries that are not members of the "Nuclear Club" from enriching uranium on their own soil unless they meet stringent regulatory preconditions and have proven that the enrichment is both low-level and strictly for civilian purposes. The international community allows countries that require nuclear energy for peaceful purposes to purchase the enriched uranium that they need from authorized countries, under the supervision ...

Yigal Carmon

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1022 - The Official Iranian Version Regarding Khamenei's Alleged Anti-Nuclear Weapons Fatwa Is A Lie - 10/03/13

Introduction Iran's official position on the publication of the alleged fatwa by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei regarding nuclear weapons is expressed in two main open sources: 1) In mentioning the alleged fatwa in an interview, Iranian President Hassan Rohani referred to a 2004 Friday sermon by Khamenei (see Appendix: Iranian President Rohani's May 2012 Reference To Khamenei's Alleged Fatwa , in which he refers to the publication of the fatwa which he claims Khamenei issued in November ...

Yigal Carmon

Special Dispatch No. 5462 - Editorials In Gulf Press Criticize American-Russian Deal, U.N. Resolution On Syria's Chemical Weapons: A Defeat For U.S.; Assad Can Continue Slaughtering Syrians Using Conventional Weapons - 09/30/13

The agreement signed September 14, 2013 in Geneva by the U.S. and Russia on Syria's chemical weapons, which calls for these weapons to be removed from Syria or destroyed under international oversight, was received with harsh criticism in the Gulf, especially in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Editorials and articles in the Saudi, Qatari and UAE press interpreted the agreement as an American defeat, and stated that, by focusing on the chemical weapons alone, it deflected the world's attention away from ...

Special Dispatch No. 5443 - Official In Egypt's National Salvation Front: If Obama Attacks Syria, He Will Become One Of America's Bloodiest Presidents - 09/12/13

Political analyst Dr. Wahid Abdel Meguid , formerly a member of Egypt's People's Assembly and currently an official in Egypt's National Salvation Front, which was the umbrella organization of opposition to the Mursi regime, published a column in the daily Al-Ahram in which he harshly criticized the U.S.'s intention to attack Syria and claimed that, if Obama decided to do so, he would become one of the bloodiest U.S. presidents since the 1960s. According to Abdel Meguid , there is no concrete ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1012 - Iran's Cyber War: Hackers In Service Of The Regime; IRGC Claims Iran Can Hack Enemy's Advanced Weapons Systems; Iranian Army Official: 'The Cyber Arena Is Actually The Arena Of The Hidden Imam' - 08/25/13

Introduction The Iranian regime views the cyber arena as an active warzone with the U.S. and its allies, and in recent years has invested substantial efforts in it, for both psychological warfare and physical sabotage of Western infrastructure. The cyber arena is also used by the regime as a tool for spreading its ideology, by exporting the Islamic Revolution and by preparing for the arrival of the Hidden Imam (the Shi'ite messiah). Regime officials and mouthpieces often depict Iran as ...

Yossi Mansharof

Special Dispatch No. 5418 - Following Reports On Chemical Attack In Syria, Articles In Arab Press Blame International Community, U.S. For The Massacre - 08/22/13

Following reports that over 1,000 people, most of them women and children, died in an August 21, 2013 chemical attack by the Syrian regime in the Al-Ghouta region near Damascus, heads of the Syrian opposition placed the blame for the attack on the international community and especially on the U.S., who, they said, have failed to confront the Assad regime for over two years. George Sabra, president of the Syrian National Council and a senior official in the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella ...

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