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The MEMRI Weekly: January 29-February 5, 2016
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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.  

*SPECIAL DISPATCH AND INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS SERIES

Special Dispatch No. 6293 – Rafsanjani, Hinting At Khamenei, Says: When I Realized That My Partners In The Islamic Revolution Had Become Heretics And Strayed From It, I Withdrew My Support Of Them; He Protests Against Regime’s Oppression Of Its Citizens; Khamenei Says: The Stream That Disagrees With Revolutionary Thought And Fighting The U.S. – i.e. Rafsanjani – Must Be Opposed, February 5, 2016

Special Dispatch No. 6292 – Writers In Gulf Press: Removal Of Sanctions Will Make It Easier For Iran To Keep Funding Terror, And Will Facilitate Its Plans To Harm Other Countries, February 5, 2016

Special Dispatch No. 6291 – Chechen Republic Head Ramzan Kadyrov Launches Media Campaign Against Russian Opposition, February 4, 2016

Inquiry and Analysis No. 1225 – ‘Alawi Sect Showing Signs Of Opposition To Assad Regime, February 4, 2016

Special Dispatch No. 6290 – On Eve Of Geneva Talks, Criticism Within Syrian Opposition Over Consent To Negotiating With Syrian Regime, February 3, 2016

Inquiry and Analysis No. 1224 – Khamenei Capitulates To Pragmatic Camp, Accepts JCPOA Without The Preconditions He Outlined In October 2015 Letter To President Rohani, February 3, 2016

Special Dispatch No. 6289 – Kuwaiti Columnist: State Schools In Arab Countries Should Abolish Religious Studies, February 2, 2016

Special Dispatch No. 6288 – Iraqi Journalist Comes Out Against Claim That ISIS Has Nothing To Do With Islam, February 1, 2016

Special Dispatch No. 6287 – MEMRI Scholar Tufail Ahmad In Article Marking India’s Republic Day: ‘We The People Of India’, January 31, 2016

Special Dispatch No. 6286 – MEMRI Scholar Tufail Ahmad In ‘New Age Islam’: ‘Dialogue With Pakistan Is Not India’s Necessity’, January 31, 2016

*MEMRI TV MONITOR PROJECT

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5299 – Abdel Bari Atwan: ISIS Savagery Comes from Islamic History; The West Likely to “Contain” ISIS Like It Contained the IRA and Arafat, The Internet
To read the transcript, click here.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5298 – Head of Iranian Expediency Council Rafsanjani Protests against the Regime’s Oppression of Its Citizens, The Internet
To read the transcript, click here.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5297 – Palestinian Scholar Samir Said: The Jews Have a Criminal, Satanic Nature and Are the Enemies of Mankind, Al-Majd TV (Saudi Arabia)
To read the transcript, click here.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5296 – French-Speaking ISIS Fighter Warns West to Expect Attacks that Will “Make You Forget 9/11 and Paris Attacks”, The Internet
To read the transcript, click here.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5295 – Russian Ambassador to Kuwait: We Are Moving from the Hegemony of a Single Country to a Multipolar Stage, The Internet
To read the transcript, click here.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5294 – Syrian Actor Duraid Lahham: Khamenei Has Holiness in His Soul; Long Live Iran, The Internet
To read the transcript, click here.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5293 – Hamas PM Haniya in Friday Sermon: We Are Digging Tunnels East of Gaza, Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza)
To read the transcript, click here.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5292 – Hamas Parades “Locally-Made Tank” in a Gaza Commemoration of Seven Members Killed Digging a Tunnel, Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza)
To read the transcript, click here.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5291 – Saudi Cleric Ali Al-Malki: West Tampers with Burgers, Whiskey to Induce Birth of Girls among Muslims (Archival)
To read the transcript, click here.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5290 – Frankfurt-Based Syrian Activist Dr. Malik Fndy: “This Is Why I Support the Islamic State”, The Internet
To read the transcript, click here.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 5289 – Lebanese Journalist Ziad Njeim: I Have a Natural Right to Doubt the Existence of God, OTV (Lebanon)
To read the transcript, click here.