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Volume 14, Issue 86
“I am not a prophet, nor have I ever been; but I know that once this regime ends, the situation will be much better not only for the Iranian people, but for the region, and for the world. The Islamic Regime-and this must be emphasized- even ruined Islam. We see it now in Iran the people are no longer afraid and shouldn’t be afraid of what tomorrow brings. The fact that they have lost their fear of the regime is, in my opinion, a very good thing, and there are things that we can do to advance the revolution.”
Mahmoud Moradkhani, nephew of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in a Channel 14 Israeli news interview, (taken from Paris) December 15, 2022
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Why is the US media ignoring the Iranian protests?
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By Sarah Stern | December 15, 2022
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Less than five minutes. That is the amount of broadcast time that NBC News with Lester Holt has devoted to the protests rocking the streets of Iran since the Sept. 16 murder of Mahsa Amini by the “morality police” because a few strands of hair were showing beneath her hijab.
This lack of coverage is nothing short of outrageous.
87 million Americans watch NBC News in order to remain informed citizens. The network’s silence is doing a tremendous disservice to those who have been tortured, raped, shot, and hung by the deeply evil Iranian regime.
Read more here
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From the halls of Congress and college campuses to corporate board rooms and social and mainstream media, antisemitism from the left, right, the Black community, and the Islamic community is metastasizing with no end in sight. On the heels of the publication of historian Richard Landes’ new book, Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (Antisemitism in America), Landes and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Executive Director, Asaf Romirowsky, join us for a discussion of antisemitism in America today, why all Americans should be gravely concerned, and what we should be doing to fight this dangerous hatred.
About the Speaker: Richard Landes Ph.D. Richard Landes was a professor of history at Boston University and is now an independent scholar in Jerusalem. He also chairs the Council of Scholars at SPME. His work focuses on apocalyptic and millennial beliefs at the turn of the first and second millennium, 1000 and 2000 CE. He coined the term Pallywood in 2003 while investigating the Muhammad al Durah affair and maintains a blog critical of western journalism, The Augean Stables. His latest book is: Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (Academic Studies Press, 2022). He tweets at @richard_landes.
About the Speaker: Asaf Romirowsky Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA). Romirowsky is also a senior nonresident research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) and a Professor [Affiliate] at the University of Haifa. Trained as a Middle East historian he holds a Ph.D. in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from King's College London, UK, and has published widely on various aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict and American foreign policy in the Middle East, as well as on Israeli and Zionist history.
Romirowsky is co-author of Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief and a contributor to The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel. Recently, he co-edited Word Crimes: Reclaiming the Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a special issue of the journal Israel Studies.
Romirowsky’s publicly-engaged scholarship has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, The American Interest, The New Republic, The Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Ynet, and Tablet among other online and print media outlets.
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Nexus of Evil: Russo-Iranian Collusion and the Growing Danger of War
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December 21, 2022 - 12 PM ET
As Russia executes its immoral war against Ukraine, it has become apparent that over 300 of the drones that the Russian army has used to rain down over the Ukrainian civilian and military infrastructures have been manufactured in Iran and sold to Moscow. We also have learned that the Iranians are now manufacturing drones on Russian soil. Just this week, National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said that the relationship between Iran and Russia is developing into a “full-grown partnership.” He added that “the support is flowing both ways”, and that Moscow offers “an unprecedented level of military and technical support” including collaborating between the two nations “on areas like weapons development and training.” There is also a growing concern that “Russia is providing Iran with advanced military components", which could include highly sophisticated air missile defense systems such as the Russian S-400, which is considered the most capable air missile defense system yet invented.
As these two adversaries to US national security interests develop deeper partnerships, this can only empower them and increase their appetite for war, threatening to destabilize the entire Middle East and of course, posing an existential threat to the state of Israel.
About the Speaker: Dr. Stephen J. Blank is Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. He has published over 900 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian, U.S., Asian, and European military and foreign policies, testified frequently before Congress on Russia, China, and Central Asia, consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency, major think tanks and foundations, chaired major international conferences in the U.S. and in Florence; Prague; and London, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the U.S. and abroad.
Blank has advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group. He has published or edited 15 books, most recently Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Politics in Command (London: Global Markets Briefing, 2006). He has also published Natural Allies. Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005).
He is currently completing a book entitled Light From the East: Russia’s Quest for Great Power Status in Asia to be published in 2014 by Ashgate. Dr. Blank is also the author of The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin’s Commissariat of Nationalities (Greenwood, 1994); and the co-editor of The Soviet Military and the Future (Greenwood, 1992)
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