This clip is a compilation of footage from Friday demonstrations in Baluchestan on January 27 and February 3, 2023. The videos were posted on posted on Iranian dissident journalist Masih Alinejad’s Twitter account and other social media outlets. In the clip, demonstrators can be seen chanting such slogans as “Our tables are empty, Khamenei is a killer,” “Death to Khamenei!,” “Curse upon Khomeini!” “Death to the Basijis!” “Death to the IRGC!” “I will kill whoever killed my brother!” “Death to the oppressor, whether it is the Shah or the Leader!” The clip also includes footage from a car driving through a street, where several citizens are seen arrested, some pushed into cars and footage from a demonstration, where security personnel open fire at demonstrators, and victims with gunshot wounds are seen being removed from the area. Another video includes footage from a driving car, in which a man with his hands tied above his head to a lamppost is flogged in front of dozens of bystanders on the curb of a busy street. One of the videos is recorded by a man who says he is in Surjah, Baluchistan. He tells the viewers that they are under siege and that there are close to 1,600 IRGC cars near the village of Suraj, and a helicopter could be seen flying in the sky.

Miami, Florida imam Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi of the Masjid As Sunnah An Nabawiyya North Miami discussed the recent Quran-burning protest attended by Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan in his January 27, 2023 Friday sermon. He said that Christians do not care whether Jesus is ridiculed or the Bible or Torah are burned, therefore they do not understand why Muslims are angry when the Quran is burned. Kablawi added that the Christians want the Muslims to be just like they are and continued to claim that Christians burn the Bible themselves if they need fire for their barbecue, for instance. He said that it was Hitler, “whom they taught us [was among] the worst enemies in history, because he killed them” had burned books and added: “You come and you cry over the Holocaust, and you take advantage over every situation, and yet you do a Holocaust for the last seventy plus years to the Palestinians in Palestine.” Dr. Kablawi, who is a dentist, immigrated to the United States from Jordan. The sermon was streamed live on the Masjid As Sunnah An Nabawiyya North Miami’s Facebook page.

Lebanese MP Samy Gemayel, leader of the Lebanese Kataeb Party said that the time has come to realize that Hizbullah is an “Islamic republic” with foreign funding, weapons, and ideology and that it is “trying to get its hands on the pluralistic Lebanese Republic,” in a February 3, 2023 address during the party’s 32nd general assembly that was posted on Kataeb News on YouTube. He said that Hizbullah is “trying to kill the spirit of the Lebanese Republic,” and that Lebanon has moved from a culture of life, love, and openness to a culture of death, martyrdom, and wars. Gemayel said that if a “divorce” with Hizbullah is necessary, that is what should be done, and he added: “We will not live in Lebanon like second-degree citizens.” He explained that he was not speaking only as a Christian, but as a Lebanese citizen. Samy Gemayel, is the nephew of Bachir Gemayel, a Lebanese President-elect who was assassinated by a Syrian terrorist in 1982.

Lebanese politician Omar Harfouch said in a January 23, 2023 show on Al-Jadeed TV (Lebanon) that denying Lebanese citizenship to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is a “racist and inhuman” apartheid policy. He said that four generations of Palestinians have been born in Lebanon yet remain undocumented even though Lebanon is all they know. He also said that they have no country or identity of their own.

On a show that aired on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas-Gaza) on January 27, 2023, Hamas TV host Raji Al-Hams saluted Khairy Alqam, the terrorist who earlier that night carried out the Jerusalem synagogue massacre that left seven Israelis dead. He said that Alqam brought “happiness and joy” to the Palestinians and that through him, Allah satisfied the Palestinians’ lust for revenge. Al-Hams added: “We salute and cherish you, oh hero, oh martyrdom-seeking mujahid!”

In an interview that was posted to the Lebanon On YouTube channel on January 10, 2023, Lebanese politician Ibrahim Murad, the President of the Universal Syriac Union Party, called for armed resistance against Hizbullah. He said that political methods will achieve nothing and that Hizbullah needs to be besieged in its own areas. Murad also said that the only solution to the situation in Lebanon would involve global powers coming in and implementing the U.N. resolutions, but that if this does not happen, the Lebanese people are “destined to emigrate or live under a dictatorship.” He elaborated that the global powers would only intervene if Lebanon had “a real opposition,” and that such a revolt would require the shedding of blood. In addition, he said that he is personally ready to take up arms if his honor is violated or if he is turned into a dhimmi because he is Christian. Moreover, he said that “traitors and collaborators, and the people who starved us, impoverished us, and killed our children and our relatives in the hospitals” should be hanged from electric poles or dragged behind cars. On January 16, 2023, Murad was taken in for questioning by Lebanon’s authorities for his remarks.

Turkish journalist Hamza Tekin said in a January 14, 2023 show on Russia Today TV that Turkey is ridding itself of its Western patronage and forming its own alliances. He said that this is why Greece is “allowed” to have Russian S-300 missile systems, while Turkey is not. He said that the U.S. will pay a “high price” for its conflict with Turkey and that Turkey will only accept Finland and Sweden into NATO if it gets something in return. Tekin also said that Turkey will reveal its manned and unmanned fighter jets this year and that it will no longer need American F-16 jets or the missiles and bombs that go with it.

In an interview posted on the BreakThrough News YouTube channel on December 7, 2022, PFLP plane hijacker Leila Khaled told American journalist Rania Khalek that resistance and armed struggle are the “duty” of the Palestinian people and the “mainstream” means of resistance. She said that the Palestinians cannot just pray to God for justice, but “we have to do it by ourselves.” When asked about accusations that she is a terrorist, she replied that Israel’s “occupation” is “the peak of terrorism” and that the Palestinians do not care if they are called terrorists.

On January 17, 2023, IRINN TV (Iran) aired a report about the Martyr Shafiee Exercise held by the IRGC Navy in the Persian Gulf near Iran’s Hormozgan and Bushehr provinces. The drill involved cruise missiles, combat drones, classified “smart unmanned underwater systems,” amphibious assaults, and more. The report also featured footage from the drill. In addition, IRGC Navy Commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said: “We are using new tactics and military equipment to combat the enemy beyond our region.”

American writer Ron Unz said in an interview aired on Channel 4 (Iran) on January 18, 2023, that “Holocaust worship,” which he said is also known as “Holocaustianity,” has replaced traditional religion in American society. He said that “Jewish-dominated” Hollywood is partly responsible for this, and when asked by show host Arash Drya-Bandari (also known as Blake Archer Williams) about how many Jews “actually” died in the Holocaust, Unz replied that the number was no more than a “couple hundred thousand.” He also said that once the American people start to doubt the Holocaust, they will start to doubt other things that were “suppressed” by the media, such as the JFK assassination or the events of 9/11.The MEMRI Lantos Project exposes anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the Middle East region and Middle Eastern communities in the West with the aim of supporting legislation and educating media and the general public.