The MEMRI Weekly: January 22-29, 2021
January 29, 2021
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.
MEMRI REPORTS
Hizbullah s Widespread Campaign To Commemorate Qassem Soleimani Sparks Criticism In Lebanon
January 25, 2021 | By O. Peri
The Lebanese Hizbullah took a series of measures and held numerous events to mark the first anniversary of the death of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Qods Force in Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy-commander of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in Iraq, who were assassinated in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad airport in January 2020. In addition to statements, interviews and articles extolling Soleimani and Al-Muhandis in Hizbullah s media, the organization put up posters of the two in various parts of the country, erected monuments in their honor and commemorated them in various other ways.