Mohammad Reza Naqdi, commander of the Basij, July 6, 2013

Author

Name of Author

Mohammad Reza Naqdi

Body

“Had [former Egyptian president Mohammed] Mursi not been deceived by the US and had he started campaign against Israel, he would have attained a higher and better status than Jamal Abdel Nasser among Egyptians and today people would have defeated those who planned the coup against him and not only in Egypt, but in all Muslim countries large crowds would have come out to defend him.”“Basij Commander: Mursi’s Fall Result of Trusting US,” Fars News Agency, July 6, 2013, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920415001056.

Rhetoric Category

Anti-American

Anti-Israel

Threat

IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)

Location: Eisenhower Theater

Tuesday January 27, 2026 7:30p.m.

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Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.

Mohammad Reza Naqdi, commander of the Basij, July 6, 2013

Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust