"In UN speech, Mohammed Morsi assumes major role in Middle East" by Steven R. Hurst | Associated Press, September 27, 2012
UNITED NATIONS — Earlier Wednesday, Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, known for past fiery denunciations of the United States and Israel, spoke at length about his vision for a new world order without the ‘‘hegemony of arrogance.’’
I love it when my agenda-pushing media projects their goals and designs on the "enemy."
Of Israel, he cited what he termed the ‘‘continued threat by the uncivilized Zionists to resort to military action against our great nation.’’
The two terms do go hand-in-hand, and it is one of the few times you see the very word mentioned in my Zionist-controlled media.
Of course, most Americans have no idea what Zionism really stands for -- by design, for the educational systems in AmeriKa are more interested in indoctrinating and inculcating the youth with deceptions and diversions.
The US delegation boycotted Ahmadinejad’s speech in response to the ‘‘paranoid theories and repulsive slurs against Israel’’ included in a separate address delivered by the Iranian president on Monday....
See: Ahmadinejad disparages Israel before addressing UN
Did they translate that right?
Thousands of protesters in yellow vests emblazoned with photos of Iranian dissidents they said were killed by the Iranian regime gathered outside UN headquarters during Ahmadinejad’s speech. Speakers included former House speaker Newt Gingrich, Representative Carolyn Maloney, Democrat of New York, and former representative Patrick Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island....
Oh, the politicians joined a protest rally?
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Related: "Al-CIA-Duh" Responds to Ahmadinejad
"President Ahmadinejad makes first Cairo visit; Key differences hamper relations" by Jason Rezaian and Abigail Hauslohner | Washington Post, February 06, 2013
TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Tuesday as Iran’s first head of state to visit Egypt since the two nations ended diplomatic relations in 1980, another sign of the regional shifts triggered by the Arab Spring.
But although the countries’ ties have thawed since the overthrow of Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak, key differences — including opposing views on the conflict in Syria — make the prospect of fully restored relations distant.
Those differences were put aside momentarily Tuesday....
The countries, both of which are seeking wider regional influence, have reasons to build relations.
Their governments share opposition to Israel and intense interest in the Syrian conflict.
They ain't alone there! Just about the whole world does now save for a few slave governments.
Morsi, seeking to blaze a foreign policy trail starkly different from Mubarak’s, has vowed to make domestic and international decisions independent of pressure from Washington. Iran, a Shi’ite-majority country in a region where Sunni Islam is ascendant, is looking to forge new alliances as its traditional ones — with a disintegrating Syria and the Palestinian militant movement Hamas, which has distanced itself from Iran — falter.
Interesting how Morsi didn't start seeing major criticism and protests in my paper until he stood up for Gaza.
The toppling of Arab dictators and rise of Islamist political parties has also cost Iran some of its regional cachet as a Muslim country willing to stand up to the West, said Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council in Washington....
Think Iraqi National Congress and Ahmed Chalabi, readers.
And has it? Iraq is much more friendly, Egypt is friendlier, somehow having allies is costing them? Again, we know what axe he is grinding, this head of a Washington-created exile group.
‘‘The street isn’t as far removed from the state anymore,’’ Parsi said, referring to the democratic election of leaders such as Morsi, who long held senior positions in the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni organization. ‘‘So far, the rise of these Islamic parties has not lived up to Iran’s hopes or expectations.’’
Or USrael's.
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So much for comity:
"Division at Islamic summit; Syrian civil war puts Sunnis, Shi’ites at odds" by Hamza Hendawi | Associated Press, February 07, 2013
CAIRO — An Islamic summit that opened in Egypt on Wednesday lay bare the multiple divisions within the Muslim and Arab worlds, with conflicting approaches to the Syrian civil war exposing the Sunni-Shi’ite sectarian fault lines that have torn the region for years.
I've made it clear why I no longer buy the sectarian cover lie for western intelligence agency slaughter, and need I remind you again these people have intermarried and lived together for centuries.
Egypt’s Islamist leader sharply criticized President Bashar Assad’s embattled regime in his address to the two-day summit, though he hedged his comments by only making an indirect call for the Syrian leader to step down.
The Syrian government ‘‘must read history and grasp its immortal message: It is the people who remain and those who put their personal interests before those of their people will inevitably go,’’ Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said.
Good message for AmeriKan leaders, too.
The conflict in Syria has been deeply divisive in the Middle East, pitting a largely Sunni opposition against a regime dominated by Assad’s Alawite minority — a heterodox offshoot of Shi’ite Islam. Sunni nations such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey have thrown their weight behind the rebels, while Shi’ite heavyweight Iran is Syria’s closest regional ally.
Thrown their weight and arm$ (pun intended).
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose Shi’ite-led government has been ambivalent about the Syrian conflict, offered a more cautious approach. In power for nearly seven years, Maliki is believed to be worried that his grip on power could weaken if the Sunni majority in neighboring Syria succeeds in overthrowing Assad and a new Sunni leadership takes power in Damascus.
You know, one of those selfish leaders that put personal interest over their people.
Gee, what happened to that liberation, huh?
Maliki faces a wave of protests against his rule in Iraq’s Sunni provinces and has had to fight Sunni extremists linked to Al Qaeda for most of his time in office.
CIA-Duh has to destabilize him, otherwise ties between Iraq and Iran can smoothly proceed.
‘‘Syria suffers from violence, killings, and sabotage,’’ he said and called on the summit to ‘‘find an exit and peaceful solution for its conflict.’’
Good luck with the EUSraeli empire involved.
He called on member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the summit’s organizer, to unite against terror, suggesting that he, like the regime in Damascus, views the rebels fighting the Syrian regime as terrorists.
Most of the world, or at least those that care to know and inform themselves, know this.
At least 60,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, where the rebel side is heavy on Muslim militants, many of them linked to Al Qaeda. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been displaced, and many of them have found refuge in neighboring nations Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon.
See: Taking Refuge in This Post
Not really.
Later on Wednesday, another Syria-related event reflected the divisive impact of the conflict there.
Saudi Arabia stayed out of a gathering of Morsi and the presidents of Turkey and Iran on the sidelines of the summit to discuss Syria. Saudi Crown Prince Salman, who was heading his country’s delegation to the OIC summit, left Egypt just before the mini-summit was held. Morsi has been trying to form a working group of the four countries to address the Syria crisis. But Saudi Arabia has only attended the ‘‘quartet’s’’ first meeting several months ago.
Egyptian officials insist that the Saudis have not pulled out, and an Egyptian presidential spokesman said Salman left because of other, personal engagements, but it is widely suspected that the kingdom has quit the group because they could not see the point of working with Iran....
US tool was told to quit.
Related:
"Saudi Arabia has financed a large purchase of infantry arms from Croatia and sent them to antigovernment fighters in Syria"
I'll bet that got US approval, too.
Morsi has worked for a thaw in ties with Iran, with which Egypt cut ties following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The Egyptian leader gave a warm welcome Tuesday to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon his arrival in Cairo for the summit.
In a sign of Tehran’s hopes for better relations, Ahmadinejad offered to provide Egypt with ‘‘a big credit line’’ to help salvage the country’s faltering economy. ‘‘If the two peoples cooperate and join forces, they can become an important element,’’ Ahmadinejad told the state-run Al-Ahram daily.
Egypt’s government had no immediate reaction to Ahmadinejad’s offer.
And I believe that is the last I've seen of it in my war paper.
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Also see: Egypt’s Morsi warns Assad: ‘Your time won’t be long’
"Syrian forces, rebels clash near Turkey" by Zeina Karam | Associated Pres, September 19, 2012
BEIRUT — On the diplomatic front, a spokesman for President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt said Morsi told Iran’s foreign minister in a meeting Tuesday in Cairo that relations between the two countries were being hindered by Tehran’s support for Syria’s regime.
Spokesman Yasser Ali said Morsi told the Iranian minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, that as president he cannot ignore the fact that public opinion in Egypt is overwhelmingly against the Syrian regime, which he said ‘‘uses harsh language and violence against people.’’
The two met as part of a Morsi-sponsored Syria peace initiative dubbed the ‘‘Islamic Quartet,’’ bringing together Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt — all supporters of the Syrian rebellion — with Iran.
Salehi, whose country is a crucial ally to the Assad regime, is traveling to Syria on Wednesday, where he will meet with Assad and other Syrian officials. Iran has provided strong backing to the Syrian leadership since the uprising began in March 2011....
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When Egypt was good, before Gaza.
Also see:
Speculation abounds over Ahmadinejad’s next move
Suit exposes feud in Iran’s politics
Iran’s supreme leader warns bickering politicians
Iran MPs summon Ahmadi-Nejad over economy
See: Banking on Ahmadinejad
Better not
Yeah, turns out Ahmadinejad was the moderate(?).
