Syria Accuses Egypt of Inciting Bloodshed as Delegation Walks Out amid Morsi Criticisms
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem accused Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi of using his speech at the Non-Aligned summit in Tehran on Thursday to incite further bloodshed in Syria.
Morsi's speech condemning the regime in Damascus, prompting a walkout by the Syrian delegation, amounted to "interference in Syria's internal affairs and ... incites continued bloodshed in Syria," Muallem said, quoted on state television.
Syria's delegation to the summit in Tehran walked out when Morsi began an address in which he referred to the "oppressive" Syrian regime, official Egyptian media reported.
"The Syrian delegation withdrew as President Morsi began discussing the Syrian file," the official MENA news agency reported.
Morsi, Egypt's first Islamist president was in Tehran to hand over rotating leadership of the movement to Iran, Syria's closest regional ally.
He was the first Egyptian leader to set foot in Iran since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
"The revolution in Egypt is the cornerstone for the Arab Spring, which started days after Tunisa and then it was followed by Libya and Yemen and now the revolution in Syria against its oppressive regime," Morsi told the gathering of chiefs of nonaligned states that included Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"The Palestinian and Syrian people are actively seeking freedom, dignity and human justice," he said, adding that "Egypt is ready to work with all to stop the bloodshed."
Morsi's description of the conflict in Syria as a "revolution" against oppressive masters jars with the narrative given by Tehran and Damascus that the uprising is separate from the Arab Spring, and consists largely of foreign-backed "terrorists" acting on behalf of the United States and regional countries.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have several times hailed the Arab Spring as an "Islamic Wakening" inspired by Iran's own 1979 Islamic revolution. Syria, they said, was a different case.
Cairo has several times voiced support for the Syrian insurgency, seeing it as a continuation of the uprisings that changed regimes in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Morsi, who comes from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, was elected to power because of the revolution in his country.
30 August 2012, 12:40
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The conference of the " Misaligned", what a collection of despots?
By the way, in keeping with the line "nothing is happening in Syria, Ahmadinejad did not mention Syria in his speech!
30 August 2012, 13:05
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To HELL with ASSad's goons!
President Morsi's speech was excellent.
Love Live a Free Syra!
30 August 2012, 19:10
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It's the end o the month and so Nasrallah is handing out his dwindling checks so people have to compete extra hard to get their share...one of the ways is they create multiple accounts on naharnet to dislike any sensible comment that so much as remotely threatens their volatile existence...
30 August 2012, 14:38
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The butcher Assad accuses anyone who dare criticizes him..he's days are numbered and he knows it.
30 August 2012, 17:24
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you gota realize that your 9 red votes are from FT/mowaten/karim_m1... they are all one single person.
30 August 2012, 19:07
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Whoever it is... He is going through a loooooot of trouble for not much... clearly a retard!
30 August 2012, 14:39
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tahaluf el akalliyet is finished,it was a sionist american kissingerist creation.
30 August 2012, 15:04
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"Muallem accused Egyptian President(...)to incite further bloodshed in Syria"
That's a joke right? Moallem should return the accusation to his own Bashar! This is what happens when you have a totalitarian regime that supresses its people during decades. He had the chance to change his country's future but did not seize it unfortunately...
So now, Moallem can "accuse" the Egyptians, the Israelis, the French, the USA, the Saudis, the Turks, you name it! But at the end of the day, the only ones to blame are Bashar and his greedy clan! What goes around...
30 August 2012, 15:38
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President Morsi has some guts! Way to go, I am starting to like the guy
31 August 2012, 00:36
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The Syrian government has killed more Syrians than Israel ever did. Ask the people in the revolution who the real enemy is.
30 August 2012, 16:43
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i see too many thumbs down here for the M14s from M8s,,yalla!!M8s!!take advantage of your remaining days,,,fill this site with your comments and sooner than later,,you,ll regret why you sided with thugs and murderers,,,,
31 August 2012, 04:33
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No Tony...mentally demented BSThrower has nothing to do in life let alone has no friends finds amusement in creating many fictitious aliases to support his ill minded posts. Pathetic.....absolutely!
30 August 2012, 17:22
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Morsi might be no Saint, but he's a million times holier than Assad or Aoun in Lebanon for that matter.
30 August 2012, 17:56
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mni7a lal Morsi!!
The regime evidently cannot crush the uprising, and so the affair will go on until the former ultimately collapses—whatever the destruction along the way.
Les gars que vous soyez chrétiens, musulmans, druzes, juifs ou athées, vous devez s'opposer à ce régime barbare. Ce régime crée les conflits pour maintenir son pouvoir, ce régime crée le fanatisme, ce régime détient des prisonnier libanais depuis des décennies, ce régime s'attache à la chaise même s'il faut exterminer la population entière.
30 August 2012, 18:01
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Arrêter de dire que ce régime protège les minorités. c'est FAUX! absolument FAUX! les minorités ont vécus dans cette régions depuis des siècles et des siècles et ils n'ont besoin que de la liberté et la justice pour vivre avec leurs voisins!
Si vous êtes chrétiens vous devez s'opposer à l’oppression car c'est votre rôle de protéger la liberté TOTALE et assurer la justice!
Si vous êtes libanais vous sauriez que votre économie dépend en grande partie de la situation en Syrie et puisque ce régime est condamné forcément à l’effondrement, alors préparez le terrain et soyez tous contre ce régime pour récolter les fruits après!
30 August 2012, 21:01
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I see BSThrower pulled out Motormouth from his hat of aliases...What pathetic low life.....just like their Gods aka HA!
