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Iran said on Monday it hopes mass anti-government protests in Egypt will lead to the emergence of a more Islamic Middle East that will stand up to its enemies, Israel and the United States.
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Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast, setting out Iran's official stance, said the people of Egypt and Tunisia had left foreign powers "bewildered" by rising up against U.S.-backed governments.
"With (the region) assuming a new shape and the developments under way, (we hope) we would be able to see a Middle East that is Islamic and powerful and also that withstands the Zionist occupiers," he told a weekly news conference, using Iran's term for Israel, which it does not recognise.
Iran has praised the Egyptian protests, saying they echo the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah.
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Iran, the only country in the region with no diplomatic ties with Egypt, hopes that fall of the Egyptian government will lead to an Islamist takeover and boost its political power in the region, analysts say.
"A shift of power in Egypt from a U.S.-linked government to an Islamist regime will strengthen Iran," said political analyst Ahmad Ziaie. "The balance will switch in favour of Iran."
Mehmanparast said the emergence of "popular" governments would usher in an era of greatly improved relations with Iran.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he feared Egypt might adopt an Islamic system like Iran's, putting the peace treaty with Israel in jeopardy.
Netanyahu said his real fear was that "an organised Islamist body" might seize power in Egypt, an apparent reference to the banned opposition Muslim Brotherhood which has links to the Iranian-backed Palestinian group Hamas that controls the Gaza Strip.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said protests in Egypt and the overthrow of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali "proved that the global arrogance's era of domination and control of the region has come to an end", state television reported on Monday. "Global arrogance" is Iran's term for the United States.
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Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast, setting out Iran's official stance, said the people of Egypt and Tunisia had left foreign powers "bewildered" by rising up against U.S.-backed governments.
"With (the region) assuming a new shape and the developments under way, (we hope) we would be able to see a Middle East that is Islamic and powerful and also that withstands the Zionist occupiers," he told a weekly news conference, using Iran's term for Israel, which it does not recognise.
Iran has praised the Egyptian protests, saying they echo the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah.
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Iran, the only country in the region with no diplomatic ties with Egypt, hopes that fall of the Egyptian government will lead to an Islamist takeover and boost its political power in the region, analysts say.
"A shift of power in Egypt from a U.S.-linked government to an Islamist regime will strengthen Iran," said political analyst Ahmad Ziaie. "The balance will switch in favour of Iran."
Mehmanparast said the emergence of "popular" governments would usher in an era of greatly improved relations with Iran.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he feared Egypt might adopt an Islamic system like Iran's, putting the peace treaty with Israel in jeopardy.
Netanyahu said his real fear was that "an organised Islamist body" might seize power in Egypt, an apparent reference to the banned opposition Muslim Brotherhood which has links to the Iranian-backed Palestinian group Hamas that controls the Gaza Strip.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said protests in Egypt and the overthrow of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali "proved that the global arrogance's era of domination and control of the region has come to an end", state television reported on Monday. "Global arrogance" is Iran's term for the United States.
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