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Speaking at a press conference here in Tehran on Wednesday, Larijani dismissed the recent hues and cries made by the West about Iran's nuclear program, and its allegations about Iran's human rights record and involvement in an alleged terrorist plot on the US soil, and said the US-led West has grown pressures and animosity towards Iran because of the growing ties of Islamic awakening in the region.
"The reason should be found in another place which is the Islamic awakening of the regional people."
"It should be known that the West is upset because of the Islamic awakening of the regional nations," Larijani added.
Meantime, the Iranian top legislator said that the regional movements will continue their move regardless of the West's pressures on Iran.
Is political Islam replacing Arab dictators?
With a victory for Islamist parties in Tunisia and Morocco, is political Islam now spreading across North Africa?
The Arab revolution spread accross the Arab world as the population demanded political change. But in Morocco protesters did not bring down the government.
The Moroccan monarch quickly responded to their demands by amending the constitution, giving parliament and the prime minister more powers, and calling for early elections, which were held last week.
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It resulted in a resounding victory for the Islamist Justice and Development party. And now, its leader Abdelilah Benkiran has become prime minister, a post that had nothing to do with democracy previously.
In the past, the king chose whomever he wanted to head the government regardless of the will of the country's 33 million people.
With the victory for the Islamists in Tunisia and the Muslim Brotherhood expected to gain political clout in Egypt, is the Arab world about to become home to political Islam? And can these parties bring an alternative to corruption and dictatorship?
Originally posted by airforce47
No government has a right to ignore the rights and lives of it's citizens in this manner.
Why US is so mad at Iran ?
Why US is so mad at Iran ?
Originally posted by Mikehawk
reply to post by hmdphantom
Because they are jealous of their freedoms.
Originally posted by WiseThinker
Beacouse there is Capital to be made from being angry at another country