AFP,
The White House Friday criticized Iran for calling for an Islamic regime in Egypt, saying Tehran was in no position to make such "remarkable" comments after recently crushing its own uprising.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomenei referred to the Egyptian situation in Friday prayers, calling President Hosni Mubarak, a ""servant" of Israel and the United States.
He called the current wave of Arab revolts an "earthquake" triggered by the 1979 Iranian revolution and said that if successful, they would lead to failure of US policies in the region.
"It is remarkable that Iran would make a statement given their actions when it came to their people exercising the same rights that people are exercising now in Cairo," Gibbs said.
Gibbs was referring to mass protests in Iran following the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a June 2009 election that opponents said was rigged.
Tehran severed diplomatic ties with Cairo in 1980.
