Ayatollah Khatami Lauds Egypt's Anti-Zionist Stance

In his sermon today, Tehran's interim Friday prayer leader, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, praised the anti-Zionist stand of the Egyptian nation.

Khatami said that the glorious presence of the Egyptian people in Al-Tahrir Square is the sign of importance attached to protecting the Egyptian revolution, and added that the Egyptian nation demands the prosecution of regime officials who committed crimes during the era of the former repressive Mubarak regime.

Khatami then referred to the U.S. threat to sever aid to Egypt if they adopt an anti-Zionist stand, stressing that the U.S. is concerned with the endangerment of Israeli interests in Egypt.

On the situation in Bahrain, Khatami said that the Bahraini nation's resistance to the Al-Khalifa regime's greed is worthy of praise.

He also pointed out that the seizure of the Gaza-bound aid ship Al-Karama is another scandalous measure by the Zionist regime, and that international organizations have yet to react to this "terrorist act of piracy" committed by Israel.

Khatami also noted that the British administration's phone-hacking scandal, and the subsequent death of the whistleblower that revealed this crime, is another nail in the coffin of the West's liberal democracy, which fails to even comply with the rights of its own citizens, and turns murder into a norm in Britain.

Source: Irib.ir, July 22, 2011.