Iranian mullahs hopeful about ongoing revolt against secularism in Egypt, Tunisia

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TEHRAN — Hopeful that the protests sweeping Arab lands may create an opening for hard-line Islamic forces, conservatives in Iran are taking deep satisfaction in the events in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, where secular leaders have faced large-scale uprisings.

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Conservatives in Iran ... likened the recent upheavals to Iran’s own 1979 Islamic revolution.

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Mohammad-Javad Larijani, secretary general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights ... hoped that the "anti-Islamic" government of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted in Tunisia, would be replaced by a “people’s government,” meaning one in which conservative Islamic forces would gain the upper hand, as they did when Iranian people overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing a quasi-theocracy.

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“I am more optimistic about Egypt,” Mr. Larijani said in comments published Friday on the Web site Khabar Online, which is closely linked to his brother, Ali Larijani, the Parliament speaker.

“There, Muslims are more active in political agitation and, God willing, they will establish the regime that they want,” Mohammad-Javad Larijani said.

Some here have even echoed the pan-Islamic rhetoric of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

“Today, as a result of the gifts of the Islamic revolution in Iran, freedom-loving Islamic peoples such as the peoples of Tunisia, Egypt and nearby Arab countries are standing up to their oppressive governments,” said a leading hard-line cleric, Ayatollah Mohammad-Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, who is believed to have influence with President Ahmadinejad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/world/middleeast/29iran.html

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Lucky thing Iranians aren't really Muslims... Or so some have said...

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Lucky thing Iranians aren't really Muslims... Or so some have said...

Who said that? That's ridiculous.

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Who said that? That's ridiculous.

Well, it is true that Catholics in the US are not real Catholics.

Edited January 29, 2011 by Some Old Guy

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Who said that? That's ridiculous.

No one. He's intentionally overstating.