Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Thursday that the democracy the US speaks of is that “we saw in Egypt in the Tahrir square, the democracy of horses and camels and that of “baltagiya” (gangs) attacking the peaceful Muslim protestors.
Addressing a group of military commanders in Babolsar, Mazandaran province, Larijani pointed out that the gangs’ attack on the Egyptian people in the Tahrir square, describing these acts as criminal. He added “such attacks come in context of “US Democracy” because it surely does not want true democracy and freedom to the Egyptian people.”
Larijani said the Islamic Republic of Iran will remain to be proud as always, owing to the braveness and sacrifices of the martyrs which was also a boost to the Iranian people to stand in face of the US hegemony.” He further assured that the dictatorships and tyrant regimes want to keep the people from seeing the truth and uncovering their (the regimes) realities.
Larijani further addressed the US government “You have antagonized the Iranian people for the past 32 years, but the Iranian people rejected all the threats and temptations and held tight onto the principles of the revolution, by that overcome all obstacles.”
“I’d like to ask the US government whether or not they wanted to build a “democracy tower” in Iraq? Have you forgotten that you are bogged down in Afghanistan quagmire?” he questioned.
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Note: if I posted this short news item about Larijani’s position concerning the events in Egypt, it is because I consider Ali Larijani as one of the most interesting and possibly promising politicians in Iran. I think that it is a good idea to keep a close look on his statements because Larijani’s political career is far from completed and that he might well play an important role in Iran’s future.
Saker,
You are absolutely right about Ali Larijani being very smart, capable, impressive and a very good politician…
The Larijani clan is composed of 4 brothers, all with key government positions…
The Larijani family is originally…, a Jewish/Bazaar merchant family and Ali Larijani is linked to Mossad…unfortunately….
Can’t win them all!!!
Joe
The West will respond by saying he’d be more credible if pro democracy protesters hadn’t been brutally repressed and tortured by the Iranian state in 2009.
I know all the arguments about Guccis and colour revolutions. And it’s quite possible that Ahmadinejad did win the election, even if there was an element of fraud. In which case the Greens were protesting against democracy. But the Islamic Republic tortures people just as Egypt does so you’ll forgive me if I give Larjani only two cheers.
@Joe: Ali Larijani is linked to Mossad
You are talking about a guy who is the spiritual pupil of Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari and who is one of the two representatives of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the Supreme National Security Council.
What’s your evidence?
Saker,
“Spiritual pupil of Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari and who is one of the two representatives of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the Supreme National Security Council.”
That makes him all the more valuable to the Hubris….LOL
Let’s say that my source is rock solid…No one has any “evidence”…he will be dead meat…
Cheers,
Joe
@Joe: well, I know that Ayataollah Mohammad Baqer Kharrazi has reportedly said that Larijani comes from a Jewish family. Now,
if we assume that Kharrazi really said that and
if we assume that he words were correctly reported and
if we also assume that all those of Jewish extraction are Sayanim and
if we assume that the Iranian security services would let a Mossad agent to the highest positions in the state
then we would have to conclude that Larijani has links to the Mossad.
But these are not assumptions I am willing to make because as Marcello Truzzi used to say, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof”.
Mubarak’s real partners being outed and fleeing like rats as the US/Israeli-backed regime in Cairo falters….
Hussein Salem caught in Dubai with $500m
Salem is a partner with Israeli businessman Yosef Maiman in EMG, which supplies gas to Israel.
Hussein Salem, an Egyptian partner of Israeli businessman Yosef Maiman in the East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG), which has long term agreements to supply natural gas to Israel, has been caught in Dubai with $500 million in cash in his possession, according to agency reports this morning.
It was reported yesterday that Salem and his family had fled Egypt because of the turmoil in the country. Arab media report that Salem himself went to Dubai, while his family left for an unknown destination. Salem is considered close to the Egyptian regime, particularly to President Hosni Mubarak’s son Gamal Mubarak, who has reportedly left Egypt for London.
Salem owns 28% of EMG, which has supplied gas to Israel since June 2008.
Salem is one of the most mysterious business people in Egypt, and as far as is known he has never been interviewed in the Western press. In Egypt I he is known as the owner of a hotel chain, and as the confidant of Mubarak and his family. His business tie with Maiman was formed when they were partners in the construction of a refinery in Alexandria at the end of the 1970s.
Maiman sold his holding in the refinery at the beginning of the decade because of internal; criticism in Egypt, and started to focus on the export of natural gas to Israel. When EMG was founded in 2000, Salem owned 65%, Maiman owned 25%, and the Egyptian government owned the rest. Yesterday morning, in an official press release, Maiman said that exports of gas to Israel by EMG would continue as usual.
In July 2007, Salem sold 12% of EMG to Sam Zell and David Fisher of the US at a valuation of $2.2 billion, and four months later sold 25% to the Thai national oil company PTT at a valuation of $2 billion. The rest of the shares in the company are now owned by Maiman (20.6%), Israeli institutions (4.3%), and the government of Egypt through government gas company EGAS (10%).
Cheney comes to the defense of Mubarak… Fascists do stick together. Mubarak, Berlusconi, Cheney, Blair, KSA, Jordan, Libya, Sarkozy, etc.: the prison cannot be dark or deep enough…
But these are not assumptions I am willing to make because as Marcello Truzzi used to say, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof”…
I agree with that wholeheartedly…but no one has any proof whatsoever…
Suffice it to say again, my source is impeccable, and is in the know…
Cheers,
Joe
It can be taken as read that most of the more obnoxious oligarchs will be safely out of the country long before a government that represents the Egyptian people comes to power. All the money they’ve stolen from the Egyptian people will end up in London, Switzerland, New York or offshore, if it isn’t already. Low level thugs may be brought to justice but the big ones never.
@Joe: .but no one has any proof whatsoever…
Suffice it to say again, my source is impeccable, and is in the know…
And I am not dismissing what he says either. I myself have had, a few times in the past, to make statement backed only by the credibility of sources I knew and could not name, so I understand your position very well, and I sincerely thank you for sharing the info regardless of my skepticism
Cheers!