Iran's FARS news fabricated interview with Morsy?
An interview with newly elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy that claimed that Egypt would draw closer to Iran and reevaluate the Camp David treaty may have been fabricated by Iran's FARS news. [A] spokesman for Morsy told Egypt's official MENA news agency Monday that "Morsy did not give any interview to Fars and everything this agency has published is baseless."Read the whole thing.
The remarks Fars quoted in the interview contrasted sharply with promises Morsy made during his presidential campaign and in other interviews, in which he pledged to honor Egypt's international treaties, including its peace treaty with Israel.
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Notably, while Fars reported that the Egyptian president-elect said he planned to review the Camp David agreement, in a June 16 interview with Kuwaiti newspaper al-Kuwaitiah, later published in Persian on Iran's ASRIran news website, Morsy promised to "adhere to the agreement with Israel".
In the same al-Kuwaitiah interview, Morsy denied as "pure imagination and slander" that the Muslim Brotherhood has links with Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah.
"We respect the right of the Palestinian people in their resistance against the Israeli occupier, and we do not see anything wrong with that," Morsy told al-Kuwaitiah. "However, we will never stand with any forces that threaten the Persian Gulf countries."
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Labels: Egyptian elections, Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, FARS News, Iran, Mohammed Morsy, Muslim Brotherhood
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:15 AM
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"However, we will never stand with any forces that threaten the Persian Gulf countries."
Sunnis may despise the Jews but they sound like they're getting for real sick and tired of the big brothers of Persia. We may not have arrived at a "what do you mean we kimosabe" moment or we may have already moved past it.
Now I know where the word "farce" comes from.
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