Tue May 31, 2011 3:32PM
Ali Akbar Velayati, a top advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
A top advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has described Saudi Arabia's deployment of its troops to Bahrain as a “miscalculation.”
In an interview with the website of the Leader's Office, Ali-Akbar Velayati urged Riyadh to think more about its “real interests,” reported the Mehr news agency.
He further touched upon the signs which show the Islamic nature of the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.
“We need to pay attention to protesters' slogans; the slogans that [former Egyptian President] Gamal Abdel Nasser chanted during his rule and his allies in Syria, Libya, Sudan, Iraq and elsewhere were all Arabic slogans,” said Velayati.
However, now we are witnessing Islamic rather than Arabic ideals growing, he added.
Velayati stressed that the regional uprisings have been inspired by the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran despite efforts by the West to say it is otherwise.
Velayati underscored that Iran has been the “flag-bearer” of Islamic awakening.
“Americans have been trying to impose political and economic sanctions on Iran, but all of a sudden, their closest Arab ally (Egypt) announces it wants to establish relations with Iran, and after that allows Iranian warships to cross the Suez Canal,” he said.
“These are not good signs for Americans. The White House had invested in Hosni Mubarak's regime for more than thirty years” but to no avail, he added.
NN/AKM/MGH
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