Egypt protests draw mixed reaction in region

Egypt protests draw mixed reaction in region

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Saudi Arabia slammed protesters in Egypt as "infiltrators" who seek to destabilize their country Saturday while an Iranian official called on Egypt to "abide by the rightful demands of the nation" and avoid violent reactions

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This article focuses primarily on Saudi Arabia and Iran, with mention of a conversation between King Abdullah and Honsi Mubarak.

King Abdullah, from what I can gather is not even in Saudi Arabia (see additional thread), but there seems to be no mention of this. (Saudi King Arrives in Morocco After Treatment in U.S)

Interesting to me is that there is no mention of the Saudi Arabia protests reported by a Tehran paper (see related thread).

More details about the Iranian reaction:

"Iran expects Egyptian officials to listen to the voice of their Muslim people, respond to their rightful demands and refrain from exerting violence by security forces and police against an Islamic wave of awareness that has spread through the country in form of a popular movement,"the state-run Press TV quoted Mehmanparast as saying.

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arabia and iran, your next!

reply to post by ~Lucidity


Many Saudis were in the US for a week long visit that they cut short..
Would you expect them to say anything different to what they did while still on US soil?
And they would also be dreading the fact that they may be next...

reply to post by RelentlessLurker


or maybe Syria???

I'm still waiting to see how this will all play out. I want to see who replaces these regimes if they should fall. Will they be more puppet governments or true democracies? War mongers maybe?

reply to post by Jeremiah Johnson


I hope Syrians start demonstrating and get President Assad out

reply to post by Jeremiah Johnson

It's going to be a very interesting year, that's for sure. I'm not sure how they're going to pull this off with everyone watching the ME pretty much explode.

reply to post by bluemirage5

While Egypt lent some support to and Saudi Arabia is a huge enemy of Iran, Syria would be a very big one as they are perhaps the most closely aligned with Iran. The two of them have been targets for far longer and have withstood much.

reply to post by ~Lucidity


When food prices increase in Syria......demonstrations will hit there

reply to post by bluemirage5


Me too, but I'm wondering if the Syrian people even know that this is happening. Does anyone know what type of news access they have?

I'll find out......give me afew secs

reply to post by Jeremiah Johnson


WOW.....all Syrian communications shut down!!!!!!!

No internet access in or out of Syria, communications down except Govt

reply to post by bluemirage5


Good looking, I'm not surprised at that. The people must be wondering why I would imagine unless they do know what's up.

reply to post by bluemirage5

Hmmm...got a source?

We were wondering about what was happening with Egyptian television/radio yesterday, but no one seemed to be writing about that.

reply to post by ~Lucidity


Syrian Democratic Underground on a Syrian paper.......

all communications to Syria OUT, internet acess to Syria shut down!

reply to post by ~Lucidity


I found this, not sure how reliable.

www.theyeshivaworld.com...

reply to post by Jeremiah Johnson


Good find

reply to post by bluemirage5


Thanks, one of the few things I like about google is the news search.