Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 5 / Trend A. Tagiyeva /
Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's speech is aimed at spreading of the Tunisian revolution and the events in Egypt in the Arab world, Jordanian analyst said.
"Iran's appeal to make a revolution in the Arab world is nothing but a goal to achieve personal gain," analyst on Middle East Mouin Rabbani said over phone from Amman.
The most massive anti-governmental protests took place in Egypt over the last decade. Thousands of people in different cities all over the country went into the streets calling for the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and dissolving the parliament.
Fearing a Tunisian scenario, Egyptian authorities dispersed the protesters with tear gas. Following two days of riots, over 1,000 demonstrators were arrested. Roughly 300 people died and more than 4,000 people were injured during the riots.
President Hosni Mubarak announced about dissolving the government. He promised to form a new Cabinet of Ministers.
Last week, Mubarak spoke on national television with a statement. He promised that he would not run for the sixth term as president in the upcoming September elections. For the time remaining to the transfer the power the Egyptian president promised to carry out fundamental political reforms, as well as review Article 76 and 77 of the Constitution, concerning the procedures for nominating presidential candidates and the number of presidential terms.
Several opposition leaders were not satisfied with promises of the president and continue to demand his immediate resignation.
Rabbani said that the Egyptian president and the heads of some other Arab countries are political partners of the United States, so Iran is interested in changing the regime in Arab countries.
"The U.S. is the main political rival of Iran. It is not surprising that Iran will try every way to ignite a revolution in the Arab world against the supporters and partners of the United States," he said.
On Friday, in his Khutba after Friday prayer, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the riots in Egypt and Tunisia as "Islamic Liberation Movement" and compared them with the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979. He called for the Egyptian people and the whole Arab world not to stop in the face of dictatorship.