Egypt’s Mursi slams Syria regime in Iran speech

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PNA - Egypt’s President Mohammad Mursi has blasted Syria’s government as an “oppressive regime” and urged support for the uprising.

He was speaking at a summit of non-aligned nations in Iran, one of President Assad’s few remaining allies.

Mursi’s comments were not only uncomfortable for his hosts but also for Syria’s delegation which walked out.

“It is a moral duty to stand with the Syrian people against an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy,” Mursi told the conference hall in Tehran.

“It is a political and strategic necessity. It comes from our belief in a new independent Syria and we should express our full support for the struggle of those who are demanding freedom and justice in Syria.”

Mursi is the first Egyptian leader to visit Iran since its Islamic Revolution in 1979. But his blunt remarks on Syria suggest there will be no early restoration of Cairo’s diplomatic ties with Tehran.

The Iranians also had to listen while UN chief Ban Ki-moon denounced them for calling for Israel’s destruction and denying the Holocaust.

Iran has portrayed its hosting of the summit as proof that Western sanctions and efforts to isolate it over its disputed nuclear programme have failed.

[alan131210]

Mursi words were changed, some added some deleted by Iranian translator , he added "Bahrain uprising" to his words which clearly does not says

and on syria mursi says i back the Syrian people and opposition while iran shamelessly does the opposite with his speech . iran mullah regime is truly a joke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAwPldeFK40&feature=g-all-u&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1   

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Bahrain demands apology from Iran after translator replaces "Syria" with "Bahrain" in Morsi speech.

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Morsi’s speech generates new Iran-Bahrain tensions

12/Sep/03

PNA-Bahrain has demanded an apology from Iran after an official interpreter reportedly replaced the word "Syria" with "Bahrain" in a speech by Egypt's president at the opening of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran.

The foreign ministry in Manama on Saturday filed an "official protest memorandum" with Tehran's charge d'affaires over the "misrepresentation made by Iranian State Television" during President Mohamed Morsi's speech on Thursday.

Bahrain "requested the Iranian government apologise for this act, and take the necessary action to correct the breach and ensure that actions like this one don’t happen again," the ministry's demarche said, according to a statement.

Morsi, in the first visit to the Islamic republic by an Egyptian head of state since the 1979 Islamic revolution, in his speech criticised the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a key regional ally of Tehran.

"The revolution in Egypt is the cornerstone for the Arab Spring, which started days after Tunisia and then it was followed by Libya and Yemen and now the revolution in Syria against its oppressive regime," Morsi told delegates at the summit, prompting a walk-out by the Syrian delegation.

Manama said that the interpreter on Iran's state television replaced the word Syria with Bahrain several times, although Morsi, who spoke in Arabic, did not mention Bahrain at all.

The Bahraini statement did not name the television channel that it said changed the words, as several state channels transmitted Morsi's speech live, including two in Farsi: IRINN and Channel One.

IRINN broadcast the speech using the official interpretation of the summit, which clearly mentioned Syria.

Channel One used its own interpreter who may have substituted the word "Syria" with "Bahrain" in its broadcast, according to a video posted online by the Doha-based Al-Jazeera satellite news channel.

However, journalists on Sunday were unable to verify the authenticity of the video with Iranian television officials.

Relations between Tehran and Manama have been rocky over Iran's vocal criticism of Bahrain's deadly crackdown on Shiite-led protests last year.