-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday expressed support for the tens of thousands of protesters in Iran's capital, saying they "deserve to have the same rights that they saw being played out in Egypt and are part of their own birthright." She spoke of the "hypocrisy" of the Iranian government that hailed the protests in Egypt but has tried to suppress opposition at home.
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-The US State Department has begun sending Twitter messages to Iranians in Farsi, alluding to the “historic role” social media have played in mass protests against Iran’s 2009 disputed presidential polls.
The Twitter feeds in the Iranian language began Sunday as US officials accused Iran of hypocrisy by supporting the anti-government revolt in Egypt but seeking to prevent anti-government demonstrations in Iran.
On the Twitter account, USAdarFarsi, the State Department said it “recognizes historic role of social media among Iranians We want to join in your conversations.”
In another tweet, the State Department said: “#Iran has shown that the activities it praised Egyptians for it sees as illegal, illegitimate for its own people.”
In a third tweet, it said “US calls on #Iran to allow people to enjoy same universal rights to peacefully assemble, demonstrate as in Cairo.”
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Kita dapat lihat bagaimana musuh-musuh Islam begitu mengharapkan kejatuhan Kerajaan Iran sekarang dan sangat merestui protes-protes dari orangramai terhadap kerajaan Iran.
Lihat pula reaksi musuh-musuh Islam pada kerajaan Mesir yang diprotes rakyat:
Egypt crisis: Israel rallies to support of Egyptian regime
Israel has rallied to the support of President Hosni Mubarak by allowing Egyptian troops into the Sinai peninsula for the first time since a peace deal was signed in 1979.
The concession came as it emerged that Israel had privately urged Western governments to end their criticism of Mr Mubarak as he struggles to quell a popular uprising against him.
The United States and its allies were initially supportive of the Egyptian leader, but have signalled a shift in allegiance to his critics as the protests have gathered pace.
Israel, however, has shown fewer qualms about backing Egypt's president of 30 years, fearing his overthrow could presage the rise of an Islamist regime and the end of one of the Jewish state's most important strategic alliances.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has instructed ministers to make no public comment on events in Egypt. But his ambassadors abroad were instructed to plead with the governments of major powers to be more supportive of Mr Mubarak. Mr Netanyahu on Monday said he was following events in Egypt with “vigilance and worry” and that he feared the country could be led by a radical Islamic regime like that in Iran.
The decision to allow two Egyptian battalions to deploy against protesters in Sinai, which has been demilitarised since Israel’s withdrawal from the territory after the Camp David accords of 1978, is a reflection of Mr Netanyahu’s mounting concern.
Following a sharp deterioration in relations with its ally Turkey and the emergence of a Hizbollah-backed prime minister in Lebanon, Israel has begun to feel increasingly isolated in the Middle East.
Mr Mubarak shares a mutual antipathy towards Iran and Hamas, which runs Gaza, and has been seen as a vital defender of Israel’s security interests.
Israel fears that if he goes, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist opposition group that has ties to Hamas, is likely to become a major force in the government that replaces him.
"The only people in Egypt who are committed to peace are the people in Mubarak's inner circle, and if the next president is not one of them, we are going to be in trouble," Eli Shaked, a former Israeli ambassador to Cairo, wrote in Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper.
The emergence of a hostile Egyptian government would force Israel into a major adjustment of its military strategy. Since the two states last went to war in 1973, Egypt has received billions of dollars in military aid from the United States, making its army a much trickier battlefield prospect.
Analysts said the protests in Egypt could prompt Mr Netanyahu to toughen his stance on peace talks by allowing him to argue that any deal could unravel if a moderate Palestinian leadership is overthrown and replaced by Islamists.
The potential loss of Egypt as an ally, and the risk that Jordan – Israel's only other Arab partner – could then follow suit, is a prospect that is already unnerving many ordinary Israelis.
"These are dangerous times," said Tal Edelstein, a marketing consultant in Jerusalem. "We already talk of ourselves as a villa in a jungle, but now it seems that the hostile forces are closing in."
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Mideast expert: Israel right to worry about Egypt uprising
By MARILYN H. KARFELD
Senior Staff Reporter
Former State Department Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller is making few predictions on how the political crisis in Egypt will play out.“The direction of these political changes can go either way,” said Miller in a February 2 conference call sponsored by The Israel Project. “The violence this morning (between forces supporting and opposing the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak) proves that point.”
The unrest in Egypt – and recent political turmoil in Tunisia, Jordan and Algeria – and the possibility of democratic reform in Arab states does not portend well for Israel, at least in the short term, noted Miller, a Shaker Heights native.
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Egypt And the Muslim Brotherhood: An Israeli Perspective
In the days since Egyptian protestors first descended upon Cairo’s Tahrir Square, pundits and politicians have been keeping a watchful eye on Egypt’s strongest Islamic group, the Society of Muslim Brothers—more commonly known as the Muslim Brotherhood. Many have voiced fears that if President Hosni Mubarak steps down, the Brotherhood will step in and transform the country into Iranian-style Islamic republic—and an asylum for terrorists. And perhaps no one worries more than neighboring Israel.
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Jelas, sangat khuatir akan kejatuhan kerajaan Mesir dan sebaliknya mengharapkan kejatuhan kerajaan Iran. Maka tidak hairan, di sebalik suara-suara protes di Iran, di belakang tabirnya adalah AS dan Israel.
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