Iran Calls for Toppling Regimes in Egypt and Saudi Arabia

(Tehran, Iran) The Iranians are becoming even more belligerent by encouraging supporters and operatives in Egypt and Saudi Arabia to take action.

Iran's attacks and accusations against Egypt and Saudi Arabia have recently intensified. In early December, Iran's leading conservative government dailies Kayhan and Jomhouri-ye Eslami accused the Egyptian and Saudi regimes of treason, and called on their peoples to topple their regimes.

Kayhan editor Hossein Shariatmadari, who is close to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, praised Khaled Islambouli, the assassin of the late Egyptian president Anwar Al-Sadat, and called to follow his example. At the same time, student demonstrations were held in Tehran, during which protesters called for killing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and threw firebombs at the Egyptian interest office.

Also, on December 10, 2008, an Iranian group called "Brothers of Radhwan" set fire to the offices of Saudi Arabian Airlines in Tehran, to protest against what the group called the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and "the regime occupying Jerusalem."

Note that whenever there are assertions of unity in the Islamic world, remember that Muslims kill each other more often than they kill infidels. Nonetheless, Iranian rabble-rousing cannot be ignored. Fanatics in Cairo and Riyadh are undoubtedly getting the message.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.