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Tue, 05/10/2011 - 11:11
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Iran Urges West to Change Attitude towards Regional Revolutions

TEHRAN, May 10 (FNA)- A senior Iranian interior ministry official blasted the efforts made by the westerns countries to derail the current popular uprisings in the region, and called on the West to change its biased attitudes towards the regional developments.
"The western countries should change their view about the revolutions in the region," Deputy Interior Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Soulat Mortazavi said on Tuesday.

He described the western plots to derail popular uprisings as futile, and noted, "Nations are vigilant and aware today, and the US and a number of other western bullying powers can no more derail their revolutions through plots and conspiracies."

Mortazavi further stated that the wave of uprisings in the Middle-East, North of Africa and other parts of the Muslim world is inspired by Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Last week, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said that current uprisings in the region are moving in the same direction and pursuing the same goals and causes that Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution did.

In recent months, a wave of revolutions and anti-government uprisings has been sweeping the Arab world.

In January, a revolution in Tunisia ended the 23-year ruling of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

In February, another Arab revolution led to the ouster of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after three decades of his authoritarian rule.

Since then, other revolutions have swept Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, while other anti-government unrests are erupting in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, Kuwait and Algeria.

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