IRAN: ISLAMIC AWAKENING CONFERENCE: HARBINGER OF A NEW MIDDLE EAST?

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TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said that the great Islamic movements that have recently arisen in the Muslim world are a prelude to the establishment of a new Middle East.

Salehi made the remarks on Sunday in an address to the 1st International Islamic Awakening Conference, which was held in Tehran from September 17 to 18.

Salehi said the fact that popular movements in the region are spreading and more people are joining them illustrates that a new Middle East will be established based on Islam, in which the people will have the right to determine their own destiny and will no longer be subservient to the United States and the Zionist regime.

“The popular uprisings that have recently arisen in the Arab world have their roots in the unsound and unfair equations that have been prevailing in the relations between nations… over successive decades and were Muslim nations’ natural reactions to unjust policies that the global hegemonistic system has adopted,” he added.

The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that the uprisings occurring in the region are grass-roots uprisings and are Islamic in nature, Salehi said, adding that Tehran recognizes regional nations’ right to determine their own destiny.

However, certain efforts are being made to divert the popular uprisings from their correct path, which would have serious consequences for the international community, the Iranian foreign minister said.

He also stated that the hegemonistic powers are seeking to hijack the revolutions occurring in the Middle East and North Africa through infiltrating subservient elements into them and seeking to create “artificial crises” in certain countries to avail themselves of an opportunity to manipulate the uprisings.

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