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Democratically Elected President Decries Military Coup
The Egyptian armed forces ousted the country’s first
democratically elected president today after just a year in power, installing a
temporary civilian government, suspending the constitution and calling for new
elections. (AP, 3 July)
President Mohammed Morsi denounced the move as a “full coup”
by the military.
After the televised announcement by Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah
el-Sissi, the Army chief, that the president has been ousted, millions of
anti-Morsi protesters in cities around the country erupted in delirious scenes
of joy, with shouts of “God is great” and “Long live Egypt,” Associated Press
reported. Fireworks burst over crowds dancing and waving flags in Cairo's Tahrir
Square, one of multiple centers of a stunning four-day anti-Morsi revolt that
brought out the biggest anti-government rallies Egypt has seen, topping even
those of 2011.
Moments
after the army statement, a statement on the Egyptian president's office's
Twitter account quoted Morsi as saying the military's measures “represent a
full coup categorically rejected by all the free men of our nation.”
In his speech, Gen. el-Sissi said the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court would step in as interim president until new elections are held. A government of technocrats would be formed with “full powers” to run the country.
El-Sissi
spoke while flanked by the country's top Muslim and Christian clerics as well
as pro-reform leader Mohammed ElBaradei and representatives of the youth
opposition movement behind the wave of protests.
The constitution, drafted by Morsi's Islamist allies, was “temporarily suspended," and a panel of experts and representatives of all political parties will consider amendments.
Morsi was elected with 51.7 percent of the vote in last
year's presidential election. Those who took to the streets this week say he
lost his electoral legitimacy because he tried to give the Muslim Brotherhood
and Islamist allies a monopoly on power, pushed through a constitution largely
written by his allies and mismanaged the country's multiple crises.
Photo
credit: Egypt’s Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the Army chief, announcing
Morsi’s ouster on National TV. 3 July 2013. (AP)
Those actions show that new lovers of a western democracy have to be supported by the military means.
ReplyDeleteMaybe in Russia or Iran: some time in the future, opponents may need to use that ("democratic") examples from Egypt and Turkey, to restore "proper order" by resorting to the army's actions..
Who knows, the Western "democracies" may need that kind solutions too....in not too distant future as well...
So far, the Islamic Republic is run orderly and it doesn't need a bloodshed wished by its outside and internal enemies, as it has been happening in Iran's neighboring, and supposedly "democratic" countries.
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ReplyDeleteto hell with slafist wahabi terrorist
in egypt und syria
to hell with the terrorist-loving governments in Iran, Syria and Lebanon..... and may they be sent there soon
DeleteEgyptians couldn't tolerate Islamists for one year. Yet Iranians had to put up with them for 34 years.Egyptian people are very wise.
ReplyDeleteIt is not Egypt. It is a simple dirty coup. And I bet that the game in Egypt is just started wait for a very red bloodshed
Deletejealous jewboy
Deletethe iranian shia islamist are much better politiker then whabi islamist
Also, it is quite idiotic to think Iranians are putting up with Islam. They are Muslims and most of them are pretty damned good ones.
DeleteTo the same three anons above.
DeleteYes it was a coup.But a coup with a difference because it was supported by the vast majority of the Egyptian people who were fed up with Islamist ways.
I will put down your name calling of me as a "jealous jewboy" to a sign of immature and imbecile behavioural itellect.
Ask most Iranians and they will tell you they are not Muslims but Zoroastrians.Even a son of a mullah told me this.Iran has been forced to put up with a minority of Islamist for 34 years.Why else was the Revolutionary guards and the basij created? Egyptian people are Muslims and they retected Islamist.So being Muslim doesn't mean you have to put up with Islamist. End of the day Islamists are Islamists,be it Shiite or Sunni because they are all fanatics.
Just more failure on the part of sunni islam,it just cant seem to get its act together unlike the shia
DeleteThat's because the shia use mozdors,basij and revolutioary guards to crush any real opposition.But don't worry every dog has its day.Happy barking!
DeleteYes you just keep telling yourself that
DeleteAnon 2:15
DeleteKeep on barking.
US/Zionist plan for total destabilization of Arabs is underway as devised by arch-Zionist Kissinger in 1973. Egypt is heading towards full scale civil war and collapse. The IMF/World Bank (Jewish Banksters) funded dam on the Nile in Ethiopia is no coincidence. Egypt will face a massive famine in the next 5 years as it has the fastest growing population in Africa and less than 1% arable land. Egypt is totally dependent of Saudi, Qatari, IMF/World Zionist bank charity to feed its 84 million uneducated and illiterate fellahin. Its corrupt military is bought and paid for by the US and can not even get gasoline for a single truck without the Cairo CIA station chief's approval. It is a shame what the once proud land of the Pharaohs has become. But then Egyptians were always a colony of some foreign power since the Roman Empire. A corrupt divided land of slaves made worse by foreign interference, corrupt government and manipulation by Wahabbi/Salafi Islamists and their western sponsors.
ReplyDeleteMake your mind up.Are the Egyptians Zionist sponsored and Western backed suckers or Wahabbi/Salafi Western backed lunatics?
DeleteIs it any surprise that we hear major tragic news coming out of another Arab country, as opposed to the civilized Western hemisphere?
ReplyDeleteNo! In South America there is a saying that the reason why there is no coup in the US is because there are no US embassies on US's soil. Of course it is not a surprise.
DeleteYou come from South America?
DeleteUsually when the military junta gets to power then it means that things have gone from bad to worse...they have hit rock bottom, so they might aswell take their chances with an invasion of Zionistan.
ReplyDeleteIf the Arabs had spent so much blood, money and resources in fighting the Zionist cancer, rather than killing and beheading each other, perhaps they would have had a future. But, then the British homosexual Major T.E Lawrence who manipulated he Saudis and then Trans-Jordan into a revolt against the Osmani Turks, summed it right, "the Arabs are a childish, petty, barbaric people with each tribe against the other and brother against brother". No wonder the US/Zionists are supporting the Wahabbi/Salafi cannibals.
DeleteThe portion of the population loyal to Morsi has vowed to fight back in one way or another. The Muslim Brotherhood will not let the reigns slip out of their hands that easily and are in the process of rallying its supporters to confront this illegal move by the military. And after they are done and put everything back in order, there will be hell to pay amongst the traitors in the military ranks.
ReplyDeleteThe traitors were the Islamist Morsi government.Good riddance!
DeleteHow will the majority that elected Morsi react? And what happens if the MB win the next election?
ReplyDeleteThis is sort of looking like the direction Turkey took in the period spanning the 1960s through 1980s. It was especially bad when I visited there in 1975.
might be that wherever you are, whenever you're there, things are bad.
DeleteMARK-the supporters of Morsi are there by their millions!!,very disappointed by an imbecile of a president who let them down in a record short time!-Even the Saudis though a tool of the west know how to package themselves in-front of the masses.MORSI is joke! there was no need for him to show some extremism by cutting ties with Syria in broad daylight.surely the list of blunders is long for his supporters to bear!.
DeleteBMA, I agree with your analysis that Morsi had showed his lack of maturity by ignoring solutions proposed by Iran and B. Assad.
DeleteMaybe, he (Morsi)needed more time to better understand or he simply was not up to that tasks...
However, I believe that Morsi's outside enemies took advantage of that situation in order to pursue their goals behind the backs of an emerging confusion in the Egyptian society.
For instance, the removal of Morsi, and marginalization of Muslim Brotherhood, can benefit Zionist entity with an elimination of the Hamas and bringing to power an amalgam of "organizations", which will implement Western wishes for money.
From the Iran and Assad's point of view, the troubles in a governance of the Egypt may bring Palestinian loyalty back and give a time to Assad and the Islamic Republic to advance their military strategies...before enemies might be able to extend their expanded control of the Egyptian society and dictate their wishes.
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Middle easterners think that rioting and hysterics will accomplish something. What an awful part of the world
ReplyDeleteI lived through the LA riots. Americans are worse.
DeleteThis event has so much of operation Ajax in it, I wonder and am amused at this level of predictability.
ReplyDeleteGood or bad, this democratically elected Egyptian was toppled as was Mossadegh half a century ago, because he was awkward.
I know he was an arse, but an elected arse none the less.
As someone we all know once said, to colonise a nation you need uneducated peoples and a handful of traitors.
Azari by fortune, Iranian by grace of God.
Dariush London
Wrong.Mossadegh was selected by the Shah and approved by Majles.
DeleteMorsi was democratically elected by the people of Egypt.
Mossadegh went against the constitution by trying to close the parliament and wanting to become commander in chief of the armed forces.
Morsi was trying to ram Sharia law down peoples throats.
But as that person said about colonising a nation.That's what happened to Iran in 1979 when a bunch of uneducated Islamist traitors took over a country and forced their nonsense down peoples throats.An old saying,look up a mullahs beard and you will see,Made in Britain.
Thx God the likes of you anon 1:01 pm were flushed out for good from Iran.
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