Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said that popular movements, including the waves of the Islamic awakening are against the unlawful interests being followed up by Washington in the region.
Boroujerdi noted that the Islamic Republic of Iran has always backed the popular movements and the wave of Islamic awakening.
"Iran has never interfered in the domestic affairs of other countries and we believe that the people of each country should decide about their own internal issues," the MP said.
He also noted that unlike Iran, the US has meddled numerous times in the internal affairs of a large number of countries across the world.
In September, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei lauded the regional nations' uprisings and revolutions in recent months, and said the nations of the region started these movements in a bid to revive their national honor, hoist the flag of Islam and fight back the US hegemony and the Zionist regime.
Addressing the First International Conference on Islamic Awakening here in Tehran, Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to the Islamic nature of the popular uprisings in the region, and cited "hoisting the flag of Islam" as another principle of the recent revolutions in the region, reminding the deep roots of Islam in the regional nations' beliefs.
Since the beginning of 2011, the Muslim world has witnessed popular uprisings and revolutions similar to what happened in Iran in 1979.
Tunisia saw the overthrow of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in a popular revolution in January, which was soon followed by a revolution which toppled Hosni Mubarak in Egypt in February.
Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Yemen have since been the scene of protests against their totalitarian rulers, who have resorted to brutal crackdown on demonstrations to silence their critics.
In Libya, while the euphoric Libyan revolutionaries seized control of most of Tripoli on August 22 in a lightning advance, they are still inches away from final victory.
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Washington is afraid of the Islamic awakening movements in the region, a senior Iranian legislator said, adding that Tehran has always supported the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to prevent the US hegemony in the region.
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