(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - Essam al-Arian, the head of the Foreign Affairs committee in the new Egyptian parliament and a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, said that Egypt must examine how it could lead the changes in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring, which he said would also reach Iran. This position fits with the Muslim Brotherhood's ideological stance, which sees Shia Islam as an unwanted denomination. Amr Moussa, who is expected to run for the Egyptian presidency, also joined the anti-Iranian stance when he declared this week that the "Arab Middle East will not be run by Iran or Turkey."
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