He praised as “valuable” the growing intellectual awareness of nations in the Middle East and their approach to Islam and revolutionary values.
The Iranian minister said the voice of the Egyptian, Tunisian and Yemeni people is that of the Islamic Republic.
He noted that the Islamic Revolution in Iran has served as a model for the movements of the Egyptian and Tunisian people and emphasized that former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak “were pursuing policies of Western countries.”
“Enemies were trying to kill the Islamic Revolution in the womb but they failed. They also sought to transmute the Islamic Revolution but also sustained a failure,” Mohammad-Najjar noted.
Despite efforts made by the Egyptian government to back everything to normal, anti-government protests in the troubled country entered its 13th consecutive day, dubbed as “Day of Martyrs,” on Sunday.
The Egyptian demonstrators called on out-of-favor President Hosni Mubarak to immediately end his 30-year dictatorship and step down.
However, the incumbent Egyptian president insists that he will stay in power until the next presidential election in September.
On Saturday, Egyptian state television announced that Mubarak has resigned as chairman of the ruling National Democratic Party.
Senior members of Mubarak's party also resigned on the same day, but demonstrators staging a 12th day of revolution rejected the shuffle as a cosmetic move.
Mubarak also reportedly held talks with key cabinet members to try to kick-start Egypt's economy, which has been hit hard by the ongoing protests.
In Tunisia, at least 147 people were killed and 510 injured during the revolution that unseated Tunisian President Ben Ali last month, according to the United Nations.
On January 14, Ben Ali fled the North African country to the Saudi port city of Jeddah.
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