Tehran Friday Prayer: Regional Nations Seeking to Revive Islam, Religious Populism

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami underlined the Islamic nature of the current popular uprisings in the region, and added that the regional nations are in pursuit of "Islamic values and religious populism".  
 
Addressing a large congregation of worshipers on Tehran University Campus today, Ayatollah Khatami pointed to the outcomes of the waves of Islamic awakening in the region, and stressed that the US that once sought to create the Greater Middle-East for the Zionist regime is now facing growing humility and disgrace.

"Among the other outcomes of the Islamic awakening is this official declaration of the revolutionary people that they want Islam and religious populism," Ayatollah Khatami noted.

"And this is what the arrogance (the US) has been and is much worried about," he continued.

He also said that popular uprisings also have this message for the other regional nations that they too can come to the scene and end (the life of) the Zionist regime once and for all.

The remarks by Ayatollah Khatami came after, Israeli Ambassador to Jordan Danny Navon, accompanied by his staff, returned home on Thursday after activists, inspired by Cairo protests, called for mass demonstrations against the Israeli embassy in Amman.

Navon returned to the occupied Palestinian territories on Thursday with his staff, fearing a large demonstration outside the embassy in Amman over the weekend.

The Jerusalem Post newspaper said that calls for a mass rally had been posted on social networking site Facebook under the banner "No Zionist embassy on Jordanian territory."

Last weekend, Egyptian protestors ransacked Israel's mission in Egypt and the ambassador and his staff were evacuated from the country.

Six Israeli security guards were besieged in the embassy building for several hours until they were rescued by Egyptian commandos.

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