(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Addressing Iran's Foreign Ministry officials and ambassadors, Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said on Wednesday that two major approaches have been taken to analyze Islamic Awakening.
“According to the first analysis, these developments have been provoked by Western countries and the US, but Islamic motives can be also seen in them. This analysis of Islamic movements does not conform to real and scientific ideas,” he said.
Amoli Larijani added that according to another analysis, which is advocated by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Islamic Awakening is a totally popular movement which stems from Islamic ideology and has led to decline of the West.
Earlier on Wednesday, Imam Khamenei said the recent popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa have Islamic roots and are anti-US and anti-Israel in nature.
“Some people think that the US is controlling these developments from behind the scenes, but this is a disillusioned analysis…in the same way that 30 years ago some [analysts] thought the Islamic Revolution [of Iran] had been designed by the US,” the Leader added.
A wave of anti-government popular uprisings that promptly became known as Islamic Awakening has rocked the Middle East and North Africa over the past few months.
It began in Tunisia in December 2010, with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali being forced to step down on January 14, 2011, and soon led to similar fate for the US-backed ruler of the Egyptian regime, Hosni Mubarak.
Demonstrations have also been held in Yemen with protesters demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ouster after nearly 33 years in power and calling for corruption and unemployment to be tackled.
The people of Bahrain have been also holding anti-government protests since February 14, demanding constitutional reforms and an end to the Al Khalifa monarchy.
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