GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Iran strategy blamed for Mubarak fall

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: G2 Bulletin via World Net Daily

24February2011 4:30pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Iran helped orchestrate the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak through its close Muslim Brotherhood ties because Egypt had strayed from a hard-line Islamic position – and a change of power would expand Iran's influence across northern Africa including the strategic Suez Canal, according to informed sources who talked with Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

According to those sources, Iran, which already wields significant influence in central Asia and the Middle East, has as its goal to exert its influence into the Arab countries, especially those with majority or increasing Shi'ite populations.

At the same time, Tehran wants to isolate Israel, because the leaders of the Islamic republic believe officials there greatly have mistreated Palestinians.

It's not the first conflict between Tehran and Cairo. In fact, the bad blood goes back to the time of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. (read full report)

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