Iran's leader hails "Islamic" uprising in Arab world

TEHRAN Feb 4 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader saluted on Friday what he termed an "Islamic liberation movement" in the Arab world, and advised the people of Egypt and Tunisia to unite around their religion and against the West.

"The awakening of the Islamic Egyptian people is an Islamic liberation movement and I, in the name of the Iranian government, salute the Egyptian people and the Tunisian people," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told worshippers at Friday prayers in Tehran which were broadcast on television. 

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