Report: Qarzawi, Salafis behind Mursi’s Decision on Cutting Ties with Syria

TEHRAN – Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi has severed his country’s relations with Syria under the pressures of the head of the Qatari opposition, Sheikh Yusuf Gharzawi, and Salafi groups, a Saudi paper said.

The Saudi al-Sharq al-Owsat newspaper said before deciding to cut his country’s ties with the Syrian government, Mursi had a meeting with a delegation headed by Gharzawi and other Islamic figures who were mostly Salafi leaders.

The Saudi daily reported that the delegation pressured Mursi to take a harsher position against the Syrian government.

Also, Qarzawi, himself, asked the Egyptian president to cut all official and diplomatic ties between Cairo and Damascus and provide more aid for the “opposition forces ” in Syria.

In response, a Syrian official source said on Sunday that Mursi has joined the US-led band of conspiring and instigating against Damascus by cutting off all ties with Syria.

The source expressed Syria’s confidence that “the brotherly Egyptian people will foil these policies and their dangerous impacts and repercussions for the region”.

Also, a prominent Egyptian journalist expressed regret over President Mursi’s decision to close the Syrian embassy in Cairo, and said Mursi was expected to shut down the Israeli mission as the enemy of the Muslim world, instead.

“Mursi’s remarks at a conference in Cairo means declaring war on the Syrian government,” Menni al-Shazali was quoted as saying by al-Youm al-Sabe’ news website on Sunday.

“The president talked about closing the Syrian embassy while all of us thought that he would decide to shut down the Israeli mission,” she added.

Source:FNA

R.Sawas