West plots to divert attentions from Islamic awakening

A senior Iranian legislator warned against the plots hatched by the western powers to distract the world's attention from the roots and causes of Islamic Awakening in a move to derail and manage popular uprisings."The US and Europe seek to change the nature of the Islam-seeking uprisings of the nations and divert the revolutionaries' position-takings," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Fatemeh Alia told FNA on Wednesday. She cautioned the revolutionary forces against the West's plots to derail the Islamic uprisings, and said they have recruited a number of groups to infiltrate revolutionary nations in an attempt to manage developments in the region. Since the beginning of 2011, a wave of revolutions and anti-government uprisings has swept the region from the Middle-East to the North of Africa. In January, a revolution in Tunisia ended the 23-year ruling of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In February, another Arab revolution led to the ouster of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after three decades of his authoritarian rule. Other revolutions are erupting in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, while other anti-government unrests have just started in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, Kuwait and Algeria. The United States and certain other western countries have adopted a double-standard approach towards the popular protests against the dictatorial regimes in the region. Political observers believe that people's uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen and Libya are the result of growing "Islamic awakening" in the Middle-Eastern countries and have remarkably weakened support for the Zionist regime in the region.