Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Recent revolts vow declining US power

PressTV - Recent revolts vow declining US power

Senior Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi has described recent regional developments as a sign of declining US power in the region and the world. The chairman of the Iran's Majlis (parliament) Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy said the deep and strategic developments in the region were in the interest of regional nations.

Boroujerdi made the remarks in a meeting with Ecuador's Parliament Speaker Fernando Cordero on Wednesday, Fars News Agency reported. Following the collapse of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, waves of pro-democracy protests are spreading across the Middle East.

At least 1,000 people were killed in Tripoli on Monday by airstrikes conducted by the Libyan military in a desperate effort meant to quell the popular uprising, according to some reports. The International Federation for Human Rights says as many as 400 others have also been killed since the onset of protests in the North African country on February 15.


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