Khamenei Links Events in Egypt to Islamic Revolution; Muslim Brotherhood Responds

Today marked a rare appearance by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to lead the official Friday prayer sermon in Tehran. Predictably, his comments were directed towards the events unfolding in Egypt. The Christian Science Monitor reports:

Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, addressing Egyptians in Arabic after delivering the Friday prayer sermon in Tehran, portrayed himself as “your brother in religion,” while praising the “explosion of sacred anger” and warning against any US role in the outcome.

Describing close US ally President Hosni Mubarak as a “traitor dictator” who is working for Israel and guilty of “great betrayal” of Egyptians, Ayatollah Khamenei said the regime-changing events in Tunisia and now Egypt were natural extensions of Iran’s own Islamic revolution in 1979.

The Muslim Brotherhood, however, has responded to Khamenei's comments on its website¹:

MB responds to Iran’s Islamic Leader Mr Khamenai: The MB regards the revolution as the Egyptian People’s Revolution not an Islamic Revolution asserting that the Egyptian People’s Revolution includes Muslims, Christians, from all sects and political

(h/t Enduring America).
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¹ See: 12:50 on February 4th, 2011.