US, Israel ‘seek to divide Muslims’

DUBAI: Iran’s most powerful authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, yesterday accused the United States and Israel of fomenting divisions among Muslims to undermine “Islamic uprisings” across the Middle East.
“By exploiting inattention ... corrupt American, NATO and Zionist agents are trying to divert the deluge-like movement of Muslim youth and bring them into confrontation with one another in the name of Islam,” he said.
“They are trying to turn the jihad against colonialism and Zionism into blind terrorism in the streets ... so that Muslims shed each other’s blood.”
“The aggressive and interventionist arrogant powers are making every effort to divert the course of these significant Islamic movements,” Khamenei said, according to Iranian state television, urging Muslims to show solidarity.