Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood demands coup reversal
Iran Press TV
Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:47PM GMT
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has demanded the reversal of the military coup that unseated President Mohamed Morsi as political tensions continue to flare up across the North African country.
"First they have to reverse the coup," Gehad el-Haddad, a Brotherhood official said on Thursday.
"You can't come on a tank and remove an elected leader…. It is a stand-off, it is either a military coup or a democratic choice,' he added.
The group says it has proposed a framework for talks to resolve Egypt's crisis, facilitated by the European Union.
Meanwhile, the Brotherhood slammed the EU for its failure to denounce the military coup that ousted President Morsi.
The Brotherhood's statement came a day after the bloc's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton visited Cairo and met Egypt's new interim leaders as well as members of Tamarod, the key grass-roots movement behind the anti-Morsi mass protests.
On Tuesday, Egypt's new 34-member cabinet was sworn in by interim president Adly Mansour. There are no ministers from the Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamic parties.
Tension has intensified since the Egyptian army overthrew Morsi, suspended the constitution, dissolved the parliament on July 3 and declared the chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour, as interim president the following day.
Dozens of people have since been killed in the wave of violent clashes between Morsi supporters, his opponents and security forces.
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