Foreign parties are not mediating: Presidential adviser

Mostafa Hegazy, adviser to the president for strategic affairs, confirmed that dealing with deposed President Mohamed Morsi and leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood will not be determined by politics but will be according to the law alone.

State news media agency MENA reported that Hegazy refused to describe the efforts of some international and Arab parties as mediation efforts.

He said that these contributions did not represent attempts to run negotiations or impose the vision of a foreign party to solve the problems of the gatherings in Cairo that “breached all limits of peaceful protest.”

“The fact is we have foreign parties, partners in international society, who are keen on witnessing the realities of the crisis closely,” he said.

Hegazy then added that these parties have ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, and that “these past relationships may help the Brotherhood to see truths it might want to neglect, or sometimes overlook.”

He said that the sit-ins were part of a strategy the Muslim Brotherhood has adopted for decades of projecting themselves as victims, and “blackmailing society within the frame of this sacrifice.”

Meanwhile, in a note on his Facebook page, leading Brotherhood figure and vice-president of its Freedom and Justice Party, declared that Islam will emerge victorious from the battle with American dominance, foreign occupation, oppressive tyrants and prejudiced media.

The statement discussed the Brotherhood’s goals to create systems in Egypt based on Sharia law so that the country would play a significant role in establishing a civilization based on equality between nations.

Attempts to revive the war on terrorism will fail, Erian wrote, referring to comments made by US President Barack Obama several months ago that the war on terrorism had ended with the start of the democratic turn in the Arab world.