Iranian letter to Egypt’s Morsi draws fire from Islamist critics
In a letter to Morsi endorsed by 17 Iranian experts and academics, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reportedly called on the Egyptian president to adopt Iran’s ’Guardianship of the Jurist’ political system.
The ’Guardianship of the Jurist’ system is a Shia-Muslim political theory that holds that Islam gives an Islamic jurist custodianship over the people. Shia Iran adopted the system following its 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The letter has triggered an angry reaction in Egypt, with several political figures deeming it “interference in the state’s internal affairs.”