will spare no effort to help establish a democratic ruling system in Egypt. He did not say the country would spare no effort to establish a democratic ruling system in Iran, however. Larijani was speaking as he received two Egyptian scholars. One of them, Fahmy Howeidy, said, “The dictatorship, corruption and gross social inequality triggered the popular revolution in Egypt.” He failed to say that the 1979 Iranian revolution sparked the uprising, as the Islamic Republic repeatedly insists.