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April 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Speaking in a meeting with leader of Tunisia’s Islamic Ennahda Movement, Rashid al-Ghannushi, on Tuesday, he also congratulated the Tunisian side on the victory of the Tunisian revolution.
In January 2011, popular protests by the Tunisians led to the ouster of the Western-propped dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who is now facing charges of manslaughter.
Ghannushi, for his part, praised the Islamic Revolution in Iran as a development which paved the way for other nations to gain their freedom and which inspired the anti-arrogance and anti-despotic movements.
The Egyptian official also lauded the character of the founder of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, Imam Khomeini.
Earlier on Tuesday, Salehi met with Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali to declare Tehran’s readiness to expand cooperation with Tunisia in various fields and provide Tunis with technological know-how.
The Iranian foreign minister added that repeated bilateral visits by high-ranking officials from Iran and Tunisia will lay the ground for the expansion of relations between the two countries.
He also attended a separate meeting with the speaker of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly, Mustafa bin Jaafar.
Salehi, heading a political and parliamentary delegation, arrived in Tunisia on Monday at the invitation of his Tunisian counterpart Rafik Abdessalem.
This is the first visit by a high-ranking Iranian official to Tunisia after the fall of the country’s Western-backed dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in 2011.
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