(Euronews: 1410 PST, February 4, 2011) Iran's supreme leader is calling on the people of Egypt and Tunisia to unite around their religion and against the West, calling the recent events an Islamic liberation movement.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was speaking for the first time since the recent uprising. He told an audience of tens of thousands that Iran's own Islamic revolution of 1979, which deposed the U.S.-backed Shah, had served as an example to people living under similar dictatorships.