Frightened Mubarak threatens Iran and Hezbollah

The Mubarak dictatorship in Egypt claims there was a plot by Hezbollah to bomb sites in Egypt. It is a fantastical claim whose real purpose is to provide an excuse for the regime to help the US and Israel to curtail Iranian influence in the region and to prevent the infectious example of Hezbollah, as the only Arab force to have defeated Israel, from further undermining its already battered credibility at home.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday warned the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and its suspected allies Iran, that he would not tolerate "the intervention of regional powers that are hostile to peace and that aim to drag the region into the abyss."

Speaking out for the first time since Egyptian authorities announced two weeks ago the arrest of 49 Hezbollah agents on suspicion of carrying out hostile operations.

From Haaretz