ARMY CONTROLS 80% ECONOMY- Injustice Can’t Last Forever- Uprising is Due Soon in Egypt

Islamabad; 22 Jan 2021 – “Country is at the brink of implosion. The nation under the present regime has no future. You just have to see how the army is taking over national companies and imprisoning businessmen. …. The army now controls between 70 and 80 percent of the economy and the country’s businesses.”

“No injustice can last forever,” Talaat Fahmy, the  official spokesman of Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt , told AFP in Istanbul.

Hounded by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after briefly rising to power following the Arab Spring uprising, the Muslim Brotherhood sees a new revolution sweeping aside the current regime.

“The group did not disappear. It did not cut off contacts with those members over all those years. The Muslim Brotherhood knows how to communicate with its members, adapting to the security and political circumstances.”

Jailed eight times during the three-decade rule of Mubarak, Fahmy left Egypt and settled in Istanbul in 2015 after spending two years in prison under Sisi.

He considers Sisi’s rule even more damaging to his country than that of Mubarak, who died in February 2020, and accuses Sisi of overseeing a “bloodthirsty regime that rules with an iron fist”.

Fahmy also expressed little fear at the repercussions of this month’s reconciliations between Qatar — where some of the group’s members have fled to — and its regional rivals in the Gulf and Egypt, which have branded the Muslim Brotherhood a “terrorist organisation”.

The movement “is not dependent on this or that government, and all the financial aid it receives comes from the group’s own members,” he said.

“We do not receive any support from Qatar or Turkey,” said Fahmy, stressing that the only help the group gets from Ankara is the authorisation to be present in the country.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose ruling party is rooted in political Islam, regularly refers to Sisi as a “coup leader” and accuses Egyptian authorities of “killing” Morsi, who died in 2019 after collapsing in court during his trial.

“We never embarrass the country we are present in and do nothing to violate its law and traditions,” Fahmy said.