Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi has become the latest head of state to call for an end to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the AP reports. While meeting with Iranian government officials in Tehran — the first trip from an Egyptian leader to Iran since 1979 — Morsi called Assad’s government “oppressive,” noting that it had lost legitimacy. “The bloodshed in Syria is the responsibility of all of us and will not stop until there is real intervention to stop it,” Morsi said. “The Syrian crisis is bleeding our hearts.”
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