The Syrian government called for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to step down Wednesday amid massive protests, Reuters reported. Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s administration has spent two years attempting to suppress an ongoing uprising calling for his own ouster. Upwards of 93,000 people were killed in the Syrian conflict as of June according to a United Nations report.
“(Egypt’s) crisis can be overcome if Mohamed Mursi realizes that the overwhelming majority of the Egyptian people reject him and are calling on him to go,” Information Minister Omran Zoabi was quoted as saying by the state news agency SANA.
Morsi attended a rally in mid-June which called for jihad against Assad’s regime in Syria.
