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Syrians walk out of NAM summit amid Morsi criticisms

Published August 30, 2012 Updated August 30, 2012 09:28am

"The Syrian delegation withdrew as President Morsi began discussing the Syrian file," the official MENA news agency reported.

Morsi, Egypt's first Islamist president, was in Tehran to hand over rotating leadership of the movement to Iran, Syria's closest regional ally.

He was the first Egyptian leader to set foot in Iran since the Islamic revolution in 1979.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012