'US to maintain power grip on Egypt' http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174757.html

Press TV: Can you a little expand more. In the short term we could look at one of the things and that is the aid that the Unites States is giving Egypt. Obviously this is going to bring the strings attached and that means while all the Egypt still going to be ruling in the manner and form that it did.

Tillawi: Well, the United States has invested a lot of money in Egypt and in its army and over a billion dollars are probably more. Basically the Egyptian army is being financed by the United States and I guarantee you that what we are seeing in Egypt and what we saw in Egypt and we will see in Egypt, that investment will not go down the drain. Let me just take you back about a month ago. The first [people] who went to Tahrir Square after Mubarak was toppled or after he actually was forced to step down; it was John McCain and Joe Lieberman. Joe Lieberman, I call him the Israeli senator in the United States and John McCain, of course we know how he feels about Israel, those two went there to basically tell the world that we are here, we did it and we are in control. There was a political message for everybody in the world and including the Arab world that we are here. Now, these two represent Zionism. These two in the United States represent the AIPAC lobby and they are godfathers of Zionism. For those two to be in Tahrir Square that is the message to those who know what is happening behind the scenes that these people are the ones in control. I cannot really be clearer than that because that is exactly what it is.