"ANOTHER IRAN ?" - Egypt military warns demonstrators, orders them to evacuate palace area.

"ANOTHER IRAN ?" - Egypt military warns demonstrators, orders them to evacuate palace area.(AA).Egypt’s Republican Guard, which deployed around the presidential palace on Thursday, said demonstrators must evacuate the area by 3 p.m. (1300 GMT), Reuters reported the presidency saying in a statement. Supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi hurled rocks at each other on Thursday outside the presidential palace, over the heads of soldiers deployed there to protect the building, a Reuters witness said. Soldiers urged both sides to stop and helped calm the flare-up. Violence outside the palace that erupted on Wednesday had mostly abated by the early hours of Thursday.

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At least three tanks deployed outside the Egyptian presidential palace on Thursday in a street where supporters and opponents of Mursi had been clashing into the early hours of the morning, a Reuters witness said. At least two armored troop carriers were also seen in the area outside the palace. The violence that had stretched from Wednesday afternoon into the early hours of Thursday had abated and streets were calm. Five demonstrators died overnight Thursday in the worst violence since Mursi became Egypt’s first Islamist president in June. The five were killed by gunfire or buckshot as nearly 350 others were wounded when allies and foes of Mursi clashed around the presidential palace in Cairo, state news agency MENA said. The violence spread beyond the capital, with protesters torching the offices of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood in the Mediterranean port city of Ismailiya and in Suez, witnesses said. “It’s a civil war that will burn all of us,” said Ahmed Fahmy, 27, as the clashes raged behind him. “They (Islamists) attacked us, broke up our tents, and I was beaten up,” said Eman Ahmed, 47. “They accused us of being traitors.” Activists among the Islamist marchers harassed television news crews, trying to prevent them from working, AFP reporters said.Hmmmmm......While people die in the streets of Egypt, Obama cozies up to the MuslimBrotherhood....the Egyptian people won't forget this.Read the full story here.