Thank you for your pedantic reminder - I really had no idea countries had their own governments and own interests. How charming and curious - why would they bother?

So presumably you're aware that Hillary met with Mursi in mid-July, that Mursi is balancing an image with Salafists that he's just another Mubarak (Hillary already arranged Mubarak's 2nd to take over), while trying to assure Obama he's game with keeping peace with Israel and putting down the embassy protests so he can keep that US Congressional cash coming - $1.5 billion a year or whatever.

So while there are sympathies for Syrian protests, Mursi's Arab Quintet to solve this includes Iran, which is a non-starter for the US. It just so happened that Saudi didn't show up for the last meeting, and Turkey is fairly reliably in our corner, so my guess - a guess, mind you - is that Mursi's Quintet is going nowhere, and he's sending out signals to make the best of it - show he's hard with Iran, appease the US, appease the supporters of Syrian revolution by pressuring Assad, while not being seen as too much in the pocket of Obama.

You think with the influence that Netanyahu has in the region, that a "let's be friends" overture with Iran with no subtexts is going to be welcome? Who would it please, and who would it piss off? Saudi has its own grievances with Iran - another minus for Mursi. Unless it buys brownie points for him, why bother?

You might imagine Mursi doesn't want to be another Malaki or Karzai, would rather be a an Abdel Nasser, but after 30+ years of puppetdom, that's not going to happen. So he'll thread his internal threats and external pressures the best he can. And the militias in neighboring Libya are unwelcome - a reminder that a more serious opposition can arise, even though I think Egypt's military is more organized and 1st rate than Libya's.