[I'm sure this will go over real big with The State Department and Congress]

The White House and State are happy he was allowed to win in a fair election, especially considering the alternative,and look at him as something of a moderate, but are still worried the Generals will not relinquish proper power to him and civilian rule:

Egypt Results Leave White House Relieved but Watchful,

New York Times, June 24/25

It is not like it was with past presidents, the game has changed with Egypt. The Egyptian generals are no longer trusted by our own military, as well as the administration, that long love affair is over and will not be coming back, we have to deal with the people. So the administration is happy a moderate people's choice is in there and most of all before anything else they hope he can hold power. Because rioting and bombings in the streets of Egypt is not what they want to see. Most of all what the administration wants is stability in the region.

I think many get the administration's approach to the whole Iran thing wrong. First, you have to remember that the Obama administration started out with an olive branch approach to Iran, looking to talk and start a new relationship, and were pretty rudely rebuffed,  and shortly thereafter that, the Green Revolution happened which changed the game somewhat.

I repeat: what they are interested in for the most part is stability in the region. And Iran trying to get nukes destabilizes it, (not to mention Mr Obama has a bee in his bonnet about anybody making more nukes, instead of getting rid of them, but that's secondary here.) As does sectarian fighting without nukes like in Syria. If Saudi Arabia and Israel and Iraqi Sunnis and Bahraini ruling Sunnis are happy neighbors with Iran, I am pretty sure the administration would also be happy with Iran.

If the new president of Egypt plans to step in there and act like a mediator, making a new alternative relationship for some area Sunnis with Iran, I think they would like nothing more, instead of more Sunni fear of Shiite power in the Mideast. If that made the appeal of groups like Hezbollah much less likely, even better. Let's put it this way: if Saudi Arabia is OK with what Morsi said about Iran, then they will be OK with it (BTW, I believe Saudi royals have blathered similar platitudes in speeches about hoping for making a better relationship with Iran in the past, but I ain't gonna go searching for them.)

The Republican side of Congress and the rabid Israel supporters on both sides of the aisle would be another case. I don't know what they will think. But yeah chances are they are going to rant because to begin with, they still have a simplistic troglodyte confused view of the Muslim Brotherhood, where a member can't be a moderate. First, they don't get that conservative Sunni Islamists usually hate and/or mistrust Iran. Then they also don't get that all Muslim Brotherhood members are not conservative Sunni Islamists.

As for the less nutwing members of Congress, there is this in the Times' article:

Senator John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said on Sunday that during his most recent visits to Egypt, Mr. Morsi had committed to protecting fundamental freedoms, including women’s rights, minority rights and the right to free expression and assembly. Mr. Morsi also said he understood the importance of post-revolutionary relationships with America and Israel, Mr. Kerry added in a statement.

“Ultimately, just as it is anywhere in the world,” Mr. Kerry said, “actions will matter more than words.”

Over all, I think it's also wise to remember the reason some lefties hate Obama applies across the board: he's a moderate, he's moderate and pragmatist about most things (and not just the stuff lefties are against.) Also: he dislikes radicals. Need I mention that the current rulers of Iran (as well as the current prime minister of Israel) are radicals?  I can't imagine he doesn't know most Egyptians don't like Israel, and I can't imagine he thinks he is going to change their mind. He doesn't even think he can change most American minds much less Egyptian minds, he usually goes with the flow of where people are.

Mursi says Iran totally made this interview up and is going to sue! Un-fucking believable! I've had the habit of reading Iranian government "news" from time to time for quite a few years now, and I've seen lots of crazy stuff, but nothing this outrageous:

Mursi’s Office to Sue Fars News Agency
Uskowi on Iran, June 27, 2012

The office of Egyptian president-elect Mohammed Mursi will file a lawsuit against Iran’s Fars News Agency for making up an interview with him hours before the final results of the presidential election were announced.

“President Mursi was never interviewed by Iran's Fars news agency. The interview was fabricated and his presidential office has begun taking legal action against the news agency," Yasser Ali, a presidential spokesman said. (Reuters, 27 June).

Fars had quoted Mursi as saying that developing good relations with Iran “will create (new) strategic balance in the region” and that was “part of his renaissance program.” [....]

I used to think Iranian powers-that-be were often pretty savvy on the propaganda front, but lately it seems they are really losing it and going whole hog Kim Jong-Il. Maybe worse than Dear Leader Kim, while shutting his citizens off from the world, at least he partook of it himself from time to time. Maybe somebody should tell them that when you want to attempt to shut off the internet to citizens, you're still supposed to monitor it yourself?

Edit to add: Reuters link: Egypt's president-elect to sue Iranian news agency