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“Ayatollah Mohamed Ali Al Taskhiri has denied supporting the revival of the Fatimid state, as announced by the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

The Fatimid state was an Islamic Shiite Caliphate that ruled over varying areas of Morocco, Egypt, and the Levant, from 909 to 1171 AD.

Speaking from the Iranian capital Tehran, Taskhiri, who is Secretary-General for the International Forum for Bringing Islamic Schools of Thought Closer, said that the quotes of him supporting the revival of the Fatimid state are incorrect.

Over the course of the last year in several public speeches and press statements Gaddafi has called for what he describes as the Second Fatimid State in North Africa which will eliminate the debate between the Sunni and Shiite sects and remove the enmity between them, an enmity which ‘Arab rulers encourage’.

In an interview with the Libyan e-newspaper ‘Libya Al Youm’ which will be published on Tuesday, Taskhiri said ‘I have never supported the revival of a Fatimid State, and I think the reporters who say that I did are mistaken’ adding that ‘the era where central government does not speak has come to an end, as did the Fatimid State’. He noted that Gaddafi’s goal in calling for this state was not sectarian.”