Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi criticized Syria’s "oppressive regime" Thursday at an international conference in Iran – one of President Bashar Assad's few remaining allies - and called for outside intervention to end the civil war, NBC News reports.

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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, talks to his foreign minister Ali-Akbar Salehi, 3rd left, and an official as Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, right, delivers his speech during the opening ceremony of the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the group of countries not aligned with any of the traditional power blocs, as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, listens, in Tehran, Iran on August 30, 2012.
