Libyan Foreign Minister:

Imam Khomeini's leadership inspired the Libyan's Revolution

In an interview with the portal of Imam Khomeini, Ashour Bin Khayal, Libyan foreign minister, defined his viewpoints on forming the Islamic revolution by the leadership of Imam Khomeini and its effects on the Libyan revolution.
Pointing on the Libyan revolution against Gadhafi's regime, he said: "Tired Libyans made a revolution patterning Iran and Egypt's revolution."
Ashour Bin Khayal continued: "In 2006 after the Friday prayers, Libyans demonstrated in Khartoum against the caricature on Italy's prime minister's T-shirt and showed their disgust and caused its removal, this was their first try to destroy Gadhafi."
On Imam Khomeini's manner to promote the Islamic revolution the Libyan FM said: "In Misrata, Zawiya and Tripoli, people were demonstrating peacefully with no help, no one supported the Libyan revolution and Libyans started there revolution all alone."
Noting that Libyans continued Imam Khomeini's way to release the darkness and by differing the "manner" and "way" in the Libyan revolution He continued: "The manner of the revolution should be chosen by Libyans themselves and the manners of each country is different from the others."
At the end, Ashour Bin Khayal showed his hopefulness for the other countries to have peaceful changes based on the Islamic revolution changes and also other Middle East revolutions.