“The Brotherhood does not necessarily think that it will achieve immediate success. We must remember this is a group that has been persecuted for over half a century by several Egyptian regimes. They have patience. What they want to prove is that they have fortitude and will not back down,” Justin Dargin, a geopolitical expert at Oxford University, told Al Arabiya News.

“These actions are as much for their domestic constituency as they are for the international community. They seek to show that they are not cowed and are in it for the long haul.“