Iran’s President Ahmadinejad Escapes Shoe Attack In Egypt

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Cairo took an unpleasant turn Tuesday evening when he was almost struck by a shoe that a man threw at him.

The incident occurred as Ahmadinejad was leaving Cairo's Al-Hussein mosque.

It was not clear what the motive behind the attack was, but Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, which captured the attack on video, reported that the bearded perpetrator was a Syrian who, likely referring to Iran’s support for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, shouted, “You killed our brothers!”

The video shows a man straining forward in the crowd with a shoe in his hand and shouting “coward” as he throws it.

The attacker was reportedly arrested by the police after he was removed from the scene by security guards.

In a news conference following his meeting with Tayeb, Ahmadinejad said he "came from Iran to say that Egypt and the Egyptian people have their place in the heart of the Iranian people,” Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper reported.

But senior Al-Azhar cleric Hassan al-Shafie, who spoke after Ahmadinejad, criticized “some Shiites” in the presence of the president, who appeared ill at ease.

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