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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 03:03 AM Feb 2013

Ahmadinejad To Make First Egypt Visit By Iran Head In Decades

Source: REUTERS

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Cairo next week, becoming the first Iranian president to travel to Egypt since Iran’s 1979 revolution ruptured diplomatic ties between the two most populous countries in the Middle East.

Ahmadinejad will head Iran’s delegation to a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Cairo, said Amani Mojtaba, head of Iran’s interest section in Cairo, which it maintains in the absence of an official embassy.

“I hope that Iranian-Egyptian relations return to the full diplomatic level,” he told Reuters.

The trip follows a visit by Egypt’s new Islamist President Mohammed Mursi to Iran in August last year, when the two leaders agreed to reopen official embassies.

Tehran broke off relations with Cairo in 1980, a year after both Iran’s revolution and Egypt’s peace agreement with Israel.

Read more: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/02/264009.html

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Ahmadinejad To Make First Egypt Visit By Iran Head In Decades (Original Post) Purveyor Feb 2013 OP
It figures--he'd better get in there while the Brethren still have an iron grip on power. MADem Feb 2013 #1
I am wondering about the wisdom of more fighter jets and weapons to Egypt TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #2
Well, I'm betting the FMS guys in our gubmint share your concern! MADem Feb 2013 #3

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. It figures--he'd better get in there while the Brethren still have an iron grip on power.
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 01:00 PM
Feb 2013

They're starting to look more and more alike, those two countries--can the religious police, beating women for not wearing Islamic dress, be far behind in Egypt?

Actually, these days, there is a difference between the two leaders--Morsi still has a grip on the reins of power, notwithstanding some serious pushback from people in the streets who are realizing that this government was a BAAAAAD idea, while Ahmadinejad is a mere puppet of Khameini and has had what little power he had stripped from him--even his cronies were disallowed from the ballot in the last election. The wee ex-mayor of Teheran has Khameini's puppet hand up his butt,, and he won't say anything that is not approved by the ulema.

This will get complicated, as we pay Egypt a fortune every year in bribes to keep peace with Israel in foreign military sales and assistance.



TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
2. I am wondering about the wisdom of more fighter jets and weapons to Egypt
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 01:15 PM
Feb 2013

if they're going to develop friendly relations with Iran. I think this complicates things, as you say.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
3. Well, I'm betting the FMS guys in our gubmint share your concern!
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 02:22 PM
Feb 2013

It IS a carrot and stick game, after all.

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