Iran Seeks Promoting Ties With Egypt: Iranian Minister
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic is ready to promote bilateral political ties with Egypt to “the ambassadorial level.”
Iran is interested in promoting political ties with Egypt “to the level of ambassador,” ICANA, the Iranian Majlis (parliament) official news agency, quoted Salehi on Monday.
Salehi said the election of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi as president had “opened a new chapter in Egypt’s foreign policy.”
“By electing Morsi as president, the Egyptians took an important step and concluded their revolution,” he stressed.
The Iranian foreign minister described the current ties with Cairo as positive and advancing in all dimensions.
“The Iranian Foreign Ministry hopes that the outlook for Egypt’s foreign policy will be better than the past and the new government of this country will take more serious measures to establish more expansive and deeper ties with the Muslim world,” Salehi said.
Iran severed ties with Egypt after Cairo signed the 1978 Camp David Accords with the Israeli regime and offered asylum to the deposed Iranian dictator, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 
On June 24, after days of delay, Egypt’s Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission announced Morsi as the winner of the county’s presidential runoff. He picked up 13.2 million votes out of just over 26 million ballots, according to Press TV.
