Do Iran and Egypt exchange ambassadors?

Foreign Policy Group of Fars News Agency; Egyptian Foreign Affairs Council member “Rekha Ahmad Hassan” announced on the 8th of December the possibility of “exchange of ambassadors between Iran and Egypt” after the inauguration ceremony of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and referring to the phone call of Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi with Abdel Fattah. El-Sisi, the Egyptian counterpart, who recently became the president of Egypt for the third time and will be in this position for the next 6 years, said that the relations between the two countries have “expanded” significantly.

News was published about Ayatollah Raisi’s phone call with his Egyptian counterpart and congratulating him on his victory in the Egyptian presidential election. In this phone call, Al-Sisi announced the country’s readiness to take practical steps to resolve issues with Iran. The issues that after the victory of the Islamic revolution led to the reduction of the level of relations between the two countries and the appointment of the protector of interests in Tehran and Cairo.

Before this, the presidents of Iran and Egypt on the sidelines of the meeting of the Arab leaders and Islami met each other in Riyadh on November 20. A meeting that was preceded by the meeting of the two foreign ministers in September of this year and on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, which led to agreements on the expansion of bilateral relations. The meeting, which the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Kanani, considered as positive and a new development in the relations between the two countries, and expressed hope that more steps will be taken in the future.

After the meeting of the foreign ministers of Iran and Egypt in New York, the Minister of Economy and Seyyed Ehsan Khandouzi’s finance attended the meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Bank in Egypt and met with the Egyptian Minister of Finance “Mohammed Moit” and discussed business and economic relations. In addition to that, a meeting was held between the speaker of the parliament, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, and his Egyptian counterpart, Hanif Jabali, at the 9th Parliamentary Assembly of the BRICS member states in Johannesburg. Two days after the presidents’ phone call, the minister The Foreign Affairs Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hossein Amirabdollahian, had a telephone conversation with his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh al-Shakri, on the 4th of January, and while congratulating on the successful holding of the Egyptian presidential elections, he emphasized the need to follow up on the agreements between the two presidents. This was the fourth phone conversation between the foreign ministers since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa storm and the main focus of it was the current situation in Gaza and the lifting of the human blockade in this area. In June of this year, the Sultan of Oman visited Tehran and met with the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution and announced Egypt’s desire to resume relations with Iran. On the 8th of June, the Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq visited Egypt and met with Al-Sisi, and after that, during his trip to Tehran, in a meeting with the Supreme Leader, he mentioned Egypt’s desire to resume relations with Iran. The Supreme Leader of the Revolution announced in this regard, “We welcome this position and we have no problem in this regard.” We are now planning to “witness the improvement of relations” at the right time and according to the plan we agree on. Iran does not have any restrictions for the comprehensive development of cooperation with Egypt and welcomes the expansion of relations.

Two days before the telephone consultation between the foreign ministers of Iran and Egypt, on January 2, Amir Abdullahian, in a press conference on the sidelines of the Tehran International Conference on Palestine, agreed with his Egyptian counterpart in September to return He pointed to the normal state of relations, as well as the meeting of the presidents in Riyadh and the agreements reached, and expressed hope that at the right time, based on the design of the two foreign ministers, we will see the development and progress of relations that benefit the two countries, the region and the Islamic world.

While this Egyptian official announces the possibility of an exchange of ambassadors between Iran and Egypt after the inauguration ceremony of Al-Sisi. In an interview with Fars reporter, regional expert Seyed Hadi Seidafaqhi previously mentioned the partnership between Iran and Egypt in BRICS, which is supposed to start in January 2024, and added: “We will partner with the Egyptians in BRICS, and with the will that Al-Sisi has shown regarding relations with Iran announced that after the presidency, our relations will be more serious.

Of course, he pointed to the reaction of the Zionists in this regard and said that they continue to disrupt their work. What Ayman Salameh, a member of the Egyptian Council of Foreign Affairs, said in an interview with Al-Arabi Al-Jadid newspaper on October 1st that the Zionist regime is one of the obstacles in the way of the normalization of Iran-Egypt relations.

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