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Wednesday 19 October 2016 - 15:54
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How Syria is pushing Iran and Egypt closer

TEHRAN, Iran Once again, Egypt and Iran appear to be heading toward rapprochement, with increasingly converging views on Syria bringing the two regional powers closer together.

Tehran and Cairo have long followed a pattern of enthusiasm about normalizing ties only to see rapprochement remain a mirage. In December 2003, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held a groundbreaking meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Khatami on the sidelines of a UN technology summit in Geneva.

The meeting the first between an Iranian and an Egyptian head of state since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran generated talk of rapprochement, but such a thing never occurred. More recently, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traveled to Cairo in February 2013, a landmark visit in which he was greeted by his Egyptian counterpart Mohammed Morsi on arrival but again with no real subsequent warming of relations.

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This article was written by Rohollah Faghihi for Al-Monitor on Oct. 18, 2016. Rohollah Faghihi is a journalist who has worked for various Iranian media outlets.
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