FNA - Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish dismissed Arab media reports claiming that a Ukrainian oil tanker carrying Iran's oil to Syria has been seized in the Canal. "The Suez Canal Authority is bound to the freedom of international shipping in the Canal and permits all ships to cross the Canal except in special conditions," Mamish ...

IRNA The US attempts to form an anti-Iran coalition in the Middle East, known as the Arab NATO, has run into a stone wall.This is due to the fact that a rift between betwe the Persian Gulf's Arab littoral states has led to Egypt's withdrawal from the newly-forged coalition. Reuters recently reported that Egypt has pulled out of the Arab NATO. Egypt ...

IRNA - US efforts to form a coalition of Middle Eastern countries called 'Arab NATO' to confront the Islamic Republic of Iran failed from the very beginning due to the gulf created between the Persian Gulf states and Egypt's opposition to the decision. Reuters quoted four informed sources as saying that Egypt lagged behind the US strategic plan ...

IRNA Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Thursday that if news reports about Egypt's withdrawal from a US-led Arab NATO initiative come true, Iran would welcome Cairo's decision. Speakingto IRNA political correspondent, Qasemi said that the report carried by some news agencies has not been officially confirmed yet and Iran is ...

Sputnik - The news comes just one day after the Egyptian presidents visit to the White House. Egypt has decided to withdraw from US-led initiative to create a strategic alliance with key Arab allies, known as Middle East Security Alliance (MESA), Reuters reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Also known as "Arab NATO," the ...

IRNA Head of Palestine Islamic Resistance Movements Political Office Ismail Haniyeh said that their ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran are in no way contradictory to those with Egypt. Talking to reporters in his office in Gaza, he added that Hamas strategy is to boost relations with Arab and Islamic countries. Iran and Egypt are big countries ...

Press TV _ Iran'sForeign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has counteredUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's claims that "when America retreats, chaos often follows," saying actually the opposite is true. Whenever/wherever US interferes, chaos, repression, and resentment follow, Zarif tweeted on Thursday in response to Pompeo's remarks in Egypt whichraised ...

AP - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has begun a Mideast visit to talk to regional leaders about ramping up pressure on Iran. The trip comes amid confusion over conflicting Trump administration statements about a planned U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria. Pompeos first stop on Tuesday is pro-Western Jordan, followed by visits to Egypt and ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned the attack on a bus carrying Egyptian Christian. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi in a statement described the move as 'hateful'. The Iranian official expressed solidarity with the bereaved families of the victims and wished immediate recovery of the injured. Gunmen have killed ...

Tasnim Iranian national football team's head coach Carlos Queiroz has reportedly rejected Egypts offer to replace Hector Cuper. Hector Cuper has left his role after failing to pick up a point in the World Cup group stage and the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) was reportedly considering Queiroz as a new head coach. Cuper's team finished bottom ...

Press TV - Anofficial with the Palestinian Authority (PA) says top Israeli and Saudi officials held a series of secret Egypt-brokered meetings in Cairo, last week, as more signs emerge of warming relations between the two regimes. The unnamed official, told Emirati daily Khaleej Timeson Friday that the meetings were a significant development ...

Press TV - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has rejected allegations by Saudi Arabia and Egypt that Tehran interferes in the internal affairs of Arab countries. The claim of Irans interference in [the domestic affairs of] regional countries by any side is condemned, Qassemi said in a statement on Wednesday. The Islamic Republic ...

Press TV - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has announced that he will stand for re-election in thepresidential votedue to be heldin March. I announce to you in the honesty and transparency which we are used to... my candidacy for the post of president of the republic, Sisi said at a Cairo conferencebroadcast live on state television on ...

Press TV - The Sudanese army has deployed thousands of forces on the eastern border with Eritrea after Egypt, in coordination with the United Arab Emirates, dispatched its forces to a base in Eritrea. The Sudanese forces have been stationed at a garrison in the border state of Kassala, as both Sudan and Ethiopia have shut down their borders ...

Alwaght - Turkey-Egypt relations in past few years have gone through a series of highs and lows with the major reason being the political changes in Egypt and Turkeys way of dealing with them. The two countries first severed diplomatic ties in 1954 when Ankara declined to recognize the revolutionary government of Gamal Abdel Nasser. The two countries ...

MNA Touching upon tensions between Ankara and Cairo Nosratallah Tajik says both Turkey and Egypt are seeking regional hegemony. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been at loggerheads with the current Egyptian administration since his close ally, former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, was ousted by the military in 2013. However, ...

AP Former Secretary of State John Kerry says both Israel and Egypt pushed the United States to bomb Iran before the 2015 nuclear deal was struck. Kerry is defending the deal during a forum in Washington. He says kings and foreign presidents told the U.S. that bombing was the only language Iran would understand. But Kerry says that was a trap in ...

MNA Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has extended condolences to his Egyptian counterpart over the terrorist blast which killed scores of Muslim worshippers in El Arish. In a message to Egyptian Speaker of the House Ali Abdel Aal Sayyed Ahmed, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani sympathized with the parliament, government and people ...

IRNA Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday that terrorism does not differentiate between divine or human values as it does not differentiate between places whether they are mosques or houses of worship. Condemning the terrorist attack on a mosque in Egypt, Zarif wrote on his twitter account on Friday evening that the coward ...

Sputnik News-Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who unexpectedly announced his resignation on November 4, will arrive in Egypt on Tuesday, according to Lebanese media reports. According to Almustaqbal newspaper, which cites the Lebanese prime minister's press service, Saad Hariri will meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi during his upcoming ...