Iranian and Egyptian delegations are holding talks in Iraq and are preparing to resume diplomatic relations in the near future. According to TASS with reference to the Mehr news agency, this was announced by a member of the Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy of the Majlis (Parliament) of Iran, Fada Hussein Maliki.
“Negotiations between Iran and Egypt are ongoing in Iraq, and relations between the two countries will resume in the near future,” the parliamentarian said. According to him, first the embassies of the two states will be opened, after that “a meeting between Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will be organized.”
Diplomatic relations between Tehran and Cairo were severed in 1980 after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, when Egypt gave asylum to the deposed Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and also because of the signing of a peace agreement with Israel by the Arab Republic. The course towards the normalization of relations between the countries was taken only in 2010, but officially they have not been restored.
Source: Rosbalt
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