Egypt's Muslim president will visit Iran and forge new ties with them
Well, this is certainly bad news for Israel:
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi will attend a summit in Iran later this month, a presidential official said on Saturday, the first such trip for an Egyptian leader since relations with Tehran deteriorated decades ago.As AWR Hawkins notes with rightful concern, Egypt and Iran's Islamists could find common ground in their hatred of Israel. For now, let's face the reality that any real "peace" between Israel and Egypt never really was, and the situation will only get worse with what Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood have planned.
The visit could mark a thaw between the two countries after years of enmity, especially since Egypt signed its 1979 peace treaty with Israel and Iran underwent its Islamic revolution. Under Morsi's predecessor Hosni Mubarak, Egypt, predominantly Sunni Muslim, sided with Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-dominated Arab states in trying to isolate Shiite-led Iran.
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