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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Egypt sees Iran on a surge |
| 2008-06-16 |
| Egypt sees Iran “on a surge” in the Arab world, playing many political and diplomatic cards regardless of Arab interests, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in an interview. “The political cards which Iran holds... it holds out of a desire to defend Iranian interests. It might be Iran’s right to try, but Egypt has a right to defend Arab territory,” he added. “You now find that Iran is on a surge and it imagines that it is able to influence the region. Perhaps they can influence the region, but we always say to our friends in Iran: ‘Let the influence on the region be positive’,” he said. Aboul Gheit was speaking to the newspaper Rose Al Yousef and the state news agency MENA carried the text on Sunday. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #1 No doubt the influence will be positive. The question is for who. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-06-16 01:45 |