Posted on 12/10/2008 1:34:11 PM PST by forkinsocket
CAIRO: Egypt’s Foreign Ministry summoned Iran’s diplomatic representative in Cairo on Tuesday over anti-Egypt protests in Tehran, which also led to the recall of the Egyptian envoy from the Iranian capital.
In a statement released by the ministry Tuesday, Egypt pointed out its objection to the protests — the last of which occurred on Monday — outside the Egypt interests section in Tehran over the blockade of Gaza.
The demonstration involving hundreds of students was against perceived Egyptian involvement in the Gaza siege, with its refusal to open the Rafah border crossing for Palestinians in the strip.
The demonstrators accused Egypt of cooperating with Israel by keeping the crossing closed and refusing to allow humanitarian convoys from reaching the besieged strip.
As a result of the demonstration, Egypt recalled its envoy from Iran on Wednesday despite assurances from Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi that the Egyptian interests’ office was secured against any threat.
The Foreign Ministry also criticized in its statement certain Iranian newspapers, without naming them, for continuously criticizing Egyptian policies and leadership.
A Foreign Ministry official told Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that Egypt did not pay credence to such protests, which seemed at odds to the Egyptian reaction.
“The students’ slogans are nonsense. Egypt and its leadership are much bigger than such matters. We know that there are pressure groups within Iran that are against the normalization of Egyptian-Iranian relations,” he said.
As Egypt and Iran do not have formal diplomatic relations, there are no embassies as such, but rather quasi-diplomatic offices to attend to any bilateral cooperation. Iran cut off formal diplomatic ties with Egypt in 1980 in protest over its recognition of Israel.
Relations have always been fraught between the two nations, but there seemed to have been some progress made in the last year, with visits between high-ranking officials of the two countries.
However, last July Egypt again called Iranian envoys to the foreign ministry to protest the screening of an Iranian film about the assassination of former President Anwar Sadat, which Egypt decried as insulting the relations between the two countries.
Going after fellow zombies——Maybe the lunatic Islamic Egyptians will take a break from murdering Coptic Christians for a while...
The Palestinians are nothing but chess figures for the islamo tyrannies to bitch over each other and to scapegoat the Jews. If given the Chance all those Muslim “brothers” would invade and devour each other. Saddam was the only one dumb enough to do it.
Last time Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing, Palestinians poured across the border and either stole everything in sight or paid for what they bought with counterfeit money.
Those Palis sure oar fun loving guys wherever they go aren’t they?
Iranians are up to their usual tricks of jockeying for credibility and influence in Mid East Islamic cuckooland by portraying themselves as the biggest “rejectionists” (of negotiations, recognition, and peace with Israel), “radicals” (anti-Western, belligerent toward Israel), and most steadfast supporters of the Palestinians (who have tilted somewhat more toward Iran recently, as measured by increased Palestinian support for the shiite Hezbollah). However, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have cards to play, too — the appeal to sunni orthodoxy and condemnation of Iranians and Hezbollah as heretics or “fire-worshippers”: not really Muslims at all but crypto-Zoroastrians; there’s also the appeal to Arab contempt for non-Arabs. I’ll take my popcorn with extra butter and watch the savages have at each other.
thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach for both pings:
‘Iran wants to devour the Arab world’ [Hosni Mubarak ]
Jerusalem Post | 12-10-08
Posted on 12/11/2008 5:10:18 AM PST by SJackson
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