Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Mubarak dismayed at Tehran, as demonstration gets "too personal"

Al Jazeera, here
Tehran demonstrators against the siege of Gaza

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Demonstrators protesting against Egypt's stance towards the lifting of the siege of Gaza banners denouncing the photo Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (Reuters)

Summoned the charge d'affaires in Cairo bureau Egyptian interests in Tehran following a demonstration in front of the first officers on Monday in protest at the closure of the Rafah crossing Egypt.

The news agency "Knight" Iran on Wednesday that "despite assurances to the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Akecquaoui that diplomatic missions in Tehran, subject to adequate security measures, Egypt decided to recall the work" from the capital of the Islamic Republic.

Several hundred students to the Office of the Egyptian interests section in Tehran Monday in protest at what they saw as an Egyptian cooperation with Israel regarding the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The office of Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday summoned the Charge of the Office of the Iranian interests section in Cairo, Egypt and told him a protest and indignation from protest to the Office of the Egyptian interests section in Tehran.

According to news agency MENA reported the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Iranian diplomat resentment of Egypt "Tdbej articles in the Iranian press Taatahjm to Egypt and its leadership, especially during the last few days."

Iran had recently sought to normalize its relations with Egypt, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that if Egypt agreed to normalize relations "Today, Iran would send an ambassador to Cairo tomorrow."

Tehran severed diplomatic ties with Cairo in 1979 because of the Camp David peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978.

Is still disagreement between the Iranian and Egyptian governments based on the situation of conflict with Israel, where a Cairo to peace with Israel, while Iran supports the positions of the forces of the Palestinian resistance, which believes that the force is the only way to defeat Israel.

Iran agreed later to change the name of a Tehran street named after Khaled Islamboli the assassination of president Anwar Sadat to the street "Intifada", but Egypt has not yet changed the name of a street in Cairo called Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi buried in a mosque, "Rifai" in Egypt .

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