Iranian government spokesman Ali Bahadri Jahromi referred at a press conference “to statements by Iranian tour guide Ali Khamenei about Iran’s readiness to develop relations with Egypt,” Iranian Tasneem news agency reported. Jahrami confirmed: “Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi has instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take the necessary measures following the statements of the leader of the revolution, Ali Khamenei.” He said during a meeting with the Sultan of Oman, Haytham bin Tariq, that he welcomed Egypt’s position and “Tehran has no problems in this regard,” Iranian Tasneem news agency reported.
In addition, the Egyptian presidency reported that President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to immediately start updating diplomatic relations between the two countries and the exchange of ambassadors. In a statement, a spokesman for the Egyptian president said that Sisi and Erdogan, during a telephone conversation, reaffirmed “the depth of historical ties that bind the two countries, the Egyptian and Turkish peoples, and agreed to strengthen the bonds of relations and cooperation between the two sides,” the Arab World News Agency reported.
