Mursi To Strengthen Ties with Iran, Reconsider Treaty with "Israel"
Egypt's Islamist president-elect, Mohammed Mursi, announced that he "wants to reconsider the peace deal with "Israel" and build ties with Iran to create a strategic balance in the Middle East."
In an interview published by Iran's Fars news agency on Monday, Mursi stressed that "we will reconsider the Camp David Accord."
Just before his election triumph was announced, the new President said that "the issue of Palestinian refugees returning to homes of their families abandoned in the 1948 Arab-"Israeli" war and the 1967 Six-Day War is very important."
Mursi added though that "all these issues will be carried out through cabinet and governmental bodies because I will not take any decision on my own."
In parallel, Mursi also said he "was ready to improve ties with Iran."
The Islamic republic broke off diplomatic relations with Egypt in 1980, a year after Cairo signed the peace deal with the Jewish state.
"Part of my agenda is the development of ties between Iran and Egypt that will create a strategic balance in the region," Mursi highlighted.
It is worth mentioning that Fars announced that the full interview would be published later.
Meanwhile, Iran's foreign ministry on Sunday welcomed Mursi's triumph. This came as an armed forces chief of staff, General Hassan Firouzabadi, stressed to IRNA that "the Muslim Brotherhood's rejects of moves by Egypt's military to dissolve the Islamist-led parliament and to give itself a greater say over government policy and the constitution."
"The actions of the military council in Egypt, which considers itself to be selected by Mubarak, lack legal validity and political legitimacy," Firouzabadi said.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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