Via Al Monitor
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Tuesday that his
government will not be offended if Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi
spends only a few hours in Iran later this week. In an interview with Al-Monitor and Time Magazine on the sidelines of a conference
of the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Salehi said the mere
“presence” of an Egyptian leader in Iran after decades of estrangement
between Iran and Egypt would be a “landmark.” Salehi repeated Iranian
offers to help resolve the crisis in Syria — offers that the Barack
Obama administration has rejected. The soft-spoken foreign minister, who
got his PhD in physics from MIT before the 1979 Iranian revolution and
previously served as Iran’s representative to the International Atomic
Energy Agency, also said he remains optimistic that a “win-win” solution
can be found to Iran’s nuclear confrontation with the US and much of
the international community despite the current apparent deadlock in
talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security
Council plus Germany (P5+1).
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