After the Iranian Islamic President was given the red carpet arrival honors,
The Egyptian Foreign Minister made a statement:
The President of Iran had a different take on the importance of the visit in statements he reportedly made to the Egyptian media:From the linked reuters article wrote:
Egypt's foreign minister played down the significance of the visit, telling Reuters the Iranian leader, one of several heads of state to get the red-carpet treatment, was in Cairo chiefly for the Islamic summit beginning on Wednesday, "so it's just a normal procedure. That's all."
From the linked reuters article wrote:
Ahmadinejad said outside forces were trying to prevent a rapprochement between the Middle East's two most populous nations, at odds since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and Egypt's signing of a peace treaty with Israel in the same year.
"We must all understand that the only option is to set up this alliance because it is in the interests of the Egyptian and Iranian peoples and other nations of the region," the official MENA news agency quoted him in remarks to Egyptian journalists published on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/ ... EK20130206