Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has not made a decision to visit Egypt even though the two countries are considering a resumption of diplomatic ties, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

Head of the Information and Communications Department of Iran's Presidential Office Mohammad Jafar Behdad said that any decision in this regard would be made by the president himself and he has not announced any decision yet.

"Announcement of the president's stance on such issues is publicized either directly by the president himself or through his information office," Behdad said.

He was responding to a report by the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram that had quoted Iran's ambassador to Syria as saying that Ahmadinejad was willing to pay a visit to Egypt.

Behdad noted that the Iranian envoy "has just said that the Iranian president was ready to visit all the Muslim and Arab countries, and he has not singled out Egypt."

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday that Egypt has welcomed Ahmadinejad's offer to re-establish full diplomatic relations between Tehran and Cairo.

Earlier in May, Ahmadinejad said in a speech that his country was ready to open an embassy in Cairo as soon as Egypt agreed to do the same in Tehran.

Iran broke off diplomatic relations with Egypt after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 to protest Egypt's peace deal with Israel and its decision to provide temporary refuge for the deposed shah.

Source: Xinhua