Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have discussed the Mideast affairs by phone, the Egyptian MENA news agency reported on Tuesday.
In a phone call from Ahmadinejad to Mubarak late Monday, the two presidents discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian and Lebanese arena, the MENA report said, without giving more details.
It is believed to be the first direct contact between Mubarak, who took office in 1981, and Ahmadinejad, elected president in June 2005.
This is also regarded as the latest sign of improvement in bilateral relations, analysts said.
An Iranian parliamentary delegation headed by Parliament Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel is scheduled to visit Cairo next week, another MENA report said.
During a private visit to Egypt earlier this month, former Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said that relations between the two countries were improving after several top Iranian officials had visited Egypt.
In May 2007, the Iranian president said that his country was ready to open an embassy in Cairo as soon as Egypt agreed to do the same in Tehran. He had also asserted that he favors resuming ties which would be "in the interest of the two peoples."
Bilateral relations between Egypt and Iran, which were frozen after the Iranian revolution in 1979, have witnessed a gradual warm-up in recent years. Iran and Egypt currently only have interests sections in each other.
Source: Xinhua
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