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Why’s Tel Aviv Concerned about Progress in Iran-Egypt Ties?

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Alwaght, May 20, 2023
 
“…. for the Israelis, Egypt’s moving towards Iran means losing a good ally in the Arab world.”
 
[The] Israeli regime, which has always used tensions among regional countries as a breathing space to break its isolation and advance the normalization with Arab countries, is struck with confusion, concern, and despair about the future now as the regional developments, especially the relations between Iran and Arab countries, are moving to de-escalation. 

Having failed to hinder improvement of the relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, the Israeli officials are now struggling to, at least, put the skids under rejuvenated interactions of other Arab countries with Iran. Egypt is one of the countries that After Tehran-Riyadh détente agreement voiced its readiness to mend ties with Iran, and to this end, meetings were held between the two countries’ officials. 

In this regard, Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Wednesday in a report wrote that as Iranian officials are working to prepare the atmosphere for resuming, Israeli envoys secretly visit Cairo to press the Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about the need to stop mending Tehran-Cairo relations. 

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