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February 10, 2013

Preventing an Unholy Iran-Egypt Alliance

The Australian, The Australian

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Talk of a new strategic axis between Iran and Egypt may be premature, but the significance of the red-carpet reception accorded President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Cairo cannot be overstated. It is the first visit by an Iranian leader to the Egyptian capital since relations were severed by Tehran's newly empowered ayatollahs 34 years ago following the signing of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty.

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