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DUBAI (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Mursi voiced interest in restoring long-severed ties with Tehran to create a strategic "balance" in the region, in an interview published on Monday with Iran's Fars news agency.
Mursi's comments
are likely to unsettle Western powers as they try to isolate Iran over
its disputed nuclear program, which they suspect it is using to develop a
nuclear weapons capability. Tehran denies this.
Since former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak
was toppled by a popular uprising last year, both countries have
signaled their interest in renewing ties which were severed more than 30
years ago.
"We must restore
normal relations with Iran based on shared interests, and expand areas
of political coordination and economic cooperation because this will
create a balance of pressure in the region," Mursi was quoted as saying in a transcript of the interview.
Fars said it had spoken to Mursi a few hours before Sunday's announcement that declared him the winner of Egypt's presidential election.
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