- Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:32 am
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(Reuters) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Egypt on Tuesday on the first trip by an Iranian president since the 1979 revolution, underlining a thaw in relations since Egyptians elected an Islamist head of state.
President Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood politician elected in June, kissed Ahmadinejad as he disembarked from his plane at Cairo airport. The leaders walked down a red carpet, Ahmadinejad smiling as he shook hands with waiting dignitaries.
Such a visit would have been unthinkable during the rule of Hosni Mubarak, the military-backed autocrat who preserved Egypt's peace treaty with Israel during his 30 years in power and deepened ties between Cairo and the West.
"The political geography of the region will change if Iran and Egypt take a unified position on the Palestinian question," Mursi said in an interview with Al Mayadeen, a Beirut-based TV station.
U.S. gift of F-16 fighters headed to Egypt, despite Morsi's harsh rhetoric. A source who works on the naval air base in Fort Worth, Texas, confirmed the departure of the state-of-the-art fighter planes. Sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks are enroute to the Egyptian government despite the military's and Congress' objections. Obama ordered the weapon systems be delivered without delay.]
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