The Head of Iran's Interest Section in Egypt Mojtaba Amani said that a high-level delegation is accompanying the Iranian president, including the foreign minister.

President Ahmadinejad will meet with the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayyīb, and a number of senior [Islamic] scholars to enhance bilateral work in the future towards a unified Islamic rank.

Iran and Egypt resumed bilateral ties after the Egyptian Revolution in 2011; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Egypt is the first since the Iranian Islamic revolution in1979 (Ahmad al-Bihayrī and Khalīfah Jāballah, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Feb. 5). Read original text in Arabic.