(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Member of El-Tahalef El-Sha’ab Party, visiting Iran with a delegation of media, religious and political figures explained the meeting aimed at knowing and introducing Islamic Republic of Iran free from the global misrepresentation of the truth about Iran.
“Following the 25th Revolution of Egypt, the motto of “Liberation from Dependence and Modesty” have been among the most important aims of the revolution; hence, independence in decision making has had a very important status for the Egyptian nation.
Al-Zaghbi stressed the point that Egyptian nation is determined to make decisions for its political future without the interference of other countries.
“The issue of resuming friendly ties with Iran is under discussion at the moment and Egyptian nation will decide about that without maintaining the interests of other countries.” said the Egyptian official.
He rejected the claims over opposition of the Egyptian nation with resumption of ties with Iran and said the reason for such claims is occupation of the Egyptian people with domestic issues.
He said, “It is not right that Israeli citizens deserve visa-free travels to Egypt while Iranian citizens are not granted a visa to Egypt.”
Member of Committee of Foreign Relations in Egypt’s Parliament said Egypt in resuming the relations with Islamic Republic of Iran maintains interests of the nation and added, “Political, Economic and Strategic ties with Iran is not impossible particularly when throughout the history there has been no hostile backgrounds in Tehran-Cairo ties.”
On the hurdles brought by some political or extremist Islamic groups, he said, “Some are trying to obstacle the ways under the pretext of stopping the spread of Shia in Egypt while Egyptian people are quite aware not to base its interests on such rumors.”
Al-Zaghbi added, “Religion does not blockade Iran-Egypt ties but it is a fake obstacle to frighten the Egyptian people and preventing the increase of fraternal relations between these countries.”
He said proximity of Islamic denominations has a long background in Egypt and slammed the enemies for efforts to fuel the disagreements between Shia and Sunni while Sheikh Shaltout and Allameh Ghomi made great efforts to found proximity institutions and Jafari Shia is recognized as the fifth denomination besides the four Sunni denominations in Egypt.
Member of Egypt’s political party also referred to several commonalities of Shia and Sunni saying, “We and our Shia brothers are in common in the main bases of Islam including the Shahadatain (two testimonies of Islam), Prayers, Zakat (portion of wealth given for charity), fasting and Hajj pilgrimage.
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