(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The survey was conducted by the firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and sponsored by the Israel Project, a pro-Israel advocacy organization with offices in the US and Israel among 812 Egyptian respondents, Foreign Policy reported on Friday.
The poll showed that Iran is increasingly viewed favorably among the Egyptians, with 65 percent of the respondents voicing support for expansion of Tehran-Cairo ties.
Sixty one percent of the respondents expressed support for Iran’s nuclear energy program, showing a significant increase compared with the 41-percent figure in August 2009.
According to the survey, 62 percent of those polled underlined the fact that the Iranian nation and government “are friends of Egypt.”
The Rosner survey also showed the Egyptians’ rising antagonism towards Israel, with 74 percent of the respondents opposing to continuation of Cairo-Tel Aviv ties and 77 percent calling for dissolution of Egypt-Israel peace treaty.
Iran severed ties with Egypt after Cairo signed the 1978 Camp David Accords with the Israeli regime and offered asylum to Iran's deposed monarch Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
However, the Egyptian revolution in February 2011 which led to the ouster of Egypt’s former dictator Hosni Mubarak, thawed the three-decade frosty ties between Tehran and Cairo.
At a meeting between Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi in Tehran on August 30, the two presidents called Tehran and Cairo “strategic allies.”
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