The spokesman for Iran s foreign ministry, Naseer Kanaani, said on Monday that Tehran wants to improve relations with Egypt, days after it was announced that Iran and Saudi Arabia had re-established.
CAIRO: On Oct. 6, 1981, Islamist extremists gunned down Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as he reviewed troops at a military parade in Cairo to celebrate the country’s 1973 war against Israel. Sadat’s bullet-riddled body was rushed to the Maadi Military Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:40 p.m. due to “intense nervous shock and internal bleeding in the chest cavity.”