relations between Iran and Egypt after more than 40 years of rupture. Relations between the two countries were severed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the signing of a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. Iran financially and militarily supports Palestinian Islamist groups and a normalization of relations with Egypt can facilitate this support. Iran believes that it has emerged strengthened from these developments, especially since it has not given up anything on its regional policy, particularly with regard to Syria or Yemen. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian: "We have no bilateral problems"