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Israel launched a 'limited' strike against Isfahan, southern Iran on early Friday. However, no damages to Iranian nuclear facilities were reported. The Israeli strike is a reprisal for Iran’s "extensive retaliatory drone strikes" against Israel, which had attacked the Iranian diplomatic mission in Syria’s Damascus on April 1.
However, the current conflict between Tehran and Tel Aviv poses one of the largest geopolitical risks to global oil markets since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war and the war on Gaza.
They also discussed the escalating tensions witnessed in recent weeks regarding the Gaza Strip crisis and its potential regional ramifications, which pose a serious threat to the security and stability of the region, according to a statement released by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
Shoukry expressed Egypt's profound concern regarding the unprecedented military escalation between Iran and Israel, which poses a threat of spiraling out of control, destabilizing the region, and jeopardizing the interests of its peoples, stated the Egyptian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ahmed Abu Zeid, in a Sunday statement.
The Israeli government wants to escalate the crisis into a regional war to stay in power even if that endangers its people, said Dr. Mohamed Hegazy, former assistant to the foreign minister.
Iran announced that it has launched "extensive retaliatory drone strikes" against Israel, while Middle Eastern countries including Iraq and Jordan closed their aerospace and suspended air aviation.
Egypt viewed the dangerous escalation unfolding in the Iranian-Israeli arena as a direct consequence of the warnings it has repeatedly issued regarding the perils of expanding conflict in the region, the statement added.
The source added that a crisis cell comprising all relevant agencies and institutions closely monitors developments in the regional situation, providing around-the-clock reports to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
While Iran announced that it closed their airspace until further notice, Israel also closed Ben Gurion Airport for 3 hours overnight and closed its aerospace.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shokry received Sunday a phone call from his Iranian counterpart Amir Abdel Lahyan.
In an end-to-end game at Al Thumama Stadium, Ali netted in the 82nd minute while Iran lost Shojae Khalilzadeh to a late red card in stoppage time as Iran coach Amir Ghalenoei lost for the first time since he took charge last year.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shokry received Thursday a phone call from his Iranian counterpart Hussein Amir Abdel Lahyan.
Egyptian Military Expert Samir Farag said in a phone-in with TV Presenter Ahmed Mousa Saturday that the attacks of Houthis in the Red Sea were not an expression of support to the Palestinian Cause.
Two explosions took place in the city of Kerman, near the tomb of the late leader of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. At least 100 people were killed in the two blasts and more than 140 others were injured, according to the Iranian Ministry of Interior.
The two ministers exchanged visions on the deteriorating humanitarian and security conditions in the Gaza Strip, and the international efforts to alleviate the humanitarian crisis that Palestinian people are suffering from.
The phone call is the second of its kind between the Egyptian and Iranian foreign ministers since the outbreak of fighting in Gaza on October 7 as the latter made a phone call to the former on October 22.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shokry received Sunday evening a phone call from his Iranian counterpart Hussein Amir Abd El Lahyan.
Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said that the latest decisions of the Arab summit in Jeddah regarding Turkey and Iran were less intense than before.
Egypt looks forward to the resumption of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Tehran having a positive impact on Iran’s international and regional policies, Spokesman of the Egyptian Presidency Ahmed Fahmy said in a statement on Saturday.
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