The Iranian Foreign Minister’s visit to Egypt comes as part of an expanded tour in the region. Cairo is considered its eighth stop, and carries a main demand, according to Tehran, “to support efforts to stop the war in Gaza and Lebanon,” while observers believe that its goal is “to avoid an expected Israeli escalation and the threat of a harsh response against Tehran.” .
Experts spoke about the Iranian Foreign Minister’s visit to Cairo, the messages and implications it carries, and what Tehran seeks through its Foreign Minister’s “shuttle” tour of the region’s capitals, which includes Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey, and by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon, Syria, and the Sultanate of Oman.
The expert in Iranian affairs and head of the Arab Forum for Analysis of Iranian Policies, Dr. Muhammad Mohsen Abu Al-Nour, believes that the Iranian Foreign Minister’s tour of the active countries in the region is extremely important in the Iranian perception, with the aim of “building a political and diplomatic bloc of Arab and Islamic countries against the Israeli escalation and continued aggression against Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and a number of countries in the region.”
In his speech, the Iranian affairs expert suggested that the Iranian Foreign Minister’s tour came based on the directives of the Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution, Ali Khamenei, which he approved last September 21 at the “Islamic Unity” conference hosted by Tehran, in which he called on the Islamic world “to unite in the face of Israeli aggression.” On Arab and Islamic countries,” stressing that Tehran aims “to unite the largest possible number of Arab and Islamic societies against Israel.”
The head of the Arab Forum for Analyzing Iranian Policies believes that Iran “wants to extract positions from influential Arab countries that support Tehran in its current conflict with Israel,” and among those capitals are Cairo, Riyadh, Amman, Doha, and Muscat.
While the former Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister, Ambassador Mohamed Hegazy, spoke about Iran’s view of the dangers of the current confrontation with Israel, and the dangers that the entire region could be exposed to in the event of an increase in Iranian-Israeli escalation, which is “what Tehran is well aware of,” which prompted the Iranian Foreign Minister to do so. The shuttle tour of a number of decision-making capitals in the region.
The former Egyptian diplomat believes that the Iranian minister’s tour was primarily aimed at sending messages to the American administration and the Israeli government through those capitals, about the need to contain the Israeli reaction to the operation carried out by Tehran on October 1, in which it fired about 200 missiles at Israel, which it considered “a response to The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and Hassan Nasrallah.”
The diplomatic expert believes that Iran is proving through this tour that it is “unwilling to ignite the region in a fierce war that no one can imagine how to end.” It is, as he described it, “a move by Iranian diplomacy to try to explain its position and confirm its desire not to enter into a bloody conflict with Israel.” .
The Egyptian diplomat believes that Iran is likely to seek “to contain the Israeli strike and not to prevent it,” given Iran’s understanding that the Israeli response is “inevitably coming,” but Tehran, as he described it, “will not remain silent if a strategic strike is directed against it by targeting its nuclear or oil projects.” However, it is possible Iran can bear the Israeli strike if it is directed at an Iranian military target.
In the opinion of the diplomatic expert, the most important pressure message in which the Iranian Foreign Minister seeks to obtain the support of the capitals of the region is “pressure on the American administration” because it is the only one that can pressure Israel regarding the accuracy and strength of its response to Iran, considering that “the United States of America is the one who has The Israeli war decision against Iran” and that it cannot be a purely Israeli decision because any escalation between Tehran and Tel Aviv is tantamount to “a direct threat to American interests in the region with its impact.”
Source: RT
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