{"id":200113,"date":"2025-06-14T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T05:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-iran-egypt-initiate-a-new-chapter-of-rapprochement-amid-growing-regional-tensions\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T05:37:16","slug":"egypt-iran-egypt-initiate-a-new-chapter-of-rapprochement-amid-growing-regional-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-iran-egypt-initiate-a-new-chapter-of-rapprochement-amid-growing-regional-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Iran, Egypt Initiate a New Chapter of Rapprochement Amid Growing Regional Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>The move is seen as a turning point that would make normalization between the two major regional actors closer than ever, after decades of unstable relations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Iranian Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/News\/547446.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abbas Araghchi<\/a> concluded a one-day visit Monday, June 2, to Egypt&#8217;s capital, Cairo, during which he met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">As part of the visit, a meeting was also held between al-Sisi, Araghchi, and head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (<a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506110139.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move is seen as a turning point that would make normalization between the two major regional actors closer than ever, after decades of unstable relations. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi concluded a one-day visit Monday, June 2, to Egypt&#8217;s capital, Cairo, during which he met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Egyptian Foreign Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":200114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,23408,4697,415,10778,13714,7539,257,40062,4268,254,7182],"class_list":["post-200113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chapter","tag-egypt","tag-growing","tag-initiate","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-rapprochement","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}