Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohammed Morsi says he wants to restore long-severed ties with Iran to create a strategic balance in the region.
His comments may unsettle Western powers as they seek to isolate Iran over its nuclear programme, which they suspect it is using to build atomic bombs. Tehran denies this.
Diplomatic relations between Egypt and Iran were severed in 1980 following Cairo's formal recognition of Israel and Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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