Egypt FM: Iran’s Araqchi to visit Cairo Thursday amid regional tensions

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi would visit Cairo on Thursday as regional tensions still continue.

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Date: 16 October 2024 - 14:51

TABNAK, Oct, 16: Araqchi has already traveled to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman and arrived in Jordan on Wednesday as another part of Iran’s diplomatic move to help establish peace in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip amid Zionist regime’s crimes and aggression in the region.

Iran fired a barrage of missiles towards at the Israeli entity’s military, and espionage and intelligence bases all over the occupied territories on October 1 as part of Operation True Promise II.

The operation came in response to the regime’s assassination of senior leaders of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance front and a commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). Israel has since vowed to respond.

Israeli war on Gaza and Lebanon has so far claimed the lives of more than 42,300 Palestinians and upwards of 2,300 Lebanese people.