Ahmadinejad invites Mursi to visit

Today Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially invited Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi to come to Tehran in the near future, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, said on a visit to Cairo.

Salehi said that the aim of his visit to Cairo is to discuss Iranian-Egyptian relations, which require strengthening in several fields. The minister said that rapprochement between the two countries began immediately after the revolution on January 25, 2011 that toppled Hosni Mubarak's regime.

Speaking of the situation in the Middle East, the Iranian foreign minister said that "foreign governments have no right to interfere in the affairs of Middle Eastern countries in an attempt to resolve the crises in the region," RIA Novosti reports.