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Tehran-Cairo, the first direct flight after 30 years

Tehran, Iran - Could it be the first step in the resume of diplomatic relations?

On Monday, October 6, 2010, shortly after midnight, a Smart Avion Company jet arrived from Cairo to Tehran: it is the first direct air-link between Egypt and Iran after more than thirty years. The two Countries linked their diplomatic relations in 1980, due to a revolution of 1979 in Iran, around the charismatic figure of Ayatollah Khomeini and the peace of Egypt with Israel. Now Sameh Hefni,...

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Rome, Italy, 10/08/2010 18:34
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