CAIRO : Iranians Are Back
Iran takes another step toward patching up its relations with the Arab world when it participates for the first time in several years in this week’s annual meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Cairo.
Iran’s isolation from its fellow Muslims in the Arab world was exacerbated by its long and bloody war with Iraq, but in another gesture earlier this month Tehran sent its foreign minister to Kuwait.
Among other issues, the 46 Islamic members are expected during their five-day meeting to criticize Saudi Arabia’s handling of pilgrimages to Mecca and to plot strategy for defending the controversial “Zionism is racism” resolution in the United Nations.
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