Iranian official meets El-Azhar sheikh, Egyptian Mufti

In the shadow of the Iranian - Egyptian rapprochement, the head of the Iranian Culture and Islamic Communications Organization (CICO), Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri, met with the Imam of El-Azahr's Sayed Tantawi and Egyptian Mufti Farid Wassel, delivering invitations to visit Iran to each.

Taskhiri said, "The discussion was good and tackled political and cultural issues, cooperation between the scientific university in Iran and the honored Azhar and the development between the two universities as well as developing cultural and scientific relations between the two countries" assuring that "we all undertook illuminating disputes between the two countries as well as removing the dispute between Shiite and Sunni and exchanging experiences in this field."