Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's speech at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran 'all but completed Iran's isolation'. Photograph: Handout/REUTERS
New Poll: Egyptians Turning Toward Iran, Want Nuclear Weapons -- The Cable/Foriegn Policy
A poll of Egyptians conducted last month shows that they have increasingly positive views of Iran, believe that both Iran and Egypt should obtain nuclear weapons, and still trust their own military more than any other institution in Egypt.
The poll of 812 Egyptians, half of them women, was conducted in a series of in-person interviews by the firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and sponsored by the Israel Project, a pro-Israel advocacy organization with offices in Washington and Jerusalem. According to the poll, Iran is viewed favorably in Egypt, with 65 percent of those surveyed expressing support of the decision to renew Egypt-Iran relations and 61 percent expressing support of the Iranian nuclear project, versus 41 percent in August 2009.
Sixty-two percent of those polled agreed that "Iran and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are friends of Egypt," though 68 percent held unfavorable views of Shiite Muslims.
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My Comment: This should send a chill through everyone. Fortunately .... Egypt`s dire economic situation makes such a nuclear program impossible to proceed, but their support of Iran can have consequences that will not only impact Israel, but the entire Middle East in general. My prediction .... Saudi Arabia will pressure Egypt to not go down this road.