Egypt and Iran hold first high-level meeting in decades

CAIRO, Jan 30 (AFP): Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks with Iran's parliament speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel on Wednesday, the first such high-level meeting since the two nations froze ties almost 30 years ago. Haddad-Adel hailed his “very good” meeting with Mubarak, whom he said had insisted on rejecting any pressure from Washington aimed at stopping the resumption of diplomatic ties. “The fact that I'm here is proof of the improvement in relations between the Islamic republic and Egypt,” Haddad-Adel told journalists.