TEHRAN: The wife of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged Egypt s first lady to use her influence to secure help for Palestinians in Gaza, in a letter to Suzanne Mubarak carried by the state news agency IRNA on Sunday.
You could guide your husband and ask him to open the way to help Palestinian people and prevent a worsened human tragedy, wrote Azam Al-Sadat Farahi to Hosni Mubarak s wife, alluding to the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza.
The opportunity to serve people especially the oppressed is a divine gift and it will bring about God s rage if the chance is missed, she said, in a rare public move by a wife of an Iranian leader.
The nations are awaiting an Islamic and human move on your part and from the Egyptian government.
Tehran broke off diplomatic ties with Cairo in 1980, a year after Iran s Islamic revolution in protest at Egypt recognizing Israel and hosting the deposed shah.
Several Iranian officials have harshly criticized the Egyptian government in recent weeks over its position on the Israeli military offensive in Gaza.
Egypt says that the Rafah crossing can only be opened to normal traffic if European Union observers and Palestinian Authority forces are at the border.
Demonstrators have held daily protests in front of the Egyptian interests section in Tehran with an Islamist student group going as far as offering a $1-million award for anyone who assassinates Mubarak. -AFP
