CAIRO: Egypt's new President-elect Mohamed Morsi was quoted by Iran's Fars news agency as saying he wants to boost relations between the country and Iran in the near future. According to the agency's report, Morsi was quoted as saying that he pledged to increase relations with Iran to create a “strategic balance in the region.” “Part of my agenda is the development of ties between Iran and Egypt that will create a strategic balance in the region,” Morsi, who comes from Egypt's long-repressed Muslim Brotherhood, was quoted as saying. Fars, which is closely linked to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards, said the full interview would be published at a later date. It said Morsi spoke with a Fars reporter in Cairo on Sunday before results were released giving him victory in the election to be Egypt's next president. Although Morsi resigned from the Muslim Brotherhood to take the top job, Israel remains wary of his election, fearing his Islamist record could jeopardize its three-decade peace deal with its huge neighbor. But Morsi, on Sunday evening in his first national address post-election results, said he would respect all treaties established by Egypt, ostensibly including the Camp David accords with Israel.
