Investigating the negative effects of America's strategy towards Egypt on the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran: a case study of Al-Sisi's government

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
, hossein rafie 1
ali ebrahimi 1
Meisam Belbasi 2
ramin rastegar 3
1 University of Mazandaran
2 Islamic Revolution Studies, University of Tehran
3 Allameh Tabataba'i University
Abstract
One of the levers that reduce the influence and impact of the Islamic Republic in the region is the foreign aid of the United States of America in the form of political bribes to influential countries in geopolitical equations. In this regard, Egypt has been strongly dependent on the foreign aid (economic and military) of the United States since long ago, and in return, it should implement its wishes and demands. From this point of view, the current research tries to answer the main question that how the American foreign aid tool towards Egypt has caused the darkening of the relations between Egypt and Iran? The results that are used in the present article with the descriptive-analytical method, show that the foreign aid of the United States of America has been determined in the field of dependence of the Egyptian government in the form of "supporter-client" relationship. To the extent that such foreign aid is formulated as a tool and political bribe to influence and put pressure on Egypt in relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Therefore, it seems that it is not possible to establish a normalization and de-tension attitude in the relations based on the "Arab-Western" link and as long as the military-economic dependence of Egypt exists in the light of the foreign aid of the United States of America. A. Iran and Egypt are witnesses.
Keywords
United States of America
foreign aid
Al-Sisi
Egypt
Islamic Republic of Iran

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