The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says a road map has been outlined for negotiations between delegates from the Islamic Republic and Egypt on restoration of diplomatic ties.

The announcement was made after caretaker Prime Minister Kakar held an emergency security meeting with the military and intelligence chiefs.

A senior Egyptian official says Cairo and Tehran are expected to fully restore diplomatic ties and exchange respective ambassadors in the near future after more than four decades of estrangement.

President Raeisi congratulates his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on election victory.

The Belizean government has severed its diplomatic ties with Israel over the occupying regime’s “unceasing, indiscriminate bombing” of innocent Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

A top Iranian diplomat hails the recent meeting between the country’s foreign minister and his Egyptian counterpart as “very good and positive” on the path of restoration of full diplomatic ties.

Iran's new ambassador to Saudi Arabia arrives in Riyadh following the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries.