[An Nahar] Egypt's Tourism Minister Hisham Zazou said on Tuesday that tourism links with Iran had been suspended for reasons of "national security", state television... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
Flights bringing Iranian tourists to Egypt began under now ousted president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the
One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
, amid a thaw in relations between Cairo and Tehran.
But they were met with strong opposition from hardline Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
and suspicion from security services in Egypt, who had long accused Iran of meddling in the country.
In April Egypt suspended all tourist visits from Iran following objections by the ultra-conservative Sunni Islamists to any rapprochement with the Shiite Islamic republic.
The moratorium was lifted in May.
Zazou said "the suspension of tourism with Iran is related to national security," state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
Egypt and Iran severed ties after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, which was deeply hostile to Cairo's peace treaty with Israel.