Egyptian FM: Leaks show strength of Egyptian positions

Egypt's foreign minister said on Saturday information released by the WikiLeaks website showed there was no contradiction between Egyptian officials' public and private statements, the state news agency reported.

Leaked US diplomatic cables show Egypt to be anxious about Iran's influence over its Hezbollah and Hamas proxies and groups like Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. "All the US diplomatic cables leaked on the Wikileaks site and that talk about Egypt prove that what Egyptian officials say in closed meetings is what they say in public," MENA news agency quoted Ahmed Aboul Gheit as saying at a joint news conference with his Australian counterpart. (Reuters)