Presidential candidate and former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gestures after casting his ballot in Cairo, May 26, 2014. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) - Egypt has invited Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to the inauguration ceremony of newly elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a trip that would make him only the second Iranian leader to visit Egypt since the countries severed ties in 1980.
Sisi, the former army chief who last year toppled Egypt's first freely elected leader, the Islamist Mohamed Mursi, is expected to be sworn in as president later this week after unofficial results showed he won a landslide victory in last month's election.
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