Iran, Egypt leaders hold first two-way meeting

TEHRAN: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi on Thursday discussed the Syrian conflict and their countries' long severed ties in a first two-way meeting, an official said.

"They emphasised the need to solve the Syria crisis via diplomacy and to prevent foreign intervention," Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told Iran's Arabic-language broadcaster Al-Alam.

"They also discussed the ways to boost the level of Tehran-Cairo relations," he said.