WASHINGTON: Israel's ties with Cairo are safe and sound, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in comments aired Sunday, adding that Egypt's uprising shares little with the 1979 Iranian revolution.

"I don't think that the relationship between Israel and Egypt is under any risk, or that any kind of operational risk is waiting for us just behind the corner," Barak told ABC's "This Week" program.

"I don't believe that something similar to the Iranian events of years ago is happening now," he added, calling Egypt's revolution a "spontaneous" show of people power that was not orchestrated by extremist groups.