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People hold posters with an image of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Al-Hussein mosque, named after Prophet Mohammed's grandson Hussein ibn Ali, before Ahmadinejad's visit to the mosque in old Cairo February 5, 2013. Ahmadinejad was both kissed and scolded on Tuesday when he began the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Tehran's 1979 Islamic revolution. The trip was meant to underline a thaw in relations since Egyptians elected an Islamist head of state, President Mohamed Mursi, l — People hold posters with an image of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Egypt's Al-Hussein Mosque before Ahmadinejad's visit, in old Cairo, Feb. 5, 2013, six months before Ahmadinejad's term as president ended. — REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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