Iranian media pushing rapprochement with Egypt? “Yasser Othman, the head of Egypt’s Interests Section office in Tehran, met with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday to discuss regional issues,” the state-backed Tehran Times reports in what we’re taking as the latest sign of rapprochement between Cairo and Tehran. The prominence of the story in a tightly controlled media outlet underscores to us (Iran neophytes though we may be) that appetite on the Iranian side for closer ties could be significant.