Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak compared Iran's growing influence in the Middle East to a "cancer," according to a cable released by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
"President Mubarak has made it clear that he sees Iran as Egypt's — and the region's — primary strategic threat," says the secret cable, sent April 28, 2009, from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. "His already dangerous neighborhood, he has stressed, has only become more so since the fall of Saddam, who, as nasty as he was, nevertheless stood as a wall against Iran, according to Mubarak. He now sees Tehran's hand moving with ease throughout the region, 'from the Gulf toMorocco,' as he told a recent congressional delegation."
The cable notes, however, that "Mubarak's focus on the Iranian threat differs somewhat from ours."
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