Mottaki made the remarks in a meeting with university students at Tarbiat Modarress (Instructors' Training) University yesterday.

Given the commonalities as well as differences of opinion between the two countries, he said, "We will wait to witness ongoing developments in Egypt."

Egypt is to chair Non-Aligned Movement in the near future and there are ample of grounds for mutual cooperation between the two countries, he said.

On recent developments in Iran-Morocco relations which led to the severance of diplomatic ties between the two countries, he said, "We regard Morocco as an Islamic state and if the country wishes to rectify its misunderstanding on ties with Iran, we can study the restoration of ties in a positive manner."

On the U.S. president's slogan of 'Change', he said the fact is that there is no a permanent strategy to foment enmity between the two countries.

"We are to study the performance of the U.S. administration and if there is any real change, we would welcome it," he said.

President Obama has explicitly confessed to the failures of the past U.S. administrations but recognition is half the cure and the remainder is a correct diagnosis by an expert, he said.