Egypt

Egypt has become a consistent diplomatic participant in efforts to resolve the 2026 Iran conflict. Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty joined the Islamabad Four on 30 March and attended the third Antalya quartet meeting on 18 April, where scope expanded to sanctions relief, maritime security, and multi-state ceasefire guarantees . Cairo controls the Suez Canal, through which roughly 12% of global trade passes; sustained conflict directly threatens an estimated bn in annual canal revenues.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has positioned Egypt as a neutral broker, balancing its 1979 Camp David peace treaty with Israel against Arab solidarity pressure. Egypt receives .3bn in US annual military aid, reinforcing Washington alignment, yet co-signed the Islamabad statement alongside states hostile to Israel. With a population of 105 million and an economy still recovering from a currency crisis and an IMF bailout, Egypt is acutely exposed to any disruption to Suez traffic and regional tourism.

Egypt's Mediation role is structurally constrained: its dependence on US military aid and the Camp David framework limits how FAR Cairo can diverge from Washington's position. Yet the Antalya quartet — Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Pakistan — has become the principal multilateral diplomatic vehicle outside the US-Iran bilateral track, and Egypt's presence alongside Saudi Arabia gives the grouping Arab legitimacy it would otherwise lack.