Relations between the two countries collapsed in 1980, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in Iran’s Islamic Revolution and severed ties in response to Egypt’s formal recognition of Israel the previous year. Egypt’s then-president, Anwar El Sadat, granted the exiled Shah of Iran permission to live in Egypt, and supported Iraq in its eight-year war with the Islamic Republic.
阿亚图拉·霍梅尼在伊朗伊斯兰革命后上台并因埃及在一年前正式承认以色列而在1980年断绝了两国关系。埃及当时的总统安瓦尔·萨达特允许流亡国外的伊朗国王定居埃及，并在伊拉克与伊朗伊斯兰共和国的八年战争中对伊拉克予以支持。国王最后被安葬在开罗的一所清真寺。