A top Iranian diplomat said on Thursday that he had no comment on a possible presidential run by Egypt’s military chief, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.

Iran's charge d'affaires in Cairo, Mujtaba Amani, told Egyptian state news agency MENA that Iran has no place to intervene in Egypt's internal affairs.

"We don't interfere in Egypt's internal affairs or presidential elections," he said.

Amani said that Iran has a vested interest in the presence of a strong Egypt in the region, in relation to the presence of Israel.

Strategic experts stress the importance of mutual cooperation between Iran and Egypt, Amani said.

He added that Iran and Egypt are important powers in the region and stressed that cooperation and not aid is what Iran advocates, as aid entails conditions.

The diplomat said that he had sought closer ties with Egypt during the rule of Hosni Mubarak, in 2011 under the Supreme Council of Armed Forces, during the presidency of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi, and under current President Adly Mansour.

Egypt's official ties with Iran were cut by former Egyptian president Anwar El-Sadat after Iran’s 1979 revolution. Egypt gave refuge to Iran's fleeing monarch Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who died on Egyptian soil.

During Morsi's term, hopes of a rapprochement between the two countries rose as the Egyptian president attended the Non-Aligned Movement conference held in Tehran in August 2012. Touristic activity between the two countries was resumed after decades of closure. Some officially sponsored visits of Iranians to Egyptian religious sites sparked protests by ultra-conservative Sunni Egyptian religious groups.

Iran protested Morsi's overthrow in July 2013 by the Egyptian military after mass protests against him.

Shortly after Morsi's ouster, Egypt shut down tourism activities with Iran.

Amani insisted that despite the halt in tourism, Iran is adamant to keep doors open for cooperation.