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Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat

Anwar Al Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination on 6 October 1981.

Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers group that overthrew the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he succeeded in 1970.

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Sadat in prison

Year 1941
Sadat was jailed for the first time in the course of his military service, due to repeated meetings with Aziz Pasha El Masry who asked Sadat to help him flee to Iraq.

When released , he was demanded by the military investigations to discontinue contact with Aziz El Masry for the latter's pro-Axis trends; however Sadat ignored this warning and hence was jailed again in February 1942.

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Egypt's Sadat Professional Career

Following his release, he worked as an editor in the weekly Almosawer until December 1948.

In 1949, he separated from his first wife and proposed to Ms Jehan Safwat Raouf. During the period between his engagement and the marriage, he operated in a private business with his friend Hassan Ezzat.

In 1950, Sadat was reinstated in the military with the help of his friend Youssef Rashad, King Farouk's private physician.

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Sadat as a president of Egypt

In December 1969, Egypt's Sadat was reappointed as vice president again.
He served as the President of Egypt for 11 years, in the course of which he took several crucial decisions that greatly affected the whole world.

Some of them underlined Sadat's stead- fastness in facing the events and his excessive flexibility in making Egypt evade the grave perils.
To do this, he set up a decision-taking strategy on the basis of a historical rule that had always been attributed to him: "Nothing is right but the right".

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Egypt's Sadat and Shah of Iran relationship

Before the Islamic revolution of Iran in 1979, the relationship between Tehran and Cairo was so friendly that the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, called Sadat his "dear brother".


When the Shah exiled from Iran he refuged to Egyptian president Sadat, and spent the last days of his life near Sadat in Egypt. Meanwhile, Egypt's Sadat ordered to bury the shah's dead body in Al-Rifai Mosque and Urged the Egyptians to come to his funeral to respect him.

The assassination of a War and Peace Man

On 6 October 1981, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated during the annual 6th October 1973 victory parade in Cairo.

Egypt's President Anwar Al Sadat

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