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Not the Onion: <\/strong>The moderately popular House of Representatives may put the fate of the Tiran and Sanafir handover agreement in the public\u2019s hands through a popular referendum, deputy chair of the House Defense Committee Yehia Kedwani tells Al Shorouk<\/a>. Odds of this happening: Roughly on par with those of Cairo being buried under a blizzard this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not the Onion: The moderately popular House of Representatives may put the fate of the Tiran and Sanafir handover agreement in the public\u2019s hands through a popular referendum, deputy chair of the House Defense Committee Yehia Kedwani tells Al Shorouk. Odds of this happening: Roughly on par with those of Cairo being buried under a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[72,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-647084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"f2902427-f6c9-4ef0-8ce3-0dd7eed62f50","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"a29fc35a-951b-4a68-9382-016c5d9a039c","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[647069],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nTiran and Sanafir handover agreement may be put to popular referendum - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/05\/02\/tiran-and-sanafir-handover-agreement-may-be-put-to-popular-referendum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tiran and Sanafir handover agreement may be put to popular referendum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not the Onion: The moderately popular House of Representatives may put the fate of the Tiran and Sanafir handover agreement in the public\u2019s hands through a popular referendum, deputy chair of the House Defense Committee Yehia Kedwani tells Al Shorouk. 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