Iran Press/ Iran News: The foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan, met and discussed the issues of mutual interests.
It has been the first visit by the Saudi foreign minister to Tehran since the bilateral ties soured back in 2016.
Earlier, some sources had raised the possibility that Saudi Arabia will reopen its embassy in Tehran during bin Farhan’s visit to Iran.
Iran reopened its embassy in Riyadh on June 6 and its consulate general and representative office in Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah on June 7.
On March 10, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to reestablish diplomatic ties after three days of intensive talks brokered by China.
Prior to the March 10 agreement, Iraq and Oman had hosted several rounds of talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran after some students attacked the country’s embassy in Tehran in January 2016 in protest to the execution of opposition Shia cleric Nimr Baqir al-Nim and 46 other dissidents.
The attack on the embassy was condemned by top Iranian officials, including Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
Following the March 10 agreement, Iran and Saudi Arabia issued a joint statement in which the sides agreed to respect each other’s national sovereignty and avoid any kind of interference.
They also agreed to implement a security cooperation agreement signed in April 2001 and another accord reached in May 1998 to boost economic, commercial, investment, technical, scientific, cultural, sports, and youth affairs cooperation.
Since deciding to reestablish ties, the Saudi foreign minister and his Iranian counterpart Amir-Abdollahian have met twice: first in Beijing on April 10 and then in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 2. The Saturday meeting will be the third in two months.
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