2023-04-17 10:33:43
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said, on Monday, that Iran had invited the King of Saudi Arabia to visit it, after the two countries agreed with Chinese mediation in March to end years-long hostility.
“The Iranian president (Ibrahim Raisi) sent an invitation to the Saudi monarch in response to an invitation he received from Riyadh,” Kanaani said in a televised press conference, according to Archyde.com.
It is noteworthy that Saudi Arabia received, on Wednesday, the Syrian Foreign Minister for the first time since the beginning of the conflict in his country and an Iranian diplomatic delegation, in a diplomatic move that falls within the framework of the Gulf Kingdom’s efforts to restore relations with the two allied countries, which were severed years ago, according to Agence France-Presse.
A few hours after Iranian media announced the arrival of a delegation from the Islamic Republic to Riyadh, the Kingdom announced that the Syrian Foreign Minister, Faisal al-Miqdad, had arrived in Jeddah, on a visit that was the first at this level since the outbreak of the conflict in Syria in 2011.
Kanani had previously announced in a statement that an Iranian technical delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, in preparation for the reopening of the Iranian embassy.
The Iranian delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia to pave the way for the reopening of Iranian representations, following a similar visit to Riyadh, after an agreement brokered by China last month, according to the official IRNA news agency.
It was the first official visit by Iranian officials to Saudi Arabia since the visit of officials of the Iranian Hajj Agency to the Kingdom in December 2019, according to a Saudi official, according to AFP.
The Iranian visit comes after the visit of a similar Saudi delegation to Tehran to discuss mechanisms for reopening the Kingdom’s representations in Iran, and after the meeting of the foreign ministers of the two countries in Beijing.
It also comes amid accelerated diplomatic moves that fall within the framework of the normalization of relations between the two most important regional powers in the Gulf, according to the sudden announcement of an agreement to resume relations between the two countries under Chinese auspices last month.
On March 10, Tehran and Riyadh announced that they had reached the agreement after a seven-year rupture, following the attack on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran over the execution of Saudi cleric Nimr al-Nimr, according to AFP.
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