March 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Husein Amir Abdolahian, and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, have agreed to meet during the month of Ramadan, in their first meeting to resume ties between the two countries.
Both politicians have talked during a telephone call about the progress in bilateral relations between Tehran and Riyadh, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA.
The governments of these countries ratified on March 10 the resumption of their diplomatic relations with an agreement to reopen their respective embassies, in a new advance in the bilateral normalization process between the two great enemies of the region.
Tehran and Riyadh severed diplomatic relations in 2016 following an attack on Saudi missions in Iran by protesters calling for a halt to the execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr and are now locked indirectly through the war in Yemen, where Riyadh backs the Yemeni government while Tehran does the same with the Huthi insurgency.
