Iran Says Resuming Relations With Saudi Arabia Will Facilitate Yemen Ceasefire

March 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Permanent Mission of Iran to the United Nations has indicated this Saturday that the resumption of relations with Saudi Arabia, ratified the day before by announcing the reopening of their respective embassies, will accelerate the achievement of a ceasefire in Yemen.

“It seems that the resumption of political relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia will accelerate the achievement of a ceasefire in Yemen, the initiation of the Yemeni people’s dialogue and the formation of an inclusive national government in this country,” reads a statement from the delegation picked up by the IRNA news agency.

Thus, the Iranian representative has indicated that relations between Tehran and Riyadh are important at the bilateral, regional and international level, being “positive” also for the Islamic world, according to the aforementioned agency.

In this sense, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has also expressed itself, which has referred to foreign policy and the neighborhood policy, stressing that it “trusts the positive role and implications of this agreement in the realization of mutual interests”, as well as well as other regional nations.

“With this momentum, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran shows that it is firmly determined to realize the interests of the Iranian people and the Muslim, friendly and neighboring nations and use the possibilities of the region to achieve and strengthen peace and stability, making the collective interests of the governments of the region a reality”, reads a statement from the Foreign Ministry.

This agreement, reached under the key mediation of the Chinese government, restores diplomatic relations between Tehran and Riyadh broken in 2016 after an attack on Saudi missions in Iran at the hands of protesters who demanded to stop the execution of the Shiite cleric Nimr al Nimr.

Both countries are now indirectly locked through the war in Yemen, where Riyadh supports the Yemeni government while Tehran does the same with the Huthi insurgency.