Sudan reopens its embassy in Tehran after eight years without diplomatic relations

Jul 31. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Government of Sudan reopened its embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, eight years after its diplomatic break with Iran, thus completing the process to reestablish bilateral relations that began in October 2023 in a context marked by the need to increase their respective international support in the face of tensions in the Middle East for the Islamic Republic and clashes with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for Khartoum.

Sudan’s acting Foreign Minister Hussein Awad Ali has inaugurated the diplomatic headquarters in the Iranian capital, where he also attended the inauguration of the country’s new president, Masud Pezeshkian, according to the Sudanese news agency SUNA.

The two sides exchanged ambassadors last week. Sudan broke off relations with Iranian authorities in 2016 in protest against the attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran during demonstrations over the execution of a prominent Saudi Shiite cleric. Bahrain also announced the end of diplomatic ties, following in the footsteps of Saudi Arabia, which announced the day before that it was breaking off already tense relations with Iran.