Iran to reopen embassy in Saudi Arabia after 7 years
Iran will reopen its embassy in Saudi Arabia this week, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday, several months after Iran and Saudi agreed to end years of antagonism under a Chinese-brokered deal.
In March, Tehran and Riyadh agreed to re-establish relations between the regional rivals whose hostility had threatened stability and security in the Middle East and helped fuel regional conflicts from Yemen to Syria.
'To implement the agreement .., Iran's embassy in Riyadh, our Consulate General in Jeddah and our office to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation will be officially reopened on Tuesday and Wednesday,' spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said.
Previous month, Tehran named Alireza Enayati as its ambassador to Saudi Arabia, which had severed relations in 2016 after its diplomatic missions in Tehran was stormed during a dispute over Sunni Muslim-ruled Riyadh's execution of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric.
The relationship had begun to deteriorate a year earlier after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates intervened in Yemen's war, where the Iran-aligned Houthi movement had ousted a Saudi-backed government and taken over the capital Sanaa.
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