According to Iranian state television, senior security officials from Iran and Saudi Arabia, who began negotiations with the mediation of Chinese officials in the Chinese capital Beijing on March 6, reached an agreement to normalize Tehran-Riyadh relations.
The agreement reached between Tehran and Riyadh after 7 years was announced in a joint statement by Iran, Saudi Arabia and China.
The statement said Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restart diplomatic relations within two months and to reopen embassies and representative offices mutually.
The foreign ministers of the two countries will meet soon to carry out the process and clarify the details.
Relations of Iran and Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia, 47 people, including Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, were executed on "terrorism" charges on 2nd January, 2016. Following successive statements by Iranian officials reacting to the executions, Saudi Arabia's Embassy in Tehran and consulate buildings in the city of Mashhad were set on fire by demonstrators in Iran. Diplomatic relations between the two countries, already tense due to the crisis in Yemen that began in March 2015, were completely severed.
Iranian and Saudi Arabian officials met in Baghdad in April 2021 for direct talks, and Iraqi-brokered talks continued afterwards.
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