Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Faysala Bin Farhan Tehran “in the near future”.
According to the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Nasser, the visit is organized as part of the efforts to resume diplomatic relations between Tehran and Riyadh.
The ganges recalled that seven years later Iran resumed the work of the embassy in Riyadh and the Consulate General in Gidd. The opening of the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran is also expected in the near future, said the representative of the Foreign Ministry.
According to the gan, in the near future a visit to the Foreign Minister of the kingdom of Faysal Bin Farhan to Tehran at the invitation of the Iranian colleague, Hussein Amir Abdollahiyan, is expected. The Saudi Minister will take part in the opening of the country’s embassy in Tehran, he said.
March 10 Tehran and Riyadh agreed to restore diplomatic relations and resume the work of embassies within two months.
The crisis in Iranian-Saudi relations erupted on January 2, 2016, when 47 people were executed in Saudi Arabia on charges of terrorism, including the famous Shiite religious figure Al-Nimer.
In response, the demonstrators in Iran set fire to the embassy of Saudi Arabia and the buildings of the Saudi consulate in Mesheda.
Diplomatic relations between the two countries, which were already tense due to the crisis in Yemen, which began in March 2015, were completely interrupted.