Saudi Arabia’s embassy resumes operation in Tehran: Report
The embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran has restarted its activities months after the two countries agreed to restore their diplomatic relations which had been severed for years.
Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in Tehran has officials restarted its activities since Sunday, IRNA quoted an informed source at the Iranian Foreign Ministry as saying.
This comes two months after Iran also resumed its activities in its embassy in Saudi Arabia.
Iran officially reopened its embassy in Saudi Arabia on June 6 during a ceremony which was held inside the embassy’s compound with dozens of diplomats and officials attending the reopening of the diplomatic mission for the first time in seven years.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs Alireza Bikdeli, who attended the ceremony, said, “We consider today an important day in the relations between Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia”. “The region will move Inshallah (God willing) towards greater cooperation and convergence to achieve stability, prosperity and progress,” Bikdeli said in a speech during the
ceremony.
In 2016, Riyadh cut its diplomatic relations with Tehran after Iranian protesters, angry at the execution of a Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia, stormed its embassy. However, a Chinese-brokered agreement reached between the two regional heavyweights in March, ended a seven-year rupture of ties between the two Persian Gulf states.
The thaw between Tehran and Riyadh was a major turning point for the region. In has resulted in reestablishment of relations between many countries in the Middle East
region.