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Sudan, Iran trade ambassadors after eight-year hiatus
Sudan and Iran agreed last October to resume diplomatic relations. The Sudanese government announced in a statement that Burhan had received Tehran’s new ambassador Hassan Shah Hosseini in Port Sudan.
The Red Sea city has become Sudan’s de facto seat of government since Khartoum became wracked by fighting.
This is “the beginning of a new phase in the course of bilateral relations between the two countries,” foreign ministry undersecretary Hussein al-Amin said as Burhan sent off Sudan’s new ambassador to Iran, Abdelaziz Hassan Saleh.
Sudan broke off relations with Iran in 2016 in a show of solidarity with Saudi Arabia, after the kingdom’s embassy in Tehran was attacked following the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia cleric.
Several Saudi allies in the region also cut ties with Iran at the time.
In March 2023, however, Riyadh and Tehran announced the restoration of their relations following an agreement brokered by China.
Iran has since moved to cement or restore relations with neighboring Arab countries.