IFP Exclusive

Official: Iran trying to re-open Embassy in Saudi Arabia before start of Hajj in June

A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official says Tehran is making efforts to re-open its Embassy in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh and its Consulate in Jeddah prior to the beginning of the Hajj pilgrimage season in Saudi Arabia in June.

Speaking to ISNA, Alireza Enayati, the director general of the Persian Gulf Department at the Foreign Ministry, said Tehran had set up two delegations which are each set to visit the Embassy in Riyadh and the Consulate in Jeddah by the end of this week.

He said the Iranian delegates will also visit the Iranian mission to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Saudi Arabia as well.

The official said a Saudi delegation similarly visited the kingdom’s Embassy in Tehran and will pay a visit to the Consulate in the northeastern city of Mashhad soon.

Riyadh will subsequently decide the re-opening of the missions after the Saudi delegates are back home, Enyati added.

Iran and Saudi Arabia reached a China-brokered reconciliation deal last month, after some seven years of severed relations. Under the deal, they agreed to re-open their embassies within two months.

Earlier, the foreign ministers of the two countries held a meeting in Beijing for talks on bilateral ties.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has invited President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran for a visit to kingdom. In turn, Tehran also plans to submit a similar invitation to the Saudi monarch.

IFP Editorial Staff

The IFP Editorial Staff is composed of dozens of skilled journalists, news-writers, and analysts whose works are edited and published by experienced editors specialized in Iran News. The editor of each IFP Service is responsible for the report published by the Iran Front Page (IFP) news website, and can be contacted through the ways mentioned in the "IFP Editorial Staff" section.

Share
Published by
IFP Editorial Staff

Recent Posts

E3 envoys summoned to Iran Foreign Ministry over UN meeting

Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the ambassadors of the UK, France and Germany in protest…

6 hours ago

Parviz, one of world’s oldest chimpanzees, dies at over 70

Parviz, Iran’s oldest chimpanzee and one of the world’s longest-living members of the species, has…

10 hours ago

Oil tanker fire contained at Bandar Imam Khomeini port

A fire broke out on an empty oil tanker anchored at Bandar Imam Khomeini’s inner…

10 hours ago

UN experts accuse Israel of genocidal acts and sexual violence during Gaza war

Israel carried out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during its…

10 hours ago

Syria’s interim President signs constitutional declaration for 5-year transitional period

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has inked a draft constitutional declaration on Thursday, establishing a…

10 hours ago

Envoy slams UNSC meeting as an ‘interference’ in Iran’s cooperation with IAEA

Iran has strongly objected to a United Nations Security Council meeting on the country’s nuclear…

12 hours ago