The acting foreign minister of Iran and Saudi Arabia's foreign minister met and exchanged views on the sidelines of the second day of the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting in Russia.

Iran's Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani in a telephone conversation with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan while appreciating Saudi Arabia's actions in providing facilities to Iranian pilgrims emphasized Iran's full readiness to cooperate with Saudi Arabia to hold this year's Hajj rituals as successfully as possible.

Press TV- A diplomat at Saudi Arabia's embassy in the United States has bitterly recounted how leading US daily The New York Times rejected an offer by the Saudi ambassador to Washington to publish an opinion piece in the paper but accepted an op-ed by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shortly afterwards. Writing in Arabic on his ...