Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein AmirAbdollahian says Tehran is determined to restore relations with Saudi Arabia but it seems Riyadh lacks the required readiness in this regard. "Saudi Arabia is still not ready to return to normal relations. We have the needed intention and will to normalize with Saudi Arabia. If such an intention is seen in the ...

The spokesman for Irans Foreign Ministry has suggested that representatives from the Islamic Republic would most likely launch a new round of talks with their Saudi counterparts in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad aimed at mending strained ties between the two nations. Our stance regarding Saudi Arabia and the process of negotiations between the ...

IranianPresident Ebrahim Raisi says that resuming and strengthening ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia benefits the security of the region, appreciating the Iraqi government for its mediating role in the talks. The president made the comments ata meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in Tehran. The initiatives offered and measures ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein AmirAbdollahian met with his Iraqi counterpart, Fuad Hussein, on Monday. Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, who traveled to Tehran on Monday morning, held a meeting with the Iranian foreign minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is the second visit of the Iraqi foreign ...

Unlike the previous five meetings between held between Iranian and Saudi officials, the next meeting between the two sides will be held at diplomatic level, an Iraqi official was quoted as saying. An Iraqi government source announced on Thursday evening that Iraq would host a meeting between Iranian and Saudi diplomats. Russia Today Arabic Language ...

Iranian Foreign Minister expressed Iran's satisfaction with Baghdad-mediated talks between Tehran and Saudi Arabia, saying that Iran's assessment of the recent round of talks is positive. Speaking in a telephone conversation, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussain discussed bilateral and regional ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi says talks in Baghdad between representatives from Iran and Saudi Arabia as part of a diplomatic process aimed at mending relations have made "remarkable progress"and entered advanced stages. Speaking at a press conference in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, Kadhimi said his country has played an important role ...

Iran plans to send a six-member consular delegation to Saudi Arabia during the obligatory Hajj. Owing to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' mission to conduct consular affairs to protect Iranian nationals in various parts of the world and protect their rights, Iran will send a delegation to that country. After two years of the religious ceremony ...

Iran has confirmed that itheld a fifth round of "positive" talks with Saudi Arabia in Baghdad on normalizing bilateral relations. The two countries started direct fence-mending talks last year, butIran announced a temporary halt in Marchafter Saudi Arabia executed 81 men in its biggest massexecution in decades. "The fifth round of talks between ...

Reports on Saturday said that Iran and Saudi Arabia held their fifth round of talks in Baghdad. The fifth round of talks between theIran and Saudi Arabia's diplomats was held in Baghdad. High-ranking Iraqi and Omani officials have played an important role in bringing the two sides together for this round. During the fifth round of the talks,...

Iran has reportedly suspended a fifth round of talks with Saudi Arabia, which was slated to be held in Iraq next week as part of a diplomatic process aimed at mending troubled ties between the two Persian Gulf neighbors. Nournews, which isaffiliatedto IransSupreme NationalSecurity Council, reported on Sunday that the Iranian side had unilaterally ...

Saudi Arabias foreign minister says rapprochement with Iran is possible as the kingdom is planningto schedule a fifth round of direct talks with the Islamic Republic. The kingdom is interested in a positive relationship with Iran including a relationship that delivers benefits for both of us. So we are not just interested in some political dtente,...

An Arabic source quoted the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Iraq as announcing thatthefifth round of talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia will be resumed soon. According to the source, Iraj Masjedisaid, "We have held four rounds of talks with the Saudi delegation in Baghdad so far, and these talks have made good progress." Iran and ...

Iran and Saudi Arabia are reviving bilateral relations severed five years ago over a host of issues and preparing to reopen embassies, an Iranian lawmaker says. In a post on his Twitter account on Saturday, a member of the Iranian Parliament's Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Jalil Rahimi Jahanabadi said the restoration of ties ...

Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh announced here on Monday that future round of talks between Tehran and Riyadh to be hosted by Baghdad is on the agenda. Despite disputed cases, sustainable relations and negotiations have been continued with effort and frankness, Khatibzadeh told reporters in his weekly press briefing ...

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, says his country is committed to substantivedialogue with Iran on addressing common concerns of regional countries, adding that Tehran and Riyadh plan to hold another round of talks soon. In an interview with France 24 published on Saturday, Saud said the four previous rounds of ...

Stating that Iran and Saudi Arabia have held 4 rounds of talks, Saeed Khatibzadeh said that bilateral and regional issues, especially the Persian Gulf and Yemen were among the most important issues discussed during the talks. Speaking in his weekly press conference, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh answered questions on a wide ...

There has been no meeting or phone call between Iran's Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani and Saudi officials in recent days, a source says. Nournews quoted an informed source of the SNSC secretariat on Wednesday that reports on a meeting or phone call between the SNSC secretary and authorities from Saudi Arabia ...

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that Iran has had regular contacts with Saudi Arabia in recent months, stressing that the two countries have had good talks on bilateral issues. In an interview with IRNA on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Khatibzadeh said that Iran and Saudi Arabia ...

Iran's Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedisays the Islamic Republic and Saudi Arabia have yet to mutually agree onthe time and location of their next round of negotiations. "The place and time of the fourth round of talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia have not been decided yet, and we will determine it by mutual agreement," Iraqi news outlets quoted ...