Iran to Reopen Embassy in Saudi Arabia This Week

On Monday, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Iranian embassy in Saudi Arabia will open tomorrow, Tuesday, after 3 months have passed since the agreement that resumed the severed relations between the two countries.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani mentioned that the Iranian embassy and consulate will be opened in Riyadh and Jeddah, adding that Iran's permanent representation in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation will be opened the next Tuesday and Wednesday.

A Saudi source told AFP that the reopening of the Iranian embassy would take place in the presence of the designated Iranian ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Last month, the state-run English-language newspaper Iran Daily reported that Tehran had “appointed high-ranking diplomat Ali Reza Enayati as the new ambassador to Saudi Arabia.” However, this appointment was not officially announced by the Foreign Ministry.

This year on March 10, Iran and Saudi Arabia reached an agreement sponsored by China to reopen their embassies and implement economic and security cooperation agreements signed more than twenty years ago.

President Ibrahim Raisi received an invitation to visit Saudi Arabia, according to Tehran, while Iran announced that it had invited Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz to visit Iran.