Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi "welcomed" today, Sunday, an invitation from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz to visit the country, an Iranian official said.
"In a letter to President Raisi... the King of Saudi Arabia welcomed the deal between the two brotherly countries, [and] invited him to Riyadh," Mohammad Jamshidi, the Iranian president's deputy chief of staff for political affairs, wrote on Twitter.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian also mentioned Sunday that Tehran had proposed three locations for the meeting with his Saudi counterpart.
"An agreement was reached two months ago for Iranian and Bahraini technical delegations to visit the embassies of the two countries," he said.
"We hope that some obstacles between Iran and Bahrain will be removed and we will take basic steps to reopen the embassies."
Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restore relations and reopen embassies on March 10 in a deal brokered by China.
The two countries have been vying for supremacy in the Middle East for many years, backing rival factions in the wars in Yemen and Syria.
Saudi Arabia officially severed ties with Iran in 2016 after its embassy in Tehran was stormed over Riyadh's execution of a Shiite cleric.
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