The countries are in the first stage of restoring diplomatic relations, the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry asserted.
Three Iranian diplomatic missions were reopened in Saudi Arabia. The Anadolu agency reported this on May 1, citing the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Nasser Kanani.
“Three Iranian missions in Riyadh and Jeddah have started working at an early stage,” the diplomat said, without specifying their format.
Kanani added that countries are in the early stages of reopening their diplomatic missions and implementation activities are being carried out rapidly.
It can be recalled that on March 10, Tehran and Riyadh agreed to resume diplomatic relations and resume the work of embassies for two months. Representatives of the two countries held talks in Beijing for several days, as a result of which a tripartite statement was prepared.
Relations between Riyadh and Tehran escalated in March 2015 with the start of a military operation by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen against Ansar Allah (Houthis).
In 2016, Iran and Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties after the Saudis executed prominent Shia cleric Ayatollah Nimr al-Nimr.
Source: korrespondent
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