Posted on 03/20/2023 8:44:22 AM PDT by Cronos
Saudi Arabia has reportedly invited Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for an official state visit after the two sides agreed to restore ties in a peace deal brokered by China.
Per the BBC, the invitation came in a letter from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, but that has yet to be confirmed by Saudi officials.
A senior Iranian official, Mohammad Jamshidi, tweeted about the invitation to visit the Saudi capital, Riyadh, saying Mr Raisi had welcomed it and "stressed Iran's readiness to expand co-operation".
Separately, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told reporters that the two countries had agreed to hold a meeting at foreign minister level, and that three possible locations had been proposed.
He did not name the locations, nor say when the meeting might take place.
The BBC's Middle East Editor, Sebastian Usher, says the recent improvement in bilateral relations, which came unexpectedly following days of talks brokered by China, appears to be building serious momentum.
Both have announced they will reopen embassies within two months and re-establish trade and security relations.
...Mr Amir-Abdollahian also said that Iran hoped steps would be made to improve ties with Bahrain, a close Saudi ally that followed Riyadh in severing diplomatic ties with Tehran in 2016.
"We hope that some obstacles between Iran and Bahrain will be removed and we will take basic steps to reopen the embassies," he said.
Bahrain has not responded to the comments, but earlier welcomed the Iran-Saudi agreement to restore diplomatic ties.
Iran has also expressed a willingness to resume or improve relations with other regional Arab rivals, including Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
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This can only be good for Israel as the rest of the middle east realizes that Israel is here to stay and the Palestinians aren't....
Saudi Arabia and Iran. Russia and China. Biden really is causing the world to unite - against us . . . .
This is actually pretty big.
Way to go, Joe, way to go.
“This is actually pretty big.“
It is and it’s also very bad. Joe did that too.
WHAT could possibly go wrong?
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DC is so dysfunctional, that the Sunni and Shia realized they had more in common with each other than they do with us. Anyone even having a passing understanding of Islam understands how insane that sounds. And to make it even more fun, the Chinese have spoken to both of them and now we have a Chinese version of the Abraham accords. Do you see has done more damage to the world economy than any other entity in human history. We literally have so many nations under sanctions now, that we have an effect created a giant part of the planet that Hass to carefully avoid any interaction with America and feel safer when they trade with each other. Incredible incompetence.
And the USA had nothing to do with it.
Stupid neocons and the DC deep-state have pissed away America's money and respect with their useless wars, arrogance and neo-marxist-style globalist politics.
There are dangerous power blocs being made to either oppose us or isolate us all over the planet. Before long, we will be an island nation with no friends and severely curtailed trade. WE will become North Korea, assuming we even survive as an intact nation because of our own problems at home.
watch for religious zealots..
The US dollar could lose Reserve Currency status.
SA could sell oil in Yuan instead of dollars
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A total waste of Trump’s efforts in the middle east...thanks, Brandon.
Build Back Better, means destroying, first.
So goes the best chance in decades for a lasting peace in the Middle East.
The Death to America Mullahs playing nice for a bit is probably just prep for Brandon to give away the store to Iran.
Could have used Saddam right about now, he hated both.
Which is why the Bushes wanted him dead, perhaps. I never bought into that BS story about score-settling in 2003, and was dubious about the Al-Qaida connections but went along like a good little fascist drone.
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