TEHRAN, Apr 4 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, has accepted an invitation from King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, for a visit to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, Iran’s first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber confirmed, yesterday.
Mokhber made the remarks, when asked to respond to the Saudi King’s invitation to Raisi of visiting Riyadh, semi-official Mehr news agency, reported.
The move followed the China-brokered talks in Beijing in early March, during which Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopen embassies and missions within two months.
On Mar 19, Mohammad Jamshidi, the Iranian president’s deputy chief of staff for political affairs, tweeted that, the Saudi king had written the Iranian president an invitation letter to visit Riyadh.
Commenting on Iran’s ties with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states in the region, Mokhber said, the improvement of relations with regional countries has been among the major strategies pursued by the Raisi administration since the president took office.– NNN-IRNA
